Help with type?

[Pbarker1492]

Hi all
Can you help me with this? Any idea on type?
It’s from Texas. Tip has been poorly restored just to give it shape.
Thanks

 

[Garscale]

This is the comment I was going by.

I see that now.

 

[uniface]

Grinding is last step before hafting.

FWIW, though, any time edges are on the thin side, striking platforms are ground before flakes are detached using them -- otherwise the struck edges would splinter.

Was waiting for some knapper to point this out.

 

[Pbarker1492]

Uniface
See the sides with the 3 base flakes removed, would the base need to be ground before those are removed? Perhaps it was ground at one point?

 

[Pbarker1492]

Sorry uniface-here is the pic. Does it look like some of the base was removed after the flakes were removed? Seems pretty clean removals? Wonder if the other side removed a bit more base when the two side flakes were removed?

 

[uniface]

I could take a run at it, but there are several people here with pretty extensive experience doing replication.

They can chime in any time they care to.

 

[uniface]

Very strange. Usually we have people falling over each other, rushing to post on stuff they're familiar with (to some degree). This time, crickets. Maybe it's because we're off the title topic by now so it's under the radar.

Anyhow: my old computer is unable to access this, but the description sounds right --
https://static.secure.website/wscfus/3780471/uploads/BasicConcepts.pdf

Homework you could have done yourself

Add later" a sentence Charl quotes in the incised pebble thread: "While doing the percussion work we have to abrade the edge of the point frequently."

 

[Pbarker1492]

My guess is that this one has many similarities to other Paleo points and it’s difficult to distinguish them. Plainview, midland, ango. Etc.
In taking with some off line the feedback I got was it was a Clovis, albeit not the usual style-possibly set up to reflute and possibly resharpened. It’s too thick for midland, hafting region not right for Folsom. One idea was Plainfield but earlier basal thinning flakes on one side rules out that technology. It resembles an Ango, but the base is wrong. It has a lot of similarities to Plano pieces but Clovis most likely. It’s 12mm thick and has at least 2 basal percussion thinning flakes that were covered by a lateral scar-perhaps from a later culture. That’s my guess and I’m sticking to it

 

[Garscale]

My guess is that this one has many similarities to other Paleo points and it’s difficult to distinguish them. Plainview, midland, ango. Etc.
In taking with some off line the feedback I got was it was a Clovis, albeit not the usual style-possibly set up to reflute and possibly resharpened. It’s too thick for midland, hafting region not right for Folsom. One idea was Plainfield but earlier basal thinning flakes on one side rules out that technology. It resembles an Ango, but the base is wrong. It has a lot of similarities to Plano pieces but Clovis most likely. It’s 12mm thick and has at least 2 basal percussion thinning flakes that were covered by a lateral scar-perhaps from a later culture. That’s my guess and I’m sticking to it

You and I agree perfectly that we don't know what it is. I do also agree most likely Clovis but here are problems with that too