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Indian Artifact What is it?

dblmainbeam

dblmainbeam

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I'm sure this is some kind of tool. It looks like it was made. I found it arrowhead hunting a few years agoin a spot I have found several arrowheads.
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Hey that is interesting. Looks to have a finished surface from use ? Maybe some type of flakeing tool ?Just a guess?
 
It appears to be a hide/fat flesher tool. I also have a couple of similar fleshers. You can tell if the Indian was right or left hand by how your thumb fits on the tool.
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That's pretty interesting! hey i gotta question..Do any of you know what a celt is? and what Indians used it for....I have heard of this word before but can't remember what Indians used the tool for.
 
If you can... take it to the U of I anthropology dept and have a prof. inspect. If it's an Indian tool, they'll know who made, when it was made, and what it was used for.

I have a perfectly round stone, about the size of a tennis ball; that I thought had to be an Indian tool of some sorts. Wrong, I have a stone that at some time in the past was in stone depression at the base of a waterfall and the constant tumbling rounded the stone into a perfect sphere.
 
Indians must have scraped alot of stuff. I have several items in my artifact box that can only be identified as "scrapers".I realize they used these for fleshing hides and the like but what other applications would provide a need for these so called scrapers? Any thoughts.
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a celt is a small ax-like woodworking tool. The scrapers around my areas look more like unfinished arrowheads. I have no idea what that is.
 
I don't think it's a scraper because its thick and dull. I think its got to be a tool for flaking or something else. Here are some pics of my scrapers. One is a broken arrowhead turned into a scraper and I think the others were just made to be scrapers.
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Herer a different angle on the first pic.
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dblmainbeam

It's hard to tell without handling the artifact.
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It appears to be hardstone and not flint/chert leading me to believe that it's not a scraper. Does the convex end appear to make an edge like an axe bit or is it rounded? If it is rounded then my guess would be that it is a preform to a bannerstone. I say preform because finished banners have a hole drilled through the middle of the piece. If it appears to come more to an edge then I would say maybe you picked up the broken bit of and axe/celt. Because the the concave side appears to be polished if it is a broken bit then the maker definitely reworked the item. Just my 2 cents... There is an artifact show in Mt. Pleasant, Ia on January 16th, put on by The Hawkeye State Archaelogy Society. The doors open at 7am and the show ends that day at 1pm. Many artifact experts would be on hand to give you their thoughts.
 
I think it is an Indian Boatstone preform or unfinished artifact. Scroll down in the links and look at the boatstones. If finished, it would have been ground concave on top.
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It is a small and very rare example. Congrats on your find. I have found over ten thousand arrowheads and numerous other artifacts, but never a boatstone.
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i agree....lol its kind of interesting to hear what it might be...I personally havent ever found an indian artifact...or maybe I have and just not known it?

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