is this a spoke shave or? uniface?

[larson1951]

what and how old would uniface or any one else think regarding this piece?

 

[uniface]

It's nice, whatever it is, even with the fire pop

From these pictures and the one in the other thread, a uniface blade.

Very nice !

 

[larson1951]

here are a few more images
I have never saved any thing like this before
now you are showing me something new

 

[uniface]

 

[joshuaream]

Larson,

Have you found other pieces of that material? Sometimes a sign of a different aged tool is the use different material. i.e. If the later plains indians that made most of what you find used all those nicer materials for scrapers, tools and points, and assuming they had access to more of it, why would they use that grainy, hard to knap material? It might be something earlier or later (in your case, I'd say earlier) and they didn't have access or know about other deposits.

 

[uniface]

An excellent point

Well, for one thing, it was clearly made from a core from which blades (or blade-like flakes) were being removed from both ends.

If I remember from when he's written, the material looks like what he's ID'd as silicified silt, which shows up in other artifacts he's posted.

From the relatively small size, it would seem to fit into the Hopewell era practice.

But the edge working isn't typical of it.

Since Hopewell in general is usually described as a set of basic ideas that were adopted by people more or less everywhere without changing their basic lifeways much, maybe this was a local practice ? (Local = regional).

Interesting, however it turns out.

 

[pickaway]

The first pic if I found it,I would call it a uniface blade...Nice find...