Ugly Quartz clunkers

[Wes213]

These are some of the ugly pieces made from low quality Quartz, they might not be pretty but they have character. I wonder if some of these where practice pieces?

 

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[BearCreek]

I watched a short documentary about the Topper Site in South Carolina. They were investigating pre-Clovis artifacts and showed how many of the tools were not beautifully flaked bifacial arrowheads, but clunky pieces with little flaking, some with straight edges. They even had a knapper recreate an artifact they discovered and show how they might have used a good hand sized core with just one place knocked out as a wood scraper. Not saying these pieces are pre-clovis, but maybe they were actually tools someone used. It's a good video if you are interested in pre-clovis https://youtu.be/K487ofhF0Wc

 

[crj1968]

No reason to work a piece into beauty if it will accomplish the task as is.
Quartz like that would seem very difficult to work with, must have been very limited resources in some areas....

 

[PullTabSlayer]

I like em!
The one pictured first, I have one exactly like it but not in quartz, it is the same size, shape and notched pretty close to the same as yours