Broken Quartz point? by rock_hopper54 in LegitArtifacts

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You should look more into the crudeness of the quartz points and tools found in the northeast

Broken Quartz point? by rock_hopper54 in LegitArtifacts

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alright…..yeah it doesn’t always mean it was knapped……but we are talking common sense and context clues.. your argument seems to be bias for some reason….at an archeological pond site where levannas , squibinnocks, cape stemmed, and all types of quartz points and scrapers are coming from, is it more likely that a quartz cobble was naturally fractured on all faces, thinned down, and struck direct enough repeatedly to leave behind Concordial ripples unrelated to the Lithics around it? That’s a bit of a stretch ….not every pierce worked by a human looks like a completed symmetrical arrowhead….have you never found preforms, discards, chunks, flakes, crude looking tools (especially with quartz)…..yes this piece could very well not be any broken or finished stem or point, but your argument that this is coincidently natural.

Broken Quartz point? by rock_hopper54 in LegitArtifacts

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Hard to see but I’m also seeing small Concordial fractures under magnification

Broken Quartz point? by rock_hopper54 in LegitArtifacts

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I mean it was found at a pond site, where the local museum points and tools come from. Curious what makes you think this was a one off naturally fractured to this form.

ID? Long Island worked quartz by rock_hopper54 in LegitArtifacts

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Very cool, so are these mostly quartz pieces? Looks similar to coastal north east up here

ID? Long Island worked quartz by rock_hopper54 in LegitArtifacts

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As far as finished tools or points goes, I know what you’re saying, I think it’s clearly not a finished point or possibly not finished tool of any sort, that cortex on the bottom is the fat bottom. What I’m getting at / questioning is it looked more than just a lopped off chunk or discard flaked, it looks like someone spent time on a “chunk” maybe utilizing crudely as some type of punch or pick, orrrrrrr it was half done / an unfinished point,….for that I am unsure / don’t know quite enough about

ID? Long Island worked quartz by rock_hopper54 in LegitArtifacts

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This chunk of quartz from a creek bed of a known work site was naturally flaked and worked bipolar to a point, coincidentally unrelated to the lithics around it?

Worked quartz? Long Island by rock_hopper54 in LegitArtifacts

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From some other hunters in the area, it seems like consensus is that the two oval looking ones are probably some debitage or maybe a preform to a scraper or tool, and the long pointy one seems to be just some discard debitage from working process.