Artifacts ID | What's the Point?

Does your artifact have fine chipping across the end or along the side?

Bifacial tools: Which of the following shapes does your artifact most closely resemble?

Drills: Which of the following shapes does your artifact most closely resemble?

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

Side-notched points: Which of the following shapes does your artifact most closely resemble?

Corner-notched drills: Which of the following shapes does your artifact most closely resemble?

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

Hafted scrapers: Which of the following shapes does your artifact most closely resemble?

Stemmed-base hafted scrapers: Which of the following shapes does your artifact most closely resemble?

Tools used for scraping hair off hides, smoothing wooden, bone, or shell tools or ornaments
Likely made from broken stemmed points

Corner notched base points: Which of these points looks most like yours?

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

Side-notched base points: Which of these points looks most like yours?

Tools used for scraping hair off hides, smoothing wooden, bone, or shell tools or ornaments
Likely made from broken side-notched points

Points: Which of the following shapes does the base of your artifact most closely resemble?

Rounded base points: Which of these points looks most like yours?

Bifurcated base points: Which of these points looks most like yours?

Corner-notched base points: Which of these points looks most like yours?

Side notched base points: Which of these points looks most like yours?

Concave (fluted) points: Which of these points looks most like yours?

Stemmed base point: Which of these points looks most like yours?

Straight based points: Which of these artifacts looks most like yours?

Triangle based points: Which of these points looks most like yours?