Nice little Marrow Mountain

[1badtacoma]

Found this in my new field also found a little bit of pottery. Still need more rain to uncover more of the good stuff.

[Pinellas Man]

Nice. 8) Good luck when you get the rain so we can see more pics from you.

[11KBP]

Nice point!

[gilmerman]

That's so familiar to me. North Ga gives up many Marrow Mt's and the same kind of quartz. Thanks.

[Ohio_Doug]

Nice little point, congrats

[Molly.]

Sweet little Morrow Mountain. Congrats on your find.

Molly.

[Molly.]

Here's mine, the only one I have ever found whole in quartz.

[1badtacoma]

There is no fracture on it. It is a little skewed though. I dont think they used it as a knife though. I dont there there is really any specific knife type in NC, I could be wrong though. Molly any help on this subject? They mainly used what i call scapers. I have found other knifes, usually one edge of the blade would be worn down more. Here is a nice knife that I found a while back.

[SouthernGirl]

I find some crystal flakes but never a point. Nice find!

[Airborne80]

Awesome point!

[Molly.]

There is no fracture on it. It is a little skewed though. I dont think they used it as a knife though. I dont there there is really any specific knife type in NC, I could be wrong though. Molly any help on this subject? They mainly used what i call scapers. I have found other knifes, usually one edge of the blade would be worn down more. Here is a nice knife that I found a while back.

There are knives/blades types. The Waller Knife for example, found in Piedmont. I'm sure there are more. But I think they made their blades/knives crudly as to discard them once used. I have lots of blades all different shapes, some arched,straight,square. I have learnt since hunting here that most of the artifacts were indeed crudly made, it seems a rarity to actually find a beauty, whether its down to materials, (rhyolite being the prime material) or whether the points/blades being disguarded/lost, I'm not sure.(throwaway type thing)
It also seems that later culture The woodland period made much finer points but again their blades/knives were crudly made also..
Which leaves me thinking they weren't too fussed on what the blades looked like as long as they got the job done, in Archaic & Woodland periods.
When I first started hunting, some of the points/blades I was finding were indeed crude, still are. Now we all know these ppl were artists so, that leaves me thinking it was down to the material. As to be because in my 200 finds I have only found 3 or 4 FINELY made points. Suprises me that compaired to other state types, ours are so crudly made. I have to put it down to the material I'm affraid.
Also as we know the Lanceolates were utilized as knives/blades & broken points hafted used for scrapping/cutting.

So is it the material or the fact as long as it gets the job done, no matter what it looks like?

Alls I can say is I wish I had met Greg Perino, he was born here on the Eastern Seaboard, I would have sat hours with that guy. I have so many unanswered questions.
I read somewhere that Greg identified the Guilford Yuma, dating this Lanceolate as indeed Early Archaic. I believe these types 'Guilfords' were a prime use for knives/blades, so maybe that's why there aren't many actual typed knives?

Hope this helps. I am still learning like everyone else.

Molly.