Here's an interesting little artifact that we found on a Pre-Dorset site in Nunavut this summer. Its an endscraper, with a smooth working edge and deeply serrated hafting area. A lot of the diagnostic tools from this particular site had serrated bases. It was my first time seeing this sort of treatment on bases, but I guess it does show up in the early Palaeoeskimo toolkits.
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| That's a 5cm scale. |
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| Its a cool way to rough up the hafting area. Its almost the opposite of notches - its more like spines, which seems really odd to me, but I guess it was the right way to haft things for the folks using this site sometime in the centuries around 3500 years ago. |
Photo Credit: Tim Rast
Here's an interesting little artifact that we found on a Pre-Dorset site in Nunavut this summer. Its an endscraper, with a smooth working edge and deeply serrated hafting area. A lot of the diagnostic tools from this particular site had serrated bases. It was my first time seeing this sort of treatment on bases, but I guess it does show up in the early Palaeoeskimo toolkits.
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