Lower Hiwassee River, Tennessee

[pingdis]

Natural or tool? Thanks!

 

[uniface]

Looks like a bone knife.

 

[Relicgrubber]

Looks like a bone knife.

 

[uniface]

I didn't say it was one. I said it looks like one -- except for the marrow channel being curved. The other discrepancies could be mooted, if there were any point to that.

As it stands, a nice limace. Likely early archaic but not certainly.

 

[pingdis]

More pics of sharp edge:

 

[pingdis]

According to "The Prehistory of the Chickamauga Basin, Volume 1" by Thomas Lewis and Madeline Kneberg Lewis, in the immediate area of this find was a Middle Woodland culture (Candy Creek) and Mississippian culture (Mouse Creek, Ledford Island). Both made crude fashioned ground stone scrapers or knives, but this type was especially common with the Mouse Creek.

 

[uniface]

According to "The Prehistory of the Chickamauga Basin, Volume 1" by Thomas Lewis and Madeline Kneberg Lewis, in the immediate area of this find was a Middle Woodland culture (Candy Creek) and Mississippian culture (Mouse Creek, Ledford Island). Both made crude fashioned ground stone scrapers or knives, but this type was especially common with the Mouse Creek.

Interesting. But yours isn't ground stone -- it's napped/flaked.

 

[pingdis]

Interesting. But yours isn't ground stone -- it's napped/flaked.

OK, Thank you!