Heartbreak,Knife and ?

DemonCatSpaceStar · Aug 19, 2017

Hello, got to the river for a couple hours, hit a feeder creek & followed foot prints but right away found this heartbreaker drill & what I'm calling a tang knife? (input would be nice :laughing7:

) & then this not-so-pretty-i-dont-know? :icon_scratch:

Thanks for looking,

8-)

redbeardrelics · Aug 20, 2017

All nice artifacts there ! I would call your tang knife a uniface scraper or blade made off a flake, or it could be called a re-touched flake, but it probably has too much nice edge work to just be considered re-touched. The last larger piece looks to me like they were working to thin it down into a biface, when too large of a chunk came off that one side and they probably rejected it, and started another? That looks like a nice feeder creek to keep an eye on, especially since you might have some competition there? HH

rock · Aug 21, 2017

Flake knife and the last one could be a preform or a tool with a spokeshave on it. With the footprints its probably why you didnt find any points. I know some who wont bend over unless they are whole points.

CarsonRReese · Aug 29, 2017

That last one looks an awful lot like one that I found!

Wampum · Aug 29, 2017

It always amazes me how many years these can stay in the ground intact. Heartbreakers... Nuff said I know your pain. I got lucky the other day with two 100%ers no brokes.

Any pottery there? I'm guessing early woodland.

DemonCatSpaceStar · Aug 31, 2017

Wampum said:
It always amazes me how many years these can stay in the ground intact. Heartbreakers... Nuff said I know your pain. I got lucky the other day with two 100%ers no brokes.

Any pottery there? I'm guessing early woodland.

yeah, heres a piece I found some time ago on the river :-)

DemonCatSpaceStar · Sep 1, 2017

CarsonRReese said:
That last one looks an awful lot like one that I found!

I may be wrong but I'm thinking it/they may be a small Axe/hatchet/tool? If you hold it between two fingers at the hafted area at the base then turn it so your looking at the big end.Imagine a stick hafted to it. Like a modern day hammer.