blade?

[jdsstimmel]

Is this a blade? Any info would be appreciated

[gregszybala]

Sure looks like it!
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[jdsstimmel]

another se tn find.

[jdsstimmel]

approx 3.25 in

[OnewiththewilD]

im not from yer region so i dont know if you's have a specific name for that type around there, but from looks alone i can guess thats a really nice stemmed knife blade. very cool find!

[Kyflintguy]

Cool blade,  looks like some patinated Hornstone.  Nice find, Thanks for sharing it!

[sailorjoe]

I agree with 1w.t.wild guy in that it looks like a stemmed knife blade. Cultural period ? But a WAG might be late Archaic to Woodland. The bicolor appearance looks to me like the blade was struck from a river cobble made of some kind of chert (as opposed to chert from a quarry site). But I wouldn't bet much on that WAG. Much better if we had it up close and personal.

[rmartin]

Nice piece. Like Joe said it would be a guess trying to assign a cultural tag on it.

[CoachG]

I would go with stemmed knife.  Nice piece.

[SDhunter]

Very nice blade

[orari]

It looks to me like a large decortication flake that was struck off a chert nodule very early in the lithic reduction process and converted into a tool for some sort of quick task.  Like most of the other folks here, I agree that putting a time period on this artifact is problematic at best.  Archaic Period is always a good SWAG because of the great time depth.  The percentages are with you just like in an Alabama football game.  But it could be earlier or later in time.

[jhill0962]

ya unless alabama plays oklahoma  im gonna go with a flake knife

[OnewiththewilD]

it looks like it was once a full point that busted along one side and was resharpened.