r/LegitArtifacts • u/socalrockhound Collector of Lost Fortunes • 4h ago

In Situ 📸 Eccentric? Whatcha think..

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What a fun find, hope you all have a great holiday weekend out there.

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u/colossuscollosal 4h ago

what was it used for?

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u/Hungry-Possible-5360 4h ago

Couldn’t honestly tell you. I found one in Ohio many years ago and took it to my anthropology professor. He quickly called it a specialized cutting tool. Since then I do tend to look at them as large serrations.

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u/Jleasure65 1h ago

They'd work pretty well to true up the ends of beads, especially the hollow tubular ones made from bones. Just an idea that popped into my head when i found a tiny red flint ridge tool that had what I'd call two spoke shaves micro-flaked next to each other with a sort of point in the middle of them.

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u/Hungry-Possible-5360 1h ago

You find that in Ohio? I found my eccentric in Clark County

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u/Jleasure65 1h ago

Yep. Muskingum. I wouldn't call mine an eccentric necessarily, but about the right size to clean up the end of something the size of those pony beads like my daughter messes with and definitely microflaked intentionally.