Thin Chert Knife
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1958
name: label: Donor Name
content: Harry M. Trowbridge
label: Site Name
content: Craig Mound
notes: label: Notes
content: Original Catalog Number: 2919 Style: Ovoid A Raw Material 2: Kay County Raw Material Source: Flint Hills Luster: LS1 Shape/Form: Ovate Base: Convex Edge Modification: Bifacial thinning and secondary bifacial retouching. Manufacturing Notes: Asymmetry w/one edge straight and the other convex. Shallow notches very near base. A bit of unifacial notch retouch. Residue: Extensive brown sediment adheres to one face at tip. Use Trace: Dorsal ridges are well polished. Fine edge damage and rounding along lateral edges. Towards tip on both lateral edges, the brown residue is truncated, leaving a > 1mm wide residue free band along the edges. The piece must have been used in a cutting motion on a relatively soft material after the residue got onto the face. A couple of recent flake scars suggest the re-use may be recent, in most areas there are no such recent indicators, and the edges are well worn and polished. Comment: One of two large bifaces made of Kay County chert. Classic ovoid biface with typical asymmetry.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Oct 2015
label: Site Number
content: 34LF40
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Spiro, Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Prehistoric
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 228126
label: USNM Number
content: A423178-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 14.42 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 4.39 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 1.77 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 55.9 g
label: Proximal Stem Width
content: ca. 2.98 cm
label: Distal Stem Width
content: ca. 2.82 cm
label: Stem Length
content: ca. 1.88 cm