All used up

**Adena_man** · Oct 03, 2008, 11:03 AM

These artifacts were used, abused, and used again. Then they had to contend with the plow thousands of years later. The corner notch was made of a very pretty material. It was broken and then made into a spokeshave. Then it was finally thrown out. The side-notch on the bottom left would have been a big one. Look at the top notch and the size of the base. It was broken, turned into a scraper, and later thrown out. The top right point could have been paleo or it could have been woodland as I have seen publications where there were points made with a concave base that are sometimes mistaken for paleo. It was broken and then a new point was fashioned on the end. The dovetail almost made me cry! It was definitely broken, re-done, reused, and thrown out. Then came the plow. The top left point, well, pitiful is all I can say!

Look at the end, though. This point was found this way and was not altered by me. Look at the difference in patina. I don't think a plow did that. It would have sheared the whole end off. Were some parts of points more subject to patinization than others? I always thought that one side of a point would have the same amount of patinization unless some parts weren't subjected to the same acidic parts of soil? I'm no geologist by any means.

I know these aren't whole G-10 points, but I figured it might be a new topic for discussion. Anybody else have used and reused points? I think they have their own beauty in a way. Just think of the stories these worn-out tools could tell!

Thanks for looking!

Brian