Fluting success

[painterx7]

Found this going through my buckets don't know how I missed it

 

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[GatorBoy]

Now that...looks like one oooold end scraper...Mabey a knife.
Nice!

 

[painterx7]

Thanks gator !!!

 

[ncnurseryman]

Any ideas why the middle is fluted like that? Its a nice scraper.

 

[painterx7]

Yes for attaching a handle and thankyou

 

[painterx7]

Here are a couple more nice pieces

 

[dbag1969]

Yes for attaching a handle and thankyou

I would concur that it was intentionally fluted for hafting. Is the other side fluted also?

 

[painterx7]

No that one just fluted on one side nice English "concur" I like that

 

[GatorBoy]

The last piece looks like it could be another end scraper.
The first one is a big flake with what's called a cone of percussion on it..the second piece is a piece of material that had a big flake removed probably while it was still part of the mother stone.
The first two are just debitage.

 

[dbag1969]

No that one just fluted on one side nice English "concur" I like that

Lol....I try to use some of that book learning now and then...

 

[Twitch]

All nice artifacts, but I don't think any of them are 'fluted' in the same sense that the terming fluting is used when applied to a 'fluted' point. I think they're all thinning flakes that terminated midway across the piece but I doubt that they were produced by the same mechanics as the flutes in fluted points. Just my useless 2 cents.

 

[GatorBoy]

Just posting what is C.O.A.ed by Davis as a paleo square knife for a look.

 

[painterx7]

Material has a lot to do with what the "flute " looks like ... But I can also see how they were just there

 

[GatorBoy]

Sorry but no fluting on that one just thining flake removed.. I'm not sure what that last one is other than an odd broken piece of material.

 

[painterx7]

Just posting what is C.O.A.ed as a paleo square knife by a big name for a look.

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That's prob razor thin too

 

[painterx7]

Those are just material pictures that is one flake

 

[GatorBoy]

Do you see the ripples in that concave part of that first piece you just posted? That is from one blow to the stone.
The piece that came out would be considered a cone of percussion.
It's a cool thing that happens to good flint... it reminds me of how water reacts when a stone is dropped into it creating a space that comes back together and shoots upward.

 

[painterx7]

Check this out one single flake makes a beautiful Cumberland

 

[GatorBoy]

A whole different process was used to create that on a Cumberland I belive.
I'm pretty sure the flute was created running almost completely off both ends before the other side had even been pressure flaked. then the point was finished around the flute... someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[painterx7]

Are you thinking that they wouldn't of made a point out of this piece with a little pressure flaking