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This is an unusual blade, even
for Spiro. It looks more like a digging tool than
a knife. It was obviously hafted in the midsection. The tip looks like it has taken a beating, with a few impact fractures that have been resharpened over a few times. They didn't have much agriculture at Spiro, mostly hunting and foraging, maybe this was used to dig roots or something. Definitely a favorite of mine... it is just odd enough to fit in my collection. It is 9 1/2 inches long, 2 inches wide and almost an inch thick, made of some great banded Kay County Chert. It was found in 1957 by Carl Clevenger, an amateur archaeologist, one of the founding members of the Oklahoma Anthropological Society and Arkansas Archaeological society. |
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