Tools box 12,13

[bruce]

Please give me a thoughts on these starting to think some could be adtz
or choppers or pieces to hard to work down any furture. 13 one of my favorites I call hafted scrapers. I have to get some more boxes put together.

Thank everyone,
Bruce

 

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[Cannonman17]

Very nice assortment of hafted scrapers or "blunts" as they get called a lot- very nice. I don't think I've ever seen that many in one place at one time. The thick triangular darts are not darts though- knives, blanks/preforms but definitely not projectiles.

 

[bruce]

Thanks Cannonman,

You are right those are a little large for that. Really didn't
know about them much I'll have to look them over again. Yes heard them called
blunts heard they were for knock down so they didn't put whole in pelt. Most of
them are resharpened one edge.

Thanks,
Bruce

 

[Cannonman17]

I don't think "blunts" were used to knock prey down so they didn't put a hole in the hide. I am all but certain that it's another old wives tale... some of the first farmers in this country found a lot of artifacts and simply had to draw their own conclusions.. and pass them down. In reality however these would have been able to only knock down very small game at best and just irritate the rest. I don't know about you but I'm not going to hunt squirrels to get perfect hides to make clothes.. I'll just go shoot a deer or buffalo or elk or whatever to make my garmets from. Knocking squirrels out of a tree with one of these just doesn't check out. What does make sense however is that raw materials might not always have been nearby so if something broke you would more than likely use what was left (within reason) to fashion other tools from and good sized atlatl points when broken would have made perfect hafted scrapers.

 

[ohio]

Nice grouping of hafted scrapers. I always enjoy finding these tools. I organize my finds by site but, have often thought about grouping them all together. Thanks for sharing.
Chuck

 

[bruce]

Thanks Chuck,

This I do as well, These are from the same site 12-A-446
once you label them you can put them together. These photo are from
before. 90% of my collection is made up of 12-A-446.

Thanks,

Bruce