ENDSCRAPER
Also at the bottom of the page I have some pictures of Gun Flints
Usually a unifacial tool, made on a flake-blade or blade, with broad working edge opposite the bulbar end.
AKA: Chisel End, Trianguloid End,
Triangular End, Thumbnail, Hafted Blunt,
Dome End Scraper, Round Nose Scraper, Square End Scraper,
Chisel
End, Distal Edge Uniface, Beaked Scrapers, and some Keeled
Scrapers, Plano-Convex End Scraper, Rectangular End, Duck Bill, Transverse
Scraper, Tee-End Scraper, Humped Back
OCCURRENCE: Multi-component
WHERE FOUND: Throughout North America
|
|
|
|
Washington State |
Georgia |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nebraska |
Massachusetts |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Kentucky |
Ohio |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
New Mexico |
Alaska |
|
|
|
Various Forms of End Scrapers
OFF SET END SCRAPERS
This type of End Scraper is known from Parkhill phase (Barnes), Paleo Indian sites in the Great Lakes region
Text and Photo's By: Bob Young
|
|
|
|
Offset End Scraper/Sidescraper. Scraper edges are "canted" to the right |
Offset End Scraper/Sidescraper. Scraper edges are "canted" to the left |
GUN FLINTS
Sometimes these have been mistaken for Scrapers
|
Each approximately 1" in width |
|
Native made gunflints Location: North of Laredo, Tx. Picture and text by Adolph Sassin |
 |
 |
| Dutch Gun Flints | French Gun Flints |
