What would you call it

[Older The Better]

I’ve been enjoying to education on tool types, that Limace one reminded me of this, I just called it a scraper but it’s almost s shaped and I had wondered how they would knock off a flake in such a way. The limace seemed to exhibit a similar profile... would you call what I have a limace type tool, it’s a middle woodland to Mississippian site

Nearly flat bottomed and a couple inches long

 

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[uniface]

I can't put a name on it, but I can point out that flakes can wobble up and down as they run, as on yours.

Interesting artifact. What are the indications of use on the edges ? Scraping ? Cutting ? Is one end ground for halting ?

 

[dognose]

What is the dimensions of this relic?

Is there any basal grinding? if so, where?

 

[Older The Better]

Here’s some additional pictures, I don’t have much of an eye for use wear or polish, all the artifacts seem fairly uniform, same goes for basal grinding either it’s more subtle than I expect or I haven’t found hardly any.

 

[Relicgrubber]

Looks like it would make a good gouge...

 

[Up-North]

I’d call it a ancient Swiss Army knife... in other words, a multi-purpose tool.
It could function to many uses.... nice piece

 

[Injunbro]

An old Apache man I met decades ago carried something similar in a leather pouch. It did the job of a pocket knife to cut things.

 

[dognose]

It almost has a thumb scraper tool shape to it.

 

[H.P.]

The blow was struck and the force sent the energy or shockwave up over a problem spot in the stone, then traveled down the other side and terminated, basically a weird kind of overshot flake, in answer to your question as to how it acquired that shape, imo.

 

[Gravelbar32]

As your neighbor, I would add that I have a few similar tools but not with that wild whizzo curve. I think HP's got it right

 

[Older The Better]

Yeah that curve was a new one on me, I suspected that what hp said was the case but I wasn’t sure if it really could work that way.