Hammer stone?

[cterry3100]

Found in context with cores, littered with flakes, etc. Northeast Alabama, year-round Spring site.

 

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[ptsofnc]

You'll get both yes and no opinions. Doesn't look like a hammerstone, but does appear to be fractured river cobble. Fractured by the hand of man or by nature...who knows? But you say found at a spring site littered with flakes and blade core. Keep looking. If the site is a little above the surrounding area, it is likely the cobble didn't roll up hill where you found it.

 

[PaDirtDigger]

You'll get both yes and no opinions. Doesn't look like a hammerstone, but does appear to be fractured river cobble. Fractured by the hand of man or by nature...who knows? But you say found at a spring site littered with flakes and blade core. Keep looking. If the site is a little above the surrounding area, it is likely the cobble didn't roll up hill where you found it.

You won't get a better reply that this one...

 

[monsterrack]

What they said

 

[Wes213]

Found in context with cores, littered with flakes, etc. Northeast Alabama, year-round Spring site.View attachment 1342987View attachment 1342988View attachment 1342989

I my neck of the woods it seemed like they where often knocking off the sides of Quartz river rocks and using them to make their spears and tools. I think the natural oval shape played to their advantage. When ever I find those split Quartz river rocks, points are always near by.

 

[cterry3100]

Thanks for the responses. What really caught my eye is that instead of a clean fracture, it seems to have been heavily pecked as though it was used to pound.

 

[rock]

1 of those rocks you will never know for sure.