{"id":2404,"date":"2018-06-29T18:14:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T01:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/?p=2404"},"modified":"2023-09-30T12:30:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T19:30:56","slug":"paleo-quartzite-knife-scraper-biface-alberta-pincher-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/paleo-quartzite-knife-scraper-biface-alberta-pincher-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"Paleo Quartzite Biface Knife\/Scraper Stone Tool Alberta Pincher Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paleo Quartzite Biface Knife\/Scraper Alberta Pincher Creek<\/p><\/div>\n

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Paleo Quartzite Biface Knife\/Scraper Alberta Pincher Creek<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n

Paleo Quartzite Biface Knife\/Scraper found on Victoria Peak. Dated between 6,000 and 12,000 years old. We were descending a drainage with multi-colored limestones and shales(reds, tans, yellows) and the grey color and shape caught my eye. At first I thought it was a spear point but no notches or fluting and has a rounded bottom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The maker would have used an antler point to pop flakes off to create the sharp edges. That design and material was in use from 12,000+ years ago by the Clovis people and subsequent peoples. There is a Clovis site in Montana(12 to 13000 years) that is not far away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The drainage is a funnel with natural choke points so hunters could have driven game(sheep?) down the drainage to waiting hunters with spears or bow\/arrows. There is still a sheep herd on the mountain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reported it to the Alberta Archaeology Dept and they created an archaeological site. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pictures –<\/a> see pics at end of folder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paleo Quartzite Biface Knife\/Scraper found on Victoria Peak. Dated between 6,000 and 12,000 years old. We were descending a drainage with multi-colored limestones and shales(reds, tans, yellows) and the grey color and shape caught my eye. At first I thought … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[233,236,234,232,235,231],"class_list":["post-2404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scramble","tag-biface","tag-knife","tag-paleo","tag-quartzite","tag-scraper","tag-stone-tool"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2404"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3871,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions\/3871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}