Flake
- Museum number:
- TEMP 2019.0025
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm2xtemp+2019@2e0025
- Alternate number:
- 5965 (field number, Crossed out)
- Accession number:
- Acc.UCAS-355
- Description:
- Burnt flake (scraper?), possibly chert, front broken and separated.
- Donor:
- University Appropriation and University of California Archaeological Survey
- Collection place:
- Humboldt Lake, Churchill County, Nevada
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Bag says Humboldt lake
- Collection date:
- unknown
- Object type:
- archaeology
- Object class:
- Flakes (lithics)
- Accession date:
- April 29, 1955
- Context of use:
- Burial.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Comment:
- 1-162894c is a burnt core/flake/scraper (?), front is broken and separated (fire cracked). The object is in a bag labeled Hum Lake Nev and has a crossed out field (?) number: 5696 or 5695 (hard to read correctly). Catalog card for 1-162894 say Artifact and faunal remains - original number 12-9264 from CA-CCo-15. 1-162894, which includes also 2 other fragments of faunal remains was then submitted as Associated funerary object I personally tend to question the HSR number and provenience that are associated with 1-162894. Given an early image in the site record binder of the skull from CA-CCo-15 (burial 1) the flake must have been within the soil inside the skull and previously unseen. If the flake was removed from inside the skull why writing a field (?) number and then crossing it out. Did the other 2 fragments (currently at Regatta) receive the same field (?) number? Until we check the situation with the other components at Regatta (or find the original NSF notes) I would be more inclined to assign this object to the provenience written on the bag (Hum Lake Nev) rather than CA-CCo-15.
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