PHOTO: Joshua Ream are your sure that this is an overshot?

[BenjaminE]

Hello Joshua,

Are you sure that this is an overshot? Is the 90 degree part of the flake broken off?

Thanks,

Ben

 

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[joshuaream]

Ben,

Yes, pretty sure. These items have been handled by lots Archaeologists and included in a couple of research pools.

This picture is the dorsal side with a decent amount of flaking, and maybe the remnants of a previous overshot. The proximal/platform end is up top. The distal side is damaged, it probably fractured like yours do:



This is the ventral side.


Here are a couple of people looking at the group. (Dennis Stanford's Obit was posted a couple of days ago, a great guy.) This piece was in that group, I think it was likely the one I have circled towards the bottom of the pic. I have most of the Overshots in that part of the frame.

Joshua