So, What Are These Called?

[Gravelbar32]

I have them from this size down to the size of a paperclip. Obvious how they were used but what are they properly called?

 

[IDXMonster]

I don’t even know what they are or what they are used for! Are they something for flint knapping?

 

[smokeythecat]

With regard to Ohio flint they are referred to as "flake knives". I found a lot in Ohio, however I didn't go this year.

 

[Gravelbar32]

Smokey, I would guess they were used as knives, too but I find them with the tips battered like they were used as a gouge? But as you say, the blade edge shows some use but never as much as the tip here in SE Kansas.

 

[uniface]

They are lamellar blades.

Nice !

 

[newnan man]

Nice, I always called them "flake knives".

 

[uniface]

I would guess they were used as knives, too but I find them with the tips battered

The end-battering is from previous, unsuccessful attemps to remove them from the parent cores they came from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithic_core

FWIW

 

[Gravelbar32]

The end-battering is from previous, unsuccessful attemps to remove them from the parent cores they came from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithic_core

FWIW

Thank you, uniface. I assumed the battering was from use as a gouge but I can see that it might be from manufacture of the knife.

 

[Gravelbar32]

The end-battering is from previous, unsuccessful attemps to remove them from the parent cores they came from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithic_core

FWIW

So, uniface or anybody else, I have a million of these little scrapers that have the apex battered , too. Is it from use or manufacture? I assumed they were used in this manner ( in my pics).

 

[uniface]

Working edges were the straight, thin-edged sides -- lithic razor blades.