Pictures of artifacts

[Freemindedclark]

Pictures of artifacts please

I am starting this thread in the hopes that the members of this forum will flood it with pictures of all the various artifacts they have found and or collected over time. I figured this thread could provide novice hunters and collectors with a vast wealth from which to learn from and compare to.

I thank you all for helping further my education as well as others.

 

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[tomclark]

Oh maeon dem are sum nice bolos!! (bola)

 

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[arrow86]

Dentalium shells from Oregon,native money. Longest is 1 1/4"

Really neat pieces , especially the engraved ones

 

[newnan man]

Obsidian points from Crump Lake, Or.

 

[welsbury]

Really neat pieces , especially the engraved ones

Thanks arrow. Found the 4 that are engraved at one time.

 

[RustyRelics]

Four broken Texas Paleo points. Personal finds from a friend. The biggest on is about 2-3mm thick!

 

[southfork]

From Sacramento Valley N. California mound #9 1936 .

 

[Saguache]

Oh My, just a stunning piece.

 

[MAMucker]

Here’s a good size oval Thumb Scraper made of Rhyolite with meticulous micro-flaking all the way around the bit-end. (A favorite personal find)

 

[Aurora1959]

I'm wondering why we don't find metal arrowheads/ points. White traders sold them to the natives by the millions.... where are they.

Brass arrowheads are found fairly frequently in Central New York on Haudenosaunee village sites.

 

[Charl]

This class of artifact is mostly a Northeast tool form, often called an ulu, after the Eskimo knife form of the same name. Technically, the term used for these is semilunar knife. Seen here are a slate comb-back ulu, from Ma., and a personal find flake ulu, from RI, basically created by simply notching a large spall. These are Archaic in age.







I like the grade of slate on this broken comb-back. I believe it would have been around 7" wide:

 

[sandchip]

Some pichuhs of my ho'. First Indian artifact I ever found. I often wonder at the force required to drive a flake this large (9") off a hardstone core. These guys were no wimps, for sure.

 

[RustyRelics]

Some pichuhs of my ho'. First Indian artifact I ever found. I often wonder at the force required to drive a flake this large (9") off a hardstone core. These guys were no wimps, for sure.

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First off, don't say that phrase in Atlanta, lest you get mugged!


Second, I believe the rock was originally "unifaced" instead of them driving a flake that large. If that was a flake, they must've had one hell of a hammerstone!

 

[RustyRelics]

Kings Crowns, and Strombus shell hammers from the Manasota culture of Tampa Bay (500 BCE - 900 AD), gifted by my friend, Tom Clark.




Shell net weights, from the same area, also found by Tom Clark.

 

[sandchip]

...I believe the rock was originally "unifaced" instead of them driving a flake that large. If that was a flake, they must've had one hell of a hammerstone!

Respectfully, every uniface artifact has its origins as a flake driven off a core, whether by man or I guess in some cases, by natural forces. I'm still led to believe that this one was taken off a large core by man, one, because of the typical curvature of the piece, and two, evidence on the top side of two adjacent longitudinal flake scars from flakes removed for other tools prior to this one. I do agree that it had to take one hell of a hammerstone and a tremendous amount of force.

 

[joshuaream]

I often wonder at the force required to drive a flake this large (9") off a hardstone core. These guys were no wimps, for sure.

Some of the massive greenstone (massive being a geologic term associated with the formation of the greenstone, not an indicator of size really) deposits in Alabama & Tennessee will spall/chip with some force. The Hillabee area was the tool source Moundville & a lot of Etowah if I remember correctly. Cobbles were used for axes as is with simple pecking and grinding, but some of the long celts and your type of hoe were probably spalled off larger blocks by using a large cobble as a hammerstone.

I'd guess the process probably had a pretty high failure rate, but if you had a strong back (or maybe teenagers with you) and some time, you could smash rocks for a while and get some usable blanks.

 

[tomclark]

 

[Freemindedclark]

This has turned out better than I could have ever hoped for. Thank you very much everyone. I love the variety. Keep them coming.

 

[Freemindedclark]

Here are a couple of scrappers I found the other day

 

[tomclark]

Woodland midden points.. Pinellas Co., FL

 

[GB Paleo]

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