Square Knife

[uniface]

People made square knives in different eras ; Matt Rowe says most of the pretty, nice ones are from the Woodland era, FWIW.

This example is the proverbial Paleo form, easily distinguished by the past-the-middle flaking and end thinning strike that looks like a flute.

One corner is worked into a nose scraper. O. s. l. date on this one is late, which I suspect reflects the composition of the soil it was embedded in more than its absolute age. Horse Creek Chert.

 

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[tomclark]

paleo form FL likely Suwannee Complex

 

[Charl]

These two were described as Paleo examples by the finder. From Virginia.


This one is from Kansas, and in my collection. I remember Lar Hothem, in his book on knives, saying that the business end was actually the short axis. In this example, the right side end does seem adze-like, and appears to be the business end, but I know next to nothing about these tools...