Is This A Tool?

[DaChief]

O.K. Guys and Gals,

I am new at this so be kind.

I am hoping to hear this is a tool but prepared for it not to be. Found near a site that was occupied for about 500 years or so according to Archeologist that studied the area.

This rock tool resembles what I have been seeing on the internet described as Hammerstones. It has a groove in it that a finger fits perfectly in. If you hold it as I am in the photo with my hand, your finger fits the groove perfectly. The groove starts on top and runs down one side. The other end is perfectly flat.

The other two items are possible fossils that were found in the same area. One looks like a tooth protruding from a portion of jaw bone and the other looks like a portion of a bone.

Let me know what you think. Keeping my fingers crossed.

DaChief

 

[GL]

Re: Tool? Tooth? Bone?

The top one looks man made for sure.

 

[jamey]

one looks like a sharks tooth,good finds thanks for posting jamey

 

[Th3rty7]

sure looks like a grinding / sharpening stone tool to me, the smaller, more narrow groove was probably used to sharpen or hone bone tools. nice find

 

[DaChief]

Thanks for the replies. That has given me some encouragement to go again this weekend.

I have done more research of the area and I have identified a bottleneck area where the creek forms a horseshoe bend not far from where the populated area was. I am going to focus on that bottleneck because the inhabitants would have surely used that narrow area a ton to go into and out of the area that they lived. Their village would have been in the bottom of the bottle if you can imagine a land mass shaped like a bottle from the creek. The only way out without crossing water was to go through the bottleneck. The creek in that bottleneck should produce something.

Hopefully with two full days to search, I can manage something really good.

Thanks Again,

DaChief

 

[Airborne80]

I may be way off but the one looks like an Alt-Alt.... a devise used for throwing spears. In any case its a great find and thanks for sharing. believe me, someone here will know exactly what it is.

 

[RGINN]

Could be an Atl-Atl weight. I can't see how it was attached. In Oklahoma we would find grooved loaf shaped pieces of stone. These were used to smooth and straighten arrow shafts, and you used two of them.