Super Scrapers.
Hi all. Last week I posted Hafted Scrapers. It was well received with much discussion. Thank you. This week I post another overlooked and little appreciated Artifact, the small scraper. When I was young these were abundant. Dads and Grandpas just didn’t appreciate them and they were tossed by the wayside. Fortunate for me, like many of you I kept everything that was worked by the Red Man. Of course today they are very much appreciated by the modern hunter. Thumb Nails, Side Scrapers, Distal end blades, Racloirs, Convex transverse, and many other forms have been used from long before the Paleo man we are familiar with. In fact it was used by early Bipedal Hominids. “The oldest known stone tools have been found in Ethiopia in sediments dated at between 2.5 million and 2.6 million years old”. The makers are unknown, but may be either early Homo or A. garhi. Of course our finds are much later. It is well known that all Homo Sapiens who arrived in these continents were stone tool makers. Now Meadow Croft and Monte Verde are the best bets for Pre-Cloves Man. With an early, date of more than 14,000 years. And as most of you all know, that 20,000 years occupation isn’t farfetched. So these small scrapers are still, today, the most prevalent Artifact used by the Native Americans. Sorry for the poor Pict. All of these are worked tools found by myself and other family members. Found in Snyder, Union, Northumberland, and Lancaster Counties. Kim
Hi all. Last week I posted Hafted Scrapers. It was well received with much discussion. Thank you. This week I post another overlooked and little appreciated Artifact, the small scraper. When I was young these were abundant. Dads and Grandpas just didn’t appreciate them and they were tossed by the wayside. Fortunate for me, like many of you I kept everything that was worked by the Red Man. Of course today they are very much appreciated by the modern hunter. Thumb Nails, Side Scrapers, Distal end blades, Racloirs, Convex transverse, and many other forms have been used from long before the Paleo man we are familiar with. In fact it was used by early Bipedal Hominids. “The oldest known stone tools have been found in Ethiopia in sediments dated at between 2.5 million and 2.6 million years old”. The makers are unknown, but may be either early Homo or A. garhi. Of course our finds are much later. It is well known that all Homo Sapiens who arrived in these continents were stone tool makers. Now Meadow Croft and Monte Verde are the best bets for Pre-Cloves Man. With an early, date of more than 14,000 years. And as most of you all know, that 20,000 years occupation isn’t farfetched. So these small scrapers are still, today, the most prevalent Artifact used by the Native Americans. Sorry for the poor Pict. All of these are worked tools found by myself and other family members. Found in Snyder, Union, Northumberland, and Lancaster Counties. Kim
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