Native American, Midwestern to Southern United States, Arkansas & Missouri, Ramsey Cave, Archaic to Woodland periods, ca. 5000 BCE to 1000 CE. An interesting discoidal and a hand-knapped stone tool both made from chert. The flatter gray tool with broad flaking patterns is an oval knife or cache blade used for scraping and cutting hides or other material. The rounded discoidal with convex faces and dimples or shallow indentations on both sides, is unusual and an extremely rare type due to the use of chert. The exterior is a mottled orange-tan hue with gray banding within, suggesting a Crowley's Ridge type of chert primarily from the Arkansas and Missouri area. Size (discoidal): 3.25" Diameter x 1.5" W (8.3 cm x 3.8 cm)
Provenance: private Kansas City, Missouri, USA collection; ex-John Townsend collection, formed in the 1970s and earlier.
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Condition
Losses and abrasions to discoidal as shown, but reveals the banding pattern of the inner chert matrix. Old find site label on discoidal. Blade is intact and excellent with light earthen deposits along periphery.