Flute channel?

[Older The Better]

Was poking around in my broke stash, noticed this, what are the odds I’m looking at a fluted point? I know there’s not a lot there but maybe enough to make a call.

 

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[TundraPlugger]

Looks like the flute is coming from the tip....probably an impact fracture in my opinion

 

[tomclark]

...or could have been a base thinning attempt. The blade work and edgework look old

 

[Quartzite Keith]

Having made (and broken!) a great many fluted points, it does look consistent with a preform that blew up when the first face was fluted.

 

[Older The Better]

Hmmm mixed results haha thanks for the replies, maybe it’s just in my mind from seeing the Folsom posts but it seemed to have similar characteristics on the one side. Don’t think I’d call it one though.

 

[H.P.]

Can’t technically call it a flute without a hinge fracture, without that it’s thinning.