I believe i saw a post or a pic of a guy who had about 4 or 5 little flakes that looked to be worked as some sort of finger scrapper. Reason i ask, is i was looking through a plate of chips and came across two that possibly could be used in that manner.. they fit in the fingers perfect,.. i'll have pics in a few.. . has anyone heard of anything that small for that use?.. i'm sure its possible.....
some small flakes were used as small knives. i call them thumb-nail scrapers. i have half a dozen or so. they are rich in the valley i dig. hope i helped...
awww.. thumbnail scrapper....thats sounds right!... . i mean.. i'm no expert by all means... .. I'll be uploading the pics for the yeah's and neah's.....
cant wait to hear what ya say... shoot could just be chips for all i know~.... bring it to the experts!
Fingers, thumbs, pinky toes....Any size flint flake can be pressed into service, just the amount of identifiable
"work" seperates a piece of junk flint, from a tool.
The fatty on the right I would call a fat knife. It's pretty difficult to work down the middle of a small piece of flint, so I suspect that the owner wanted it fat
The one thing All of the archeologists I ever knew had to say about this is that anything that could cut well was of value to someone. I often remember this when I find little caches of quarter to half dollar size flakes in more quantity that it took to knap a point.
again, my wife was making a nice plate of chips...i just happen to finger through em and pulled these out.
you can see the serrated edge a little on this.. but its with my phone.. sorry for the quality~.
the other...
like you said.. your right.. anything you can pick up and use.. they probably did...no telling...
thanks for looking guys~... i wont be out hunting till weekend after next... I'll post what i find... oh
and lastly.. my son found this......he runs it up to me.. dad, dad... look..x marks the spot.. I'm like where did you find it???.. I DON'T REMEMBER!!!.ggrrr....lol.. buried treasure..who knows~ but cool find. up close, they look almost done by a knife..