Cool Weather Brings Gifts

[georgia flatlander]

Some rain on Friday brought cooler weather and soft ground, and I was able to hunt my Early and late Archaic sites today.
I found a Big Sandy, what I believe is a Graham Cave and a nice Dalton.
At the other site I found something that resembles a cross between an Adena and a Savannah River. It is very cool and in great condition.
I also found what looks to be an early example of a Waller Knife by its shape, but is flaked on both sides. Maybe it's just coincidental, but it looks like one anyway.

 

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[Hawks88]

Wow! Great finds. Congrats

 

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[georgia flatlander]

Wow those are nice they all look perfect! Did you find any brokes or anything lol!

I found 2 broken Daltons and about 20-30 various broken points between the two sites. There is one other area that I think is either a manufacturing site or a former trash pit. There are large flint cores and hundreds of broken points and blades. There are also caches of fire rock, which leads me to believe they manufactured tools there, but in any case it's a very unique site.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Great looking finds. Not sure what that big one is but it's not an Adena. Way to far south of the distribution range for you to have found hundreds of them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adena_culture

 

[georgia flatlander]

Great looking finds. Not sure what that big one is but it's not an Adena. Way to far south of the distribution range for you to have found hundreds of them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adena_culture

I would call these Adenas, and though they may be a little larger than normal, we've found hundreds of them. If they are known by another name or I've got the type wrong, please let me know what they are. ProjectilePoints.net shows their distribution range as being further north, but their trading influence expanding to a much greater area. It's the only type I can find that's similar.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Probably Waubesa Points which are Early Hopewell or Middle Woodland period in your area. I don't think the Adena went that far south but I could be wrong. They are killer pieces for sure. Maybe Neanderthal-Matt Rowe will see this and give his opinion.

 

[ptsofnc]

All were found digging in different sites. The large Tallahatta knife was about 48" down from the existing soil line. The early Archaic items were closer to the surface, but in an a different area where the grade has eroded substantially over the past few thousand years.

You are a lucky man! Envious.

 

[GaRebel1861]

That's a good day! Very nice finds.

 

[rock]

Big nice pieces, congrats
If it ever stops raining here maybe I will be able to get out.