Artifacts ID

  • Used for drilling holes in shell, bone, or stone to make a variety of ornaments, pipes, spear-thrower weights, and other artifacts
  • Thick, diamond-shaped cross section
  • Likely made from broken side-notched points
  • Used for drilling holes in shell, bone, or stone to make a variety of ornaments, pipes, spear-thrower weights, and other artifacts
  • Thick, diamond-shaped cross section
  • Likely made from broken corner-notched points
  • Tools used for scraping hair off hides, smoothing wooden, bone, or shell tools or ornaments
  • Likely made from broken stemmed points
Corner notched hafted base scrapers:
  • Tools used for scraping hair off hides, smoothing wooden, bone, or shell tools or ornaments
  • Likely made from broken corner-notched points
  • Tools used for scraping hair off hides, smoothing wooden, bone, or shell tools or ornaments
  • Likely made from broken side-notched points