multi-purpose tool....w/question for Quito just added

[larson1951]

I think Quito has one like this
I have found several but never saved the first few that I found
I don't know what it is, could it be an ice glider?

Quito, On return comment#4 of the buffalo scapula and ice glider post it looks like you have the same tool (lower left hand corner) as the one I ask about being an ice glider
they sure look the same (at least from the same side you photographed yours from)
Will you please examine your piece when you get a chance and respond ?
I am excited to hear your reply
thanks, Larson1951

 

[uniface]

Re: multi-purpose tool

Tony Baker's working up a piece on Folsom points having been hafted in rib bone foreshafts. Which probably wouldn't apply unless yours is that old, but apparently later cultures did the same thing.

 

[GL]

Re: multi-purpose tool

A knife handle...I hadn't even considered them hafting blades to bone! I feel dumb now, of course they would have. That makes perfect sense to me. Excellent thing you have there larson.

 

[Tnmountains]

Re: multi-purpose tool

With that point on the end? Man a knife handle would be cool. Does it look like there was a point on the other side Larson?

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Re: multi-purpose tool

My guess is it was used to open up mussel shells. I know a guy in Cincinnati who has a few that look just like that and he was told that is what they were used for. Of course, it's all speculation and we'll never know for sure what something like was used for unless we find it in context with the items it was meant to be used with.

 

[silvercop]

Re: multi-purpose tool

 

[larson1951]

Quito-


Quito, On return comment#4 of the buffalo scapula and ice glider post it looks like you have the same tool (lower left hand corner) as the one I ask about being an ice glider
they sure look the same (at least from the same side you photographed yours from)
Will you please examine your piece when you get a chance and respond ?
I am excited to hear your reply
thanks, Larson1951