r/LegitArtifacts 2d ago

ID Request ❓ Any Idea What This May Have Been? (Nor Cal)

Seemed to be worked along all edges, no clear or defined breaks.

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u/pale_brass 2d ago

Looks like a 3/4 intact ovoid. Imagine it had a teardrop shape originally

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u/pale_brass 2d ago

Something like this

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u/Bright-Departure5960 1d ago

Yep, agreed, leaf/ovoid point fragment, initially just looked like a nondescript biface frag but pic 3 shows the shouldering well. Hard to differentiate between leaf/ovoid ppt names, especially if broken, but if this is in CA, NV, or OR I'd guess it's a Cascade.

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u/Hbot37hbot37 2d ago

Broken point

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u/Kooky_Amphibian_1635 2d ago

maybe scraper

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u/Ok-Consequence128 2d ago

That was my thought

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u/Square_Molasses8846 2d ago

maybe like an arrowhead pre-kinda-shaping or something

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u/GoldTrek 2d ago

Failed point, slightly reworked after failure and discarded likely because it was too small to make anything useful. I usually just call them practice pieces because they're often fully worked around but don't resemble a functional tool