Thumb scraper and possible worked edge?

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Were these in a creek? It does look like secondary work on the edge. Of course always hard to sayfrom a picture and not in the hand. Finding any little reduction flakes in the area?
 

Looks like from tumbling in a creek or stream.
 

Were these in a creek? It does look like secondary work on the edge. Of course always hard to sayfrom a picture and not in the hand. Finding any little reduction flakes in the area?

Yes, they both were found in a creek. I wish my camera was capable of better pictures. Thanks for your input :icon_thumleft:
 

It looks to me like the removals are all pretty much at the same angle. Which makes deliberate creation more likely than accidental. Factor in that they're shoulder-to-shoulder.

No brainer, IMHO.
 

It looks to me like the removals are all pretty much at the same angle. Which makes deliberate creation more likely than accidental. Factor in that they're shoulder-to-shoulder.

No brainer, IMHO.

Thanks for your input! :happy3:
 

That sure doesn’t look like creek tumbling damage to
me. I agree with uniface.
 

It looks to me like the removals are all pretty much at the same angle. Which makes deliberate creation more likely than accidental. Factor in that they're shoulder-to-shoulder.

And that they're all pretty much the same size. And along the same edge. That's a powerful lot of coincidences IMO.
 

I agree with Uniface. The probability of the edge on the second one being created by random creek tumbling is astronomically small.
 

Pics 4,6 and 7 for sure to me show purposeful work. 4 is a thumb scraper imhop. that stuff looks old like the stuff we pull from the paleo clay layer in FL
 

It looks to me like the removals are all pretty much at the same angle. Which makes deliberate creation more likely than accidental. Factor in that they're shoulder-to-shoulder.

No brainer, IMHO.

another fact i noticed is there is no sign of flaking or creek damage on some edges. You’d think if it was incidental it would be on every edge.
 

Pics 4,6 and 7 for sure to me show purposeful work. 4 is a thumb scraper imhop. that stuff looks old like the stuff we pull from the paleo clay layer in FL

I pulled the thumb scraper out of a muddy bank in the creek...probably 6 ft down. Looked old to me too!
 

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