Some questionable pieces

Older The Better

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Here’s a few other recoveries that seem to be somewhere between a tool and a classic flake maybe I look too deep but I’m curious what others think… all pieces found on a bluff under an overhang, in limestone debris and loess.
A. Can’t decide if it was part of a uniface scraper, or if it’s a very late removal from a biface. Seems to me like it was retouched after removal
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B. Again I would go debitage, but there seems to be some attempt to work the backside which tells me they came back to it. Still it doesn’t really resemble much of a tool
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C. This last one doesn’t have much fine flaking except maybe tiny serrations on one margin but it has the same general form of many better made scrapers from the same spot. Maybe this is just a very rough example?… maybe it’s just coincidence.
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Blackfoot58

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The white triangular piece appears to be more than debitage to me. The 2nd one appears rock-ish. I can’t tell on 3rd piece if it had very minor working, or if it’s the proverbial “creek chatter”. I’m a believer that not every stone was completed into a wall display-worthy point. Some were tossed aside, lost, unfinished for whatever reason. These are the ones that are so easy to disagree about.
I keep my “doubts” in their own bucket. Good luck!🍀
 

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Older The Better

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Appreciate your take, I know it’s not the most exciting stuff, I just want to get every detail I possibly can out of this site, sometimes I like to check myself against others to see if I’m over analyzing.
 

antmike915

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1st looks like a tip to something, possibly unifaced. The second definitely looks like it was worked but left unfinished (I've found alot of pieces pretty close looking to that). Hard too tell with #3; probably just debitage.
 

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