Large scraper

[painterx7]

I have been working 13 hr days no time to hunt so walked to this creek on lunch break and I found this piece

 

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[GatorBoy]

Wish I could find stuff like that on lunch break.. nice!
I've been busy too..when not working I've been scouring the shipwreck beaches here.. 12' seas taking the beaches away... I love it!

 

[painterx7]

I need some flooding rains to get these leaves out of the way haha I hope you find some good stuff ... I will have work caught up by Sunday and get back to normal hrs I hope

 

[GatorBoy]

Bring a blower hehe

 

[old digger]

That's a big scraper/chopper you found there! Nice!

 

[old digger]

Wish I could find stuff like that on lunch break.. nice!
I've been busy too..when not working I've been scouring the shipwreck beaches here.. 12' seas taking the beaches away... I love it!

Lucky You! Hope you find ome of that Spanish gold!

 

[GatorBoy]

Thanks.. got silver from this already

 

[NC field hunter]

Nice scraper. I think I have found one similar. Not the most common pieces!

 

[painterx7]

Thanks digger and NC they are kinda rare I've only found 4 or 5 of them you been workin a bunch NC ?

 

[quito]

Cool Piece! I love those larger tools!

 

[rock]

I need some flooding rains to get these leaves out of the way haha I hope you find some good stuff ... I will have work caught up by Sunday and get back to normal hrs I hope

So IYO do you feel the ones with that wavy flaking on the sides are actual tools used everyday or do you think they are preforms waiting to be finished? I find them with that wavy flaking at times but if they were actually used on a daily basis they will have the tiny secondary flaking on the edges. Ill take them all day long like the ones you posted if possible but I was trying to get your feelings on the piece. Im just not real sure they used them unless the tiny flaking was put on them.

 

[GatorBoy]

The strikes to the piece came from the "flat" side facing up.... dropping flakes from the bottom. It looks like it was being thinned and prepared as a blank to me.
It also looks like the piece kept hinging instead of dropping large thinning flakes from the bottom.
IMHO it was likely given up on.
It may have seen use as it is but without a finished edge I only see reduction.
www.ou.edu/cas/archsur/OKArtifacts/preform.htm

 

[monsterrack]

It looks to be something they tried to work but it did not wont to work for them. I agree with Gator, but it is still a cool find

 

[fongu]

Nice find on your lunch break.

 

[painterx7]

It has a slight polish in a couple areas here are some pics I'm thinking chopper

 

[GatorBoy]

It's a good size spall that's for sure.the first photo shows several platforms set up for further work.
Check out the big concave part..that's the mirror image of one large cone of percussion that was created on the mother stone from a single impact.
You have to hit the material pretty hard to make one that size.
I can't see what polish your talking about.. just the slick surface of the side of the flake that was attached to the host stone.