Indian Knife!!

[Daighbc]

I found this amazing Wadlow Point. I believe this is a Wadlow but any other advice would be great! Found in Illinois.

 

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[DownNDirty]

Looks like a chopper-used for dressing animal kills

 

[Vldetecting]

Wow, that's an amazing find. Awesome condition and complete!

 

[hbru123]

Amazing find! Congrats!!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Awesome find, congratulations!

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Doesn't look like a Wadlow, looks more like a paleolithic hand axe.

A wadlow is a large unnotched blade that is typically a straight base. straight blade edges and acute distal end. It may have a recovered or convex edge and the basal edge may be straight, conclave or convex.

Here is a sample of a wadlow.





Moving it to our Indian artifact forum to get more opinions.

 

[Steve in PA]

Doesn't look like a Wadlow, looks more like a paleolithic hand axe.

A wadlow is a large unnotched blade that is typically a straight base. straight blade edges and acute distal end. It may have a recovered or convex edge and the basal edge may be straight, conclave or convex.

Here is a sample of a wadlow.

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Moving it to our Indian artifact forum to get more opinions.

Could the OP's piece also be a pre-form?

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Always possible it is a preform, I personally doubt it is wadlow preform. I have several hand axed/choppers that look like that.

 

[arrow86]

Nice knife

 

[ToddsPoint]

Looks like a Burlington flint biface that was rejected because of the cracks. Fatal flaws that kept the Indian from proceeding. Gary

 

[Rookster]

Congrats. Nice find.

 

[Tnmountains]

Preform not finished for one reason or another but a beautiful artifact with super large reduction flakes and will display very well indeed.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Congrats on a very nice find.

 

[monsterrack]

Nice find and I have to along with the preform idea also. You can see the large reduction flakes and areas that were never struck. JMO the cracks did not cause a problem with the preform because the flakes carried very well through and across them, it just never got finished or could have been from a stash of preforms. Cool find anyway you look at it.