Scraper, thumbnail scraper
This multi-purpose stone tool is known as a thumbnail scraper. This example comes from the south east USA, but scrapers are known from many time periods across the world. They could have been used in a wide variety of craft activities, for example wood or leather working.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 54/1948/54
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Tools for farm and craft
- Collection Area Region
- N
- Material
- chert (heat-treated)
- Common Name
- scraper, thumbnail scraper
- Simple Name
- scraper
- Production County
- South East USA
- Production Country
- United States of America
- Production Date
- Early Archaic
- Production Year Low
- 6500BP
- Production Year High
- 5500BP
