Uniface tools

[Th3rty7]

Here's a couple frames of uniface tools ( knives, scrapers, multitools, etc. ) feel free to post some of yours. The largest piece to the left in the first frame is right at 6".

 

[jamey]

here is something i found that i had not posted,is it a uni face tool. thanks jamey

 

[Charmin]

Hey thirty7--Are these what you call "uniface tools" or are they preforms? or maybe a little bit of both ? I'm not sure . I don't think I've posted these on here before. And there's an odd shaped one that I've never been able to figure out what it is?(pic #2, 3, 4) Help me out, would ya?
BTW--all those you posted are great! And so is that one of jamey's! kind regards~sandcreek4

 

[Pinellas Man]

Now that's what I call a tool show! 8) Thanks for showing y'all.

 

[Th3rty7]

Hi sandcreek, some of those look like possible uniface tools, the one in your hand is a biface, meaning both faces were worked. If the opposite sides of those are unflaked they're uniface. " A uniface tool is a specific type of stone tool that has been worked/ flaked on one surface. These tools fall into two classes. 1.modified flakes or 2. formalized tools that display deliberate , systematic modification of the edges and were often formed with a definite purpose in mind. " (wiki)

here's a couple of pics showing some edgework and the uniface or unworked side of the tool.

 

[Th3rty7]

hey jamey, take a pic of the other side of that piece and I'll tell you for sure.

 

[Charmin]

So, look at this pink one--I think its uniface as one side is smooth and one side is worked. Right? We thought it was a knife/scraper? Its curved to fit into the palm of your hand perfectly. See what ya think~~
sandcreek4

 

[Th3rty7]

there you go, that's a nice uniface knife / scraper tool. Alot of them are incredibly ergonomic, fitting the hand perfectly, you can even tell what hand the ancient maker used the tool with on some of them.

 

[blindpig]

Selection of Uniface tools collected in the N.T. Australia ,.... It appears many uniface tools are the same around the world ??


Thirty7 , as I was look'n at your uniface tools , they reminded me of the Aboriginal tool's I found in Australia some 30 yr's ago . Apparently The Australian Aboriginal's never had much need for fine bifacal points/ blades . there tool kits where very basic indeed . Infact , in over 95 % of the Australian Continent bifacal tools arn't seen in the archaeological record . Only up on the Northen cost [croc . country ] in isolated area's at that , are bifacal points seen . Anyway , the Aboriginal peoples seemed to have done well with there uniface tools .
A bit off topic ,.... once again .......Blindpig

 

[*Molly*]

Nice show guys. I've never really been a big fan of rhyolite scrapers, so I leave them in the field for others to find. I just know someones going to hunt that field some day ( if farmer permits) & be more delighted with them, than I was.. If I was staying in NC, I would prolly have kept them..

Molly.

 

[Th3rty7]

those tools from Australia are interesting blindpig, they really are similar to paleo indian tools all over the U.S. thanks for sharing.

 

[uniface]

Some really super stuff there, Thirty7 ! Quite a range of periods represented, I'd guess.

Some of the larger, cruder examples of this kind stuff were, IMO, primarily cores rather than "tools," even though these could be, and sometimes were, secondarily used as cutters, scrapers or choppers.

It's even starting to dawn on people in Europe that many of what they had been calling "hand axes" were primarily flake cores.

Thanks for the show !

 

[Th3rty7]

Some really super stuff there, Thirty7 ! Quite a range of periods represented, I'd guess.

Some of the larger, cruder examples of this kind stuff were, IMO, primarily cores rather than "tools," even though these could be, and sometimes were, secondarily used as cutters, scrapers or choppers.

It's even starting to dawn on people in Europe that many of what they had been calling "hand axes" were primarily flake cores.

Thanks for the show !

Thanks uniface, I agree with you on some of the cruder forms, glad you brought that up.

 

[RPG]

Here's a few I have found in the past. I love finding uniface tools.

Randy

 

[uniface]

Nice !!!