This is from a few hours of surface hunting on the creek. Some pieces of knives, some Clear Forks, a beat up Angostura, and a Frio and Langtry with tip damage.
That was a rewarding 3 hours looks like a circular scraper, not too common.
Even congrats on the backround. Millions of Americans were brought up to believe that "FIRE ENGINE RED " was the absolute ultimate in red... Now it's another millennium and we see Te has upgraded to the more powerful" EMERGENCY RED "
You can sure tell which one of those four Clear Forks was on the surface for a long time and which ones were exposed recently by pipeline constuction. Yeah, I'm partial to reds and blues unless they're in the rear view mirror.
TE, I have found probaly a half of a 5 gallon bucket full of clear fork's.I have heard several theories of what they were used for just wondering what your's is and how old they are?? Thanks JT
I copied this from another site, different tool and area, still I think this is how it's used. Looks like the logical way to use a Clear Fork.
As far as the time period, I contacted an expert on it and he said that the biface Clear Forks were Paleo, then gradually they were fazed out in the Archaic period and the uniface was the widely accepted tool. It was used for woodworking, to make Atlatls, atlatl shafts, knive handles, structural supports and all kinds of traps.
I'd noticed that many of my biface Clear Forks had a more rounded bit or cutting edge, then once the uniface Clear Forks appeared, the bit became more straight. I don't know if, with the design change if the purpose or usage also changed. It looks like it would, using a curved took verses a straight edged tool for woodworking. The Clear Fork has a large range and time period. So if you have a biface then you have a Paleo tool. Still researching it though.