It's a really nice and well made Clovis. He had a little trouble getting the flute to run and had to set it up a couple times resulting in a deep concavity . All the deltas look great for Clovis.
I see that too but not really unusual. That flute was at least the third attempt on that side. There was a thick spot he couldnt get the flute to run under so he had to trim it again from the side. I'm not proclaiming it was old but whoever made it did so very cloviseske.
I lean toward cast or new as well because of no visible mineralization. I'm not familiar with the characteristics of that material though. All I'm saying is , that side is made exactly correct for Clovis as far as I can tell.
To the original quest who dun it? it was certainly aliens, ancient man clearly wasn’t smart enough to figure out how to craft such a point and would have perished without knowledge from the stars… seriously though I’m enjoying this thread, a little higher level of analysis, I don’t have any real life experience with paleo so I can’t add much but that base just keeps whispering dalton to me but not the rest… some transitional dalton Clovis hybrid?
What threw me about it was the same thing that threw me about the re-based Clovis I thought must be a Redstone -- re-basing or knapping problem workaround at the basal edge changes the whole "look." A characteristic I'd assumed (not being a points guy re. paleo) was primary was actually variable.
That's why I posted it, and thanks for the education !
That's a cool piece, I hunt Coshocton County frequently and have never found such a large piece of Blue Coshocton, must've been pretty rare archaically, but not in the paleo.