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[mainejman]

This I have no idea about it was found on a very productive archaic site.It's about ten inches long.It looks like you can see where they were shaping the center to make a tool....mjm

 

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[chase2]

J, I have no clue? looks like it could be a lid of sorts but you know more of those artifacts up there.

 

[rock]

I wonder if that was a big stack they couldnt get around? You find some of the most interesting pieces maine

 

[quito]

Stack was my first thought too.

 

[mainejman]

Thanks for the responses....It looks like they were making a tool out of the center piece.Check out the flip side.You can see where the same type of reduction was started..mjm

 

[Charl]

Thanks for the responses....It looks like they were making a tool out of the center piece.Check out the flip side.You can see where the same type of reduction was started..mjm QUOTE]


Well, you do find many adz and gouges. Probably the start of one such....

 

[unclemac]

yeah....does it look like one of your finished pieces?

 

[mainejman]

Well it has the shape.If you were to take the center piece out as a whole.I wouldn't have guessed that would be the way they would bo about it.Most of my tools are pecked but not all...mjm

 

[Charl]

Well it has the shape.If you were to take the center piece out as a whole.I wouldn't have guessed that would be the way they would bo about it.Most of my tools are pecked but not all...mjm

I would not guess such a method either, and from the few preforms of gouges I have seen, that was not the method at all. It does not make much sense, since they very likely could find a suitable sized elongated cobble to peck and grind into the desired tool form. This would seem a more impractical approach, and natives were seldom impractical I should expect.....

 

[Get-the-point]

Interestingly odd.........

 

[mainejman]

I agree completely most of these tools keep to a basic design and technique of manufacture...every once in awhile they throw me a curve with some of their lesser quality stuff...mjm I

 

[monsterrack]

JMO It looks to be a stack, in the 1st photo it looks like the stone changes color around the center. Atool with that high ridge would not be very user friendly . Cool find