Rlv. Bas. Sur. 

 Pap. No. 35] 



HOSTERMAN SITE — MILLER 



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MBTERS 



Figure SO. — Keeled scraper types. 



In others the back was shnply left in its original form, often showing 

 longitudinal facets where previous flakes had been struck off the core. 

 It would appear that the makers were not overly concerned with the 

 method by which the result was obtained so long as a serviceable 

 implement resulted" (Spaulding, 1956, pp. 43-44). Nor were they 

 concerned as to the final shape taken by the implement whether it was 

 trianguloid, rhomboidal, or rectangular. There is quite a range in 

 size as to length, width, and thickness. 



Lehmer (1954, pp. 57-58), in studying the Dodd site, separated the 

 end scrapers into five distinct groups depending somewhat upon their 

 outline and method of chipping to determine the shape. These same 

 forms, as well as others, occur at the Hosterman site in quantity. 



Keeled end scrapers (fig. 50). — Scrapers of this class were made 

 from flakes having flat to concave ventral surfaces and a single ridged 

 dorsal surface. The working edge has been rounded and steeply re- 

 touched. Sides taper somewhat to a blunt squared end. Scrapers of 

 this type have been subdivided into type 1 and type 2 (pi. 25). 



Type 1 keeled end, scrapers. — This type of scraper, represented by 75 speci- 

 mens, has all sides retouched with the small fluted scars meeting at a central 

 ridge or keel. Overall length varies from 20 mm. to 37 mm.; overall width 

 from 15 mm. to 27 mm. ; and overall thickness from 7 mm. to 12 mm. Mean read- 

 ings would be lengths, 25 mm. ; widths, 22 mm, ; and thickness, 9 mm. 



The retouching along the sides rises up fanwise to a single rounded keel on 

 the dorsal surface varying the thickness of the specimen so that no two are 

 exactly of a uniform thickness. The presence of this type of chipping indicates 

 that the person creating such an artifact was most capable in his ability to 

 cast ofC these long thin chips uniformly and regularly. 



