✅ SOLVED whats with the rounded ends

[outlawatheart]

are these reworked?? into??
I have a couple a dozen of this shape and have always wondered what they were.

 

[outlawatheart]

I wonder Outlaw will tell us if there is any obvious use wear, or signs of re-sharpening on the pieces in question. He may have them in hand and can tell best. We have so so pictures to examine.

 

[GatorBoy]

 

[fishstick]

The grey one looks to be a broken tip that's been worked into what we call around here as a teardrop scraper..

 

[quito]

View attachment 910724

Now that's a Knife! all 4 inches of it.

 

[GatorBoy]

Ho hum.. I don't think I need to try to explain to the people here that know full well that artifacts like blades and points come in different sizes and after re-sharpening get smaller.
That often leaves them fatter looking on the base in comparison to the length of the blade.. I'm not going to have a silly pissing match with you. Same thing all the time... I'm sure everybody is as tired of it as I am.. There's been more than enough information laid out in this thread for an educated person to make a decision

 

[quito]

Hmm. No, you probably don't need to explain that to very many. It's artifacts 101.

Maybe, (but I doubt) you can explain to me and all those people you mention why these pieces would be worn down this far and show no use wear. Give it your best shot gator. Outlaw says only one appears to be reworked.

 

[quito]

Just looking for intelligent answers, no pissing matches.

 

[GatorBoy]

Have fun dude.

 

[quito]

Just what I thought. You have no explanation for what is obvious about those little pieces..

 

[quito]

Lesson Finished.

 

[GatorBoy]

LoL.. What about tools being made in different sizes don't you get?

 

[quito]

gatorboy quote "LoL.. What about tools being made in different sizes don't you get? "

I get different sized tools being made. I have a bunch of them.

I Don't get 'halfted knives" as you have identified them, being made that small. I understand larger blades being worked down to small blades. I don't understand why those little halfted knives show no use wear. I do understand discarding short wore down blades, but I don't understand why those small blades would have all the pressure flaking you identified on those very nice edges, when they are the size most often found all used up. I think they are something else.

maybe since you were so positive in your ID, you can get serious and clear this up for the benefit of all of us.

 

[quito]

Outlaw, thanks for the additional pictures. I'm starting to think the one gray piece is a bifacialy worked thumb scraper or tear drop type as fishstik mentioned. The end looks knocked off to a steep bevel like most of them scrapers do.

 

[jamey]

outlaw they are sweet looking artifacts,i think you can call them a tool kit because they would use them like they are then later notch them into a point but i am no expert and there are few of them on here also eveyone even the experts just have an opinion based on there background,some work harder at having a better one though.

 

[GatorBoy]

With all the tiny little thumb scrapers you find out your way it surprises me that you wouldn't understand why a cutting tool would be made small.
There is so many examples in my collection and all over the internet and in books and archaeological reports just study of them a little bit.
A big blade was not going to be used on a rodent or rabbit or fish it's just what was needed is what was made
By the time I'm done I should wind up ending this like you did with.." lesson complete" .. That was pretty funny quit

 

[rock]

You guys are funny. Every one has their own guesses. Nobody will ever know for sure. Ill show one I have found recent.

 

[WVhillbilly]

Could have been a point that they also used as a knife. They used what they had accordingly id say...

 

[rock]

Here is one from Texas, on the left.

 

[GatorBoy]

Without getting off track the one on the left looks like a pre form that was in the thinning stage and hinged in a very bad spot and was probably not completed or given a new purpose.

 

[rock]

its very sharp and has a needle tip is all I know. Might be a flake that has been modified as a tool and has secondary flaking all along the edges. The age on this type of flint shows as tiny white dots. I enjoy the study of all different types of flint from different states.