Square Knives

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Square Knives
Posted by [RyanVa]

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Square Knife / Square End Knife / Rectangular Knife
Paleo - Historic
Here's a few square knives from my collection. Second pic is Ohio examples, two Coshocton, one hornstone, the colorful piece is Pipe Creek material.
Third pic is two Kentucky pieces, sonora , uniface sonora, the small example on the right is from In.
Fourth pic, two paleo examples.
Feel free to post yours here.


Posted by [Weepingeyegorget]
Those are really nice.. I like the Sonora one.. The pipe creek is pretty to

Posted by [ksrocks]
Very nice artifacts Ryan, beautiful material & workmanship!
Joe.

Posted by [cgode]
Man, do you find some nice stuff or what!....very nice materials and artifacts ryan, thanks for the pics.

Posted by [greywolf22]
Nice. I like square knifes. These are made of some very nice material.
Jack

Posted by [turkeytail]
Great knives Ryan! Love the one with the bullseye.

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Posted by [RyanVa]



Appreciate the comments fellows. Here's another I found on a late paleo ridge campsite years ago. We found alot of uniface tools scrapers and knives there. Points associated were lanceolate types and unfluted fluted types. Unfortunately broken.


Posted by [tomclark]
Super nice Square Knives, there!!!!!
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Posted by [RyanVa]
Nice early example Tom. Suwannee are a paleo type right? Seems like the paleo square knives stick out from the rest, thin with nice pressure flaking. Thanks for the addition.

Posted by [gregszybala]
Those are sweet you guys, would love to find a full one of those.

Posted by [Hoss]
Thats some nice flint! what is the material of the first point in the third picture with what looks like a bullseye?

Posted by [rmartin]
Fantastic Post Ryan. Great stuff! Thanks to everyone else, I love threads like this. This is one of my favorite artifacts and that really good one has eluded me-but I will find it. Ray


Posted by [RyanVa]
CMD wrote:
Ryan, those are flat-out fantastic examples! Great materials too. Here's one from Kansas, don't know the material.

Charlie

That is a great piece and really nice material. thanks for sharing that one.


Posted by [RyanVa]
Hoss1958usa wrote:
Thats some nice flint! what is the material of the first point in the third picture with what looks like a bullseye?

Thanks Hoss, that is Sonora flint / chert from central Ky. It outcrops in Hart and Hardin counties. That is one of my favorite pieces of Sonora.


Posted by [RyanVa]
rmartin wrote:
Fantastic Post Ryan. Great stuff! Thanks to everyone else, I love threads like this. This is one of my favorite artifacts and that really good one has eluded me-but I will find it. Ray

Thanks Ray. I really like these forms as well. I'm still looking for a nice large drill like the ones you've found multiple examples of. I've found my share of small ones but a big 3 - 4 + inch drill is elusive in these parts it seems.