pin ^n' 1st*' HOSTERMAN site — ^MILLER 205 



Pap. No. 35] 



METERS 



Figure 51. — Burin with arrows indicating position and direction of flaking. 



BURINLIKE IMPLEMENTS 



Burinlike implements have not been recognized as part of the usual 

 cultural assemblage of the Plains. This does not exclude the fact that 

 such implements were manufactured and used by the occupants of the 

 Plains, for, in the past, they were mostly overlooked and very little 

 attention has been given to other than well recognized artifacts of es- 

 tablished categories. 



More and more attention is being given to spalls and to the 

 so-called broken artifact as well as to the castoff material resulting 

 from the manufacture of stone artifacts. In this mass of material 

 there have been found many heretofore unrecognized artifacts that 

 have enriched the cultural picture of the Plains. True, the source of 

 the various types of stone cannot always be traced since the Plains 

 have been subjected to glacial action; neither can it be told just how 

 far the material used in the manufacture of stone material was car- 

 ried. Unless there are undisturbed deposits nearby or within reason- 

 able distance of the sites mider investigation, we cannot be certain 

 that it is of local origin. Therefore, artifacts must be classified 

 according to the type of stone from which they were made without 

 any reference as to source. 



This is true of an unusual chalcedony artifact recovered from Fea- 

 ture 3, a cache pit, at a depth of between 2.0 feet and 2.5 feet from the 

 present surface. This is a combination tool, scraper — ^burin ^ (pi. 28, 

 B^ and fig. 51). One end has been shaped into a well-made end 

 scraper and the opposite end has been altered into what has been classi- 

 fied as resembling a type of burin known as an angle burin with a 



5 Both Drs. H. R. CoUlns and R. SolecM have examined this artifact and have classified 

 it as a true burin. 



