Scraper or arrowhead?

[Guest 1551]

Hey guys, my friend found this on her ranch yesterday while we we were looking for artifacts. Is this some sort of scraper or an arrowhead made by a severely ******ed Indian? We’ve just never seen an arrowhead so bent like that...

 

[GB1]

look like a practice one somebody was doing i really don't know though

 

[old digger]

I would say that it was halfted and used as a knife.

 

[SportsmanAll]

I know that symmetry wasn’t the most important thing, but that one is pretty bent. I agree it would have made an adequate knife, or possibly the point of a thrusting spear?

 

[quito]

Definitely not a spear or arrow head. Probly halfted scraper or knife.

 

[GaRebel1861]

I'd say it was a crude knife blade.

 

[sandchip]

I agree with Reb. The exaggerated curvature was more than likely caused by the removal of a flake from a nearly exhausted core. Little effort was taken to remove it, roughing it into a usable knife and on to work with it.

 

[jmaschal]

Cool find regardless i don’t see too many of those. Great example. Thanks for sharing.

 

[joshuaream]

It’s for shooting around trees, a very specialized arrowhead.

 

[Charl]

Not trying to highjack your thread, but I can show you a nice example of a large rhyolite Genesee knife with a wicked curve. On display at the Robbins Museum in Ma.....