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Hi All,
I'm new to this forum - though I've been looking for indian artifacts (unsuccessfully) in my area for a few years now. People don't find artifacts up here as often as some of you folks further south along the eastern seabord, I'm not sure if that's because of the types of stone they had available or the population density or what, but when people find even a single spearpoint it tends to make the news if they want it to. My brother and I headed out today along a local river that is so low right now that there is a good 10-15ft on either side where you can walk on the muddy riverbed and see the exposed banks, which are essentially all mud/clay. This piece was sticking out of the bank about halfway, dull end out, but looked somewhat out of place so I pulled it out. Lo and behold it the other end looked too pretty to be natural! I've seen other examples of adzes found in Down East Maine that look quite similar (from the red paint people period), but I'm in no way an archaeologist or anthropologist, just good at using the internet and Control+F.
It doesn't really look like a type of stone that is common around here, and I have no idea how old it could be. Any ideas?
Thanks!
I'm new to this forum - though I've been looking for indian artifacts (unsuccessfully) in my area for a few years now. People don't find artifacts up here as often as some of you folks further south along the eastern seabord, I'm not sure if that's because of the types of stone they had available or the population density or what, but when people find even a single spearpoint it tends to make the news if they want it to. My brother and I headed out today along a local river that is so low right now that there is a good 10-15ft on either side where you can walk on the muddy riverbed and see the exposed banks, which are essentially all mud/clay. This piece was sticking out of the bank about halfway, dull end out, but looked somewhat out of place so I pulled it out. Lo and behold it the other end looked too pretty to be natural! I've seen other examples of adzes found in Down East Maine that look quite similar (from the red paint people period), but I'm in no way an archaeologist or anthropologist, just good at using the internet and Control+F.
It doesn't really look like a type of stone that is common around here, and I have no idea how old it could be. Any ideas?
Thanks!
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The waterways give up some goodies from time to time once you learn how to look on them.Here there such small areas to look as there is not much distance from water edge to banks.Unless it's really low tide.That's a nice one you found there.They don't turn up here very often but I found a few.One of mine has a nice edge like yours.
