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Chert flake? Spoll? Scraper?


Lone Hunter

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Had this in with my rocks for tumbling, now that I'm looking at it again I'm thinking it may be something.  It came from Alluvial gravels in creek where I've found other artifacts. Trying to learn to recognize when something has been worked, think this has, and the edge is quite sharp. 

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Given that you have found other stone artifacts in the same area, to me, it looks like a spall created from a larger core.  The lack of consistent edge flaking makes this less likely to have been used as a tool.  Artifact?  Yes; but a piece of debitage.

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That's basically what I thought it was, but at least it was something!  One man's trash is another's treasure.  :)Thank you for the insight.

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