My first Paleo Blade

[NC_Hunting]

Nice find SS ... that is one huge blade ... congratz on a good one ~ Jimmy

[Clovis]

Very nice. The chipping is great and size. WOW! Lucky.

[Out4gold]

Your specimen is un-finished,
but always a good find.
Out4gold

[carolinagirl69]

That's pretty awesome!

[Clovis]

With the size of it I would say it could be used like a hand axe or celt. I doesn't appear to have the fine edge work of a hide scraper or something like that. It is beautiful tho.

I have also heard it theorized large blades like that were used as "blanks" that could be carried along on a hunting trip or to a new camp. That way if a new knife or arrowhead was needed there would already be basic shape and size to work with. All that would be needed would be to finish out the shape and finer edge work. A time saver I guess. I don't know if that's true or not (guess we never will) but it seems like a reasonable idea.