Hit the bean field again for some more brokes. Better than nothing!!!!! 06-06-09

[JUNKYARD DOG]

Spent a couple hours taking a row at a time, all I could come up with is brokes. Question, are most of these broke during manufacturing?? I have found probably 50-60 brokes on two rises in this field, i am going to get them all together this eve and see if any fit together. thanks for looking. Also is this a base of a paddle drill on the last pic.?? JYD......

[The Grim Reaper]

Most pieces are broken from farm equipment tearing them to pieces year after year, but some could possibly be broken from use.

[creek astronaut]

would have to agree that most of your brokes are due to farm equiptment.but sometimes if you are in a workshop you will find alot of brokes that are ancient breaks.cant tell if that is the base to a paddle drill,need to zoom out on the pic.even with all the brokes it was a good day of hunting.thx for sharing the pics.

[DemonCatSpaceStar]

JD,
You've been putting in some time walkin' . Great finds!

I have been looking at You Tube on channels- primitivepathways & Flintknappingtips & they're helping me to understand a lot with the way points & stuff are made. I don't know how much you know about knapping but you might check it out.

I'm sure they have plenty of other channels but these I just stumbled on.


8)
Phil

[tchaire]

Good finds, great material. Hopefully you'll be able to match a few of them up. Just found
a broken axe the other day with multiple surface rust streaks (I assume from being struck
by a plow.) The break looks "recent" and am hoping that I'll be able to find the missing piece.

T.

[JUNKYARD DOG]

Thanks DorkFish for the reply, its unfortunate but its that much better when you find a good one.

would have to agree that most of your brokes are due to farm equiptment.but sometimes if you are in a workshop you will find alot of brokes that are ancient breaks.cant tell if that is the base to a paddle drill,need to zoom out on the pic.even with all the brokes it was a good day of hunting.thx for sharing the pics.

thanks greg-rocks heres a couple more pictures of the piece, tell me what you think or anyone else please chime away.
DeamonCatSpaceStar thanks for the info i will check those sites out. Thanks tchaire and I hope you find that piece for that axe.

Anyone know what type this lithic is? Thanks. JYD....

[creek astronaut]

sure looks like it could be a drill base.

[uniface]

A comment from the peanut gallery, for what it's worth (assuming anything) :

A lot of times people (IMHO) miss what something is by assuming that every piece of knapped chert was on its way to becoming a point (or whatever), and discarded when that didn't work out.

Oftentimes, while there are edges on stuff like you're showing that could have been (and maybe were) used to cut, chop or scrape something, if you think the way they did rather than the way we do, a light starts coming on.

While a bifacially-worked knife may be your tool of choice for heavy work, for finer jobs (like gutting a fish or cutting off bites of meat, Esquimo-style), the thin edge of a freshly-struck flake is the sharpest cutter you can possibly come up with. This gets us into the argument over whether a utilized flake was a "tool" or not (which depends on how you define "tool"), but points to the probable function of (many of) the innumerable blocky, chunky pieces on habitation sites as flake cores. Chunks of chert with edges suitable for removing flakes.

This is kind of an inside-out way of looking at it, but it makes sense of what is otherwise just an improbable quantity of "debitage."

[Ohio_Doug]

I see alot of cutlery tools and scrappers. Maybe 2 or 3 possible broken points. All nice finds indeed, keep up the good work

P.S. Is the chipmunk a good luck charm or did ya find him in the field too?

[JUNKYARD DOG]

I see alot of cutlery tools and scrappers. Maybe 2 or 3 possible broken points. All nice finds indeed, keep up the good work

P.S. Is the chipmunk a good luck charm or did ya find him in the field too?

I dont really know where the little gopher-munk came from but he sure is a picture-hog.. Thanks for the reply.... JYD...

[JUNKYARD DOG]

DID SOMEONE SAY PEANUT GALLERY !!!!!!!

[creek astronaut]

did i hear peanut gallery