OK, I've got pictures of more stuff. This series of points were some that weren't found by me, but I own them now. The first is a couple of points that my Uncle, the one whom was the WWII Marine. He was in the Third Marine Division, and I remember that he fought on Guam and Iwo Jima. He came home from the war, got a job for the California Hiway Division, married, had a family, but the demons of war, what we now call PTSD, got him, and he died broke and without a family. But to this day he was my real life hero. He found some wonderful artifacts, but they were all sold or traded to buy the booze that kept him going, so these two points that I'm going to show you are extra special to me, because he found them, and they didn't get sold, because I ended up with them. The first one came from the San Luis Obispo area of the central California coast. I don't know what he did for the hiway department, but he wore clean pressed clothing, so he wasn't a machinery operator. I'm sure these points came from a road construction site, which in those days were just bulldozed away unless you were right there to pick them up.
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I remember the day my uncle and my dad sat at the dining room table, looking at points he found that day. The point above was the largest I'd ever seen up to that time, and to say the least I was bug eyed. It's made from some sort of red stone, perhaps jasper? My uncle left that point and another with my dad, and that's why I have them now. The second point, pictured below, is typical of that area, but I don't know for sure where he found it.
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The next frame is from another Uncle. He was born in 1906, and just passed away in 2009 at 103 years of age, and these points came into my possession. I know little about where he found them, but here is what I do know. Back in the 1920's he was working for a surveying outfit that was doing work for the power company. In those days they went into the Sierra high country and put dam across the outlet of a lot of the lakes, raising the level of the lake, storing water to generate electricity. From their camp, and I'm sure he said he was working in Amador County at the time, they had to hike in to the sites they were working. He told me that all these points were basically found along the trail.
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Below, I wish I could say I found this beautiful point, made from translucent obsidian, with some mossy looking inclusions. It's one of my favorites.
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The next photo shows another frame of points that are the same deal. Some of these aren't obsidian. The center is made from some kind of flint rock, the one in the bottom left corner is crude, and looks to me to be a much older point than the ones with it. On the right, the top one is a nice obsidian point, while the center and bottom are obsidian and are quite crude. Center on the left is either a scraper or knife but well made.
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This is a close up of the top right hand point, and below is the same deal for the center left scraper/knife.
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And finally, this is a close up of one of the points from the first frame. It's a very interesting point, and I personally have never found one that looks like this. I wonder if the serrations are made to hold poison on the point? This is the center right point in the first frame, the top right point in frame one is not made of obsidian, and it also has some serrations, but not near as deep. The center left point is another either knife or scraper, only much smaller than the one in the second frame.
Now this is a real pleasure to see these types. Give me a point with long barbs over a clovis anyday.
The 3rd pic down is a stunning frame. Second point an Eastgate & fourth top ( perfection ) probably are Columbian Plateau.
Center & the bottom 3rd are Rose Springs. ( I'm familuar with this type I have some )
Bottom second in, looks like a Merrybell related.
The two blunts look to be Emigrant springs, with the aricles broken off but, unsure they are found in your region.
The funky lookin point in the last pic is a Calapooya type.
The Lanceolate (pic 6) reminds me of a Black Rock Concave but unsure on that one.
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