Just a broken rock?

[IMAUDIGGER]

You can probably see where I’m going with this...
I’m just not sure. Any opinions? Found N. Cal. Near an encampment among flakes.
Flattish on one side and bi-faced on the other.


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Would have just blended in with other chunks of quartz except for the unusual shaped tip. I don’t want to jump to conclusions. It does feel sharp and sure looks like it may have been worked on that right side. It’s just so small and difficult to see with the naked eye. Sorry about the nasty fingernail.

Why can’t I just find 3/4 groove axes or something obvious instead of rocks that require imagination and magnifaction?

 

[Madmox]

That is a weird natural shear line... could be but I’ve never found anything NA so I’m the wrong person to make judgements. Seems reasonable that at may be. Certainly more than a lot of the rocks we see around here.

 

[H.P.]

Cheer up Digger,, sometimes we gotta pay dues in advance, but sooner or later we get the goods.

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

I was thinking it was a “graver” maybe.

I’m always walking across a picked over site and now looking at every out of place stone closely.

 

[unclemac]

i think yours is just a rock but there are some pretty ugly points out there, I have found a few myself that look a lot like that one.

 

[Tdog]

I'll go with broken rock on that one.

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

Thanks for the look anyway.

 

[uniface]

Seems plausible that it was, FWIW.

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

Or could have been even if natural.