Tool needs help ID

[Mayof1968]

OK, let me just go this route - Have you ever seen anything similar that was an artifact? If not - would this be an important find if it turned out to be an artifact? Does anyone know where I could go in the state of Ohio to have it looked at in person?

 

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[MAMucker]

Well
It is a One of a Kind.

 

[Mayof1968]

with no hand use wear,

I keep trying to explain - the finger imprints wrap all the way around. Not just one... or two... When I hold it like I am in pic #15 all four bottom fingers have an EXACT imprint all the way around on both sides and where my thumb is place also has a perfect imprint.

 

[Mayof1968]

First pics I took were bad. I feel like because of them no one is taking a closer look. I'm 100% not that guy who pics up a random rock and thinks its an artifact. The fact that I cant find anything close to this honestly has me kind of excited. I really cant take good enough pics to show how perfect the finger imprints are. At this point I would like to take this to an expert and have them look at it in person. If anyone has any idea where I could do that in the state of Ohio I would greatly appricate it.

 

[MAMucker]

As you say. And I wouldn?t discourage having an experienced eye examine it.
But what practical reason would there be to put all that work into creating a stone tool made up of mostly handle.

 

[Mayof1968]

As you say. And I wouldn?t discourage having an experienced eye examine it.
But what practical reason would there be to put all that work into creating a stone tool made up of mostly handle.

The "nose" is angled perfectly for napping. Look at how im holding in pic #15. but honestly I have no idea. Whatever it was used for it was the flat "nose" that was used.

 

[Mayof1968]

few other things found recently. not sure about the last one.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

New pictures are also natural.

 

[Fat]

The "nose" is angled perfectly for napping. Look at how im holding in pic #15. but honestly I have no idea. Whatever it was used for it was the flat "nose" that was used.

....your a knapper? Will you so us some of your knapping skill?

....the other things pic are natural too.

 

[unclemac]

The "nose" is angled perfectly for napping. Look at how im holding in pic #15. but honestly I have no idea. Whatever it was used for it was the flat "nose" that was used.

We have A LOT of knappers on this forum.... no one would use this as such a tool. You are confusing natural wear for being worked. If someone had taken the time to fashion this as a tool, and put all that effort into perfect finger grips, the whole stone would be finished and polished. The flat smooth areas that you suppose to be where actual contact would have been made show no wear. Those areas should be banged up, not smooth.

 

[unclemac]

I have handled THOUSANDS of stone artifacts... not including projectile points. Many of use here have. We don't need close ups to tell us that all of these stones you have posted are in fact natural. We have also all handled PLENTY of wannabe fits in your hand rocks, hell, I have a garden full, I always pick them up, the more the merrier! I can go down to any river in the NW and pick up a basket full of "pestles" all day long.

 

[CaptEsteban]

Here ;

https://www.ohiohistory.org/learn/collections/archaeology/archaeology-services

 

[CaptEsteban]

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