Artifacts from the garden

[Jimmypop]

Two very small but complete stone somethings I found recently . The fat one may be a tiny scraper and the other looks drillish but both have a lot of curvature being made from flakes...but I really don't have a good thought about either. They are both made from the same material that is strange to me, not from our farm. Any ideas?

 

[NCHillbilly]

Those look to have been made with micro-blades struck from a core. Those are usually really old, or fairly recent. Paleo people made them, and Woodland people, but not many folks in between.

 

[Jimmypop]

What were they used for? I don't think drill...too dull . Fat one wouldn't be much of a scraper either .

 

[NCHillbilly]

Who knows? Imagine somebody 2,000 years from now trying to figure out what we used a Tupperware lettuce keeper, butt-out tool, eyelash curler, or valve spring compressor for.

 

[Para Bellum]

Who knows? Imagine somebody 2,000 years from now trying to figure out what we used a Tupperware lettuce keeper, butt-out tool, eyelash curler, or valve spring compressor for.

This made my morning. And so true.

 

[Timberman]

butt-out tool

That one would be a doozy

 

[Jimmypop]

What's a butt-out tool?

 

[NCHillbilly]

What's a butt-out tool?

It's this little orange plastic contraption that a lot of suburban hunters buy to loosen and remove the anal orifice of a deer when you're gutting it. I don't know why, but apparently, they think you need one?

https://www.amazon.com/Hunters-Specialties-Butt-Game-Dressing/dp/B002ECKYSA

 

[Jimmypop]

Thanks...that's good to know....I think I need one . I'm on my way to the hardware store.