Interesting Montana Find

[BozemanSooner]

What do I have here? I’ve found old stuff at this site.

[BozemanSooner]

Some other stuff including a cool multi tool. Point on one side and a scraper on the other.

[flintguy]

The first one looks like a square knife. Very cool.

[smbore]

I'd say square knife as well.nice stuff.

[clovisoid]

I see that little thinning/fluting platform poking out there.

If you look at the piece sideways or down the barrel from the base, is it it above/below the center plane of the biface? Or evenly centered between both faces.

[BozemanSooner]

does This help?

[Hal Gorges]

It seems to be a paleo rectangle, two kinds, uniface and flaked both sides. Usually have one or moreTelltale graver Spurs that separates em from Archaic pieces,.They also usually have three to four different working edges, regular, shallow steep,,A regular Swiss Army knife ...pointer shows spurs ,...yours probably has one...These were found on a Paleo kill site in a north Florida river.yours looks to be museum grade.

[BozemanSooner]

It seems to be a paleo rectangle, two kinds, uniface and flaked both sides. Usually have one or moreTelltale graver Spurs that separates em from Archaic pieces,.They also usually have three to four different working edges, regular, shallow steep,,A regular Swiss Army knife ...pointer shows spurs ,...yours probably has one...These were found on a Paleo kill site in a north Florida river.yours looks to be museum grade.

It looks broke. Interesting, I was thinking this was the base not a square knife.

[flintguy]

That break was hard to see in the other pics. Does make one wonder if it wasn't a blade that broke. It looked worked on both edges from the other pictures. Could still just be a edge fracture if it was dropped. Nice piece, hard to say which it is.

[Hal Gorges]

Don really know either, just shot that out there to see what everyone said. Thanks all.

[Hal Gorges]

Kinda looks like a new break , this stuff is so hard to diagnose from photos...

[BozemanSooner]

Don really know either, just shot that out there to see what everyone said. Thanks all.

That you for the feedback!

[tomclark]

I think Paleo "square knives" were made from large broken spearpoints or made with the blank that didn't work out for the spearpoint...and ended up being made into a square knife...

[flintguy]

Hadn't really thought about that Tom. Explains the shape.

[Hal Gorges]

A real beauty Tom.

[BozemanSooner]

I think Paleo "square knives" were made from large broken spearpoints or made with the blank that didn't work out for the spearpoint...and ended up being made into a square knife...

Tom what’s your take on my find? Thanks for the help.

[Tam]

I as just looking at square knives last night in overstreet .
it sure looks like one.

[BozemanSooner]

I as just looking at square knives last night in overstreet .
it sure looks like one.

Are square knives an indication of its age or we they made throughout history? Thanks!

[Tam]

It would have to do with the flaking style for easy age identification . No expert here . But if you look up on our information center here the oldest will look like Tom’s knife .