Split in the wrong direction

[Older The Better]

Found this half the other day. It’s only the second artifact I’ve found broken down the middle, also found in the same spot as the first. My best guess on this one is they were trying to get at that stack and snapped it, but that doesn’t explain the white one. Any ideas why points broken in this way are showing up in the same spot? Is it a particular activity? Is it some kind of hafting I’m unaware of, maybe setting a blade in the side of a stick? Possibility a ceremonial killing deal? One seemed random but two in the same spot has me wondering what went on.

 

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[Tesorodeoro]

What makes you think it was broken down the middle AFTER it was worked?

 

[Older The Better]

Interesting thought I suppose it’s a possibility, was just going off of experience with other broken artifacts vs flakes or stone with a worked edge. I’ll have to look it over and see if I can’t find any evidence one way or the other. I will say that it’s a sharp smooth face it’s not nibbled or rough.

 

[Tesorodeoro]

Interesting thought I suppose it’s a possibility, was just going off of experience with other broken artifacts vs flakes or stone with a worked edge. I’ll have to look it over and see if I can’t find any evidence one way or the other. I will say that it’s a sharp smooth face it’s not nibbled or rough.

I was just thinking a blade that you could comfortably put down pressure with your thumb might be useful. I think Uniface posted up something like this awhile back.Maybe he will chime in?

 

[Tdog]

A backed knife I would say.

 

[Tesorodeoro]

A backed knife I would say.

I was going to say that but didn’t want to use the wrong terminology and sound like a know it all that doesn’t know they are sounding like…well you know.

 

[Older The Better]

Here’s some more angles I still think it’s broken, but I don’t have experience with backed knives. I don’t have a good editor on my phone but in the third pic there’s some flake scars that don’t look like they could have came from the worked edge, also the large flat ones near the tip carry straight to a sharp edge, I would think if they drove a flake all the way across it would alter the opposite edge.

 

[Fat]

... it looks like the broken edge from a knife but It’s hard to tell the size of it..

 

[Riverbum]

Knife?

 

[crj1968]

Interesting I found something similar- the bottom one in these pics. Has a single sided worked edge. ? Quickly made knife I assume.

 

[Older The Better]

Has that same curve too, interesting
Here’s one for size

 

[crj1968]

Definitely similar... the, I guess... top edge, on yours almost looks like it has been ground down, or smoothed. My guess is they are just crude knife forms.