45KT28. Steatite bead recovered from the beach, possibly the reworked base of a tube pipe

 

SUNSET CREEK SITE REPORT
Figure 58. SCRAPERS, Styles 1 and 2.

 

Grey scale as in the report (scale bar is one inch) [344-345]

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Style 1, a-e; Style 2, f-g. Cultural Component VII, Subcomponent: VIIA, b, g; VIIB, c; VIID, a, d; VIIL, f; und., c. Cryptocrystalline silica, a-g.


A substantial majority of the specimens included in Scraper Styles 1 and 2 are incorrectly identified. Most are plunging flakes from blocky and discoidal cores that have removed a striking platform, which has been incorrectly identified as a scraping edge.


 

LAST REVISED: 16 MAY 2015