Long day

[BobGuy]

It was a long day in the creek and this is what I have to show for it. I believe this is a bladelete but I'm not sure. It could be just a rock but I have four other smaller pieces that look just like this. It does have nice colors though!

 

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[rock]

Well lets see the other ones with it to compare. Might be a core or some call them spalls. If there is secondary flaking on the sides or just the end it could be a scraper or a knife. Check and let us know. Looks to be uni faced like a scraper. Nice find and it has some nice color.

 

[BobGuy]

These are the others that I have found at two separate field sites. I didn't think they were anything until I did some research on hopewell bladeletes and realized they looked very similar. I can't tell for sure on the big one I found today though. I don't know exactly what secondary flaking is but I can't tell if any additional work was done to the ends or side of the biggest one.

 

[rock]

Ill show you an example of secondary flaking. Some tools were made for fast cutting and there isnt allot of work put into them like the flaking on the top sides. I do find tools where they removed a flake usually thicker than a flake and then the edges are worked only for cutting. That is what secondary flaking is. Looks like just edges work. Hope this helps. On the site where I go to get some IDs these are called Dalton Tools. The one I am going to show you anyway. The age is 7500 B.P. which I always thought to be Early Archaic.

 

[BobGuy]

That's what I thought but wasn't sure. Thanks for the education!

 

[GatorBoy]

Hey there.. your piece looks like a core..and the others.. top left, a probable Hafted scraper and the others core pieces and a couple blanks that were rejected and never finished.
The only way you can date items like those..(expedient tools) accurately including the ones rock posted is by the context and association with dateable projectile points..since those type tools were made in all periods.
I have found lots of little expedient tools with graver spurs just like rocks from woodland sites as well as early, middle and late archaic.
In context and at the same level as projectile points from those periods.

 

[GatorBoy]

I have a similar core in this photo.

 

[BobGuy]

Would these be considered expectorant tools as well? These were wound with three others from the last picture..

 

[BobGuy]

Ha - **expedient tools!

 

[rock]

Yes if they show the work on the edges. If there is no work then it is probably reduction pieces or as most will call it Debitage.