Black rhyolite scraper made from a broken stemmed point with one worn and smoothed edge and the remnants of a stem on one side.
Scrapers were used for many purposes including preparing hides, shaping wood, scraping meat off bones, and shaping bowls. Although this stemmed scraper cannot be specifically attributed to the Woodland Period, it was likely repurposed out of a broken stemmed point, which were made from the Early Archaic through the Woodland periods. Repurposing broken tools as new ones would have been a very resourceful use of materials.
