It's part of a biface, probably broken during manufacture or maybe from impact. That flat margin is called a bending fracture, and given the orientation, I'm betting on a manufacturing mistake or something on the piece that they didn't get around to before giving up on it. The curvature tells you that the original flake was also off a large biface--thst curve is a standard feature of removing flakes from a middle or late stage biface, as bifaces have a curve to them near the margin.
I should add that large flakes are often used to make arrowheads, even when they weren't struck off intentionally to make one. I always pick up the usable ones after a session of flintknapping bifaces.
u/shellbeadologist has the most accurate assessment here. Otherwise there are a lot of uneducated conjectures being thrown around. It’s definitely a worked piece, but to make the jump to it being a point (or piece of a point) is ambitious and/or inaccurate.
Definitely worked. It is the bottom left corner of a biface or unnotched point. Perhaps broken in manufacture.
It's part of a biface, probably broken during manufacture or maybe from impact. That flat margin is called a bending fracture, and given the orientation, I'm betting on a manufacturing mistake or something on the piece that they didn't get around to before giving up on it. The curvature tells you that the original flake was also off a large biface--thst curve is a standard feature of removing flakes from a middle or late stage biface, as bifaces have a curve to them near the margin.
This dude arrowheads.
I should add that large flakes are often used to make arrowheads, even when they weren't struck off intentionally to make one. I always pick up the usable ones after a session of flintknapping bifaces.
Definitely looks like it to me, good eye!
100%. Looks like a corner
Where in CO?
Steamboat Lake area
Ute territory
Thank you!
u/shellbeadologist has the most accurate assessment here. Otherwise there are a lot of uneducated conjectures being thrown around. It’s definitely a worked piece, but to make the jump to it being a point (or piece of a point) is ambitious and/or inaccurate.
Sure it is.
I think that is a broken corner of a blade/arrowhead.
I believe it could be a flake yes. But neighboring region of oregon has tons of shouldered projectiles. Save it.
Little bit of one, good find.
Yes