How can you tell if worked or not

[Nathan W]

Looks interesting but is it worked or struck?

 

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[Treasure_Hunter]

No signs of being worked, no signs of being flaked or ground in pictures.

 

[tamrock]

Not anything done by the hand of man imo.

 

[Nathan W]

No signs of being worked, no signs of being flaked or ground in pictures.

Ok just trying to “see” that

 

[Nathan W]

Not anything done by the hand of man imo.

Ok just trying to “see” thst

 

[tamrock]

Ok just trying to “see” thst

It is the shape and color you want to adjust your eyes to focus on. I would've most likely bent down and picked it up for closer inspection.

 

[Nathan W]

Than how is this worked I’m trying to see

 

[Blackfoot58]

 

[Buckleberry]

Than how is this worked I’m trying to see

Hard to see from one picture, but that doesn't look worked either.

 

[Nathan W]

Hard to see from one picture, but that doesn't look worked either.

I was told on here it was a flake but I’m trying to look for signs going forward

 

[antmike915]

Both look like natural stone too me. Here is a picture of what I look for details of work (circled).

 

[RGINN]

Best thing to do is kinda look over how arrowheads and such were made, then study some of the artifacts posted on here. I thought that second one you posted might be a knocked off flake, not used for anything, just debitage. Which might be an indicator to look a little closer around where you found it.

 

[Older The Better]

Working with one picture is tricky but assuming the back is flat, then these would be previous removals so as part of the core red white blue green and yellow were other flakes knocked off then came this one. classic signs of a flake, the other piece doesn’t really show any purposeful removals and seems to be too chunky to be a flake. but most pics are also out of focus

 

[Nathan W]

Best thing to do is kinda look over how arrowheads and such were made, then study some of the artifacts posted on here. I thought that second one you posted might be a knocked off flake, not used for anything, just debitage. Which might be an indicator to look a little closer around where you found it.

I’m going back where I found it to scan again