SECOND NATIVE AMERICAN ARTIFACT...

[picnic42]

So after finding that one large "flake or chip" and not thinking much about it... I continued walking around the unplowed field closer to the creek. This field had not been touched since last year and was full of debris from the corn stalks... it was cut down after harvest last year... so the ground was covered with corn cobs and stalks and leaves. Every little bit the ground showed thru and that is what I looked over closely.

There it was my FIRST point! Now... since I did not think of that earlier "flake or chip" as being anything... This new find took me to a place of deep history.... all of a sudden everything was quite... I heard nothing... I was in the past... deep into the early years of mankind!
I was holding history.... I was holding a piece not touched in many many years. I had in my hands what a man had spent hours to make in order to survive. I was honored!

So..... Please tell me this is a good find... please tell me it is indeed something left behind by early man.

So between my wife and I... we both found something yesterday... and in different places! We both had our FIRST FINDS... and I have to say... she found "OUR" first find... FIRST!

Tell me what you think.... is it anything? age? type? etc.

Ralph

[ohio]

It is a piece of a crude tool but, indeed an artifact. Congrats! I am sure you will find some more if you keep at it.

Chuck

[larson1951]

chuck is right
keep looking around there and you will probably find some more
larson1951

[picnic42]

I am so very new to this... but in my mind's eye... I thought this to be a point of some sort... and on pictures 2 & 3 I felt it looks like it was broken... like the bottom half, the base, is missing. I will take more pics, I know it is a bit thick... the small dark spot in the middle is the thickest part.
I accept it for what ever it is... I am still THRILLED!
Ralph

[larson1951]

yes 42 it is a point with the base missing
a lot of the time it is broken from farm equipment
we call it a "broke"
lars

[picnic42]

yes 42 it is a point with the base missing
a lot of the time it is broken from farm equipment
we call it a "broke"
lars

Any idea of time period? Paleo? or whatever?
Thanks again.

[ohio]

Technically it is also a fossil as it was knapped from fossiliferous chert that is common in KY. Those small inclusions are pieces of small ocean going critters from long ago i.e. crinoids, brachiopods, and sponges.

Chuck

[picnic42]

Technically it is also a fossil as it was knapped from fossiliferous chert that is common in KY. Those small inclusions are pieces of small ocean going critters from long ago i.e. crinoids, brachiopods, and sponges.

Chuck

FANTASTIC... gotta love this hobby!
by this looks of it can you tell what period it was knapped and what period of Native Americans used this? Am I saying it right?

[ohio]

No, I would not say you could tell a time frame from this particular artifact. You may be able to make a guess if it was found in association with more definitive items. Cultures in all time frames made tools such as this. Just my honest opinion.

Chuck