Recognize type or material??

[tomclark]

Anyone ever see this material or a point type like it When I was about 12 I was helping my father paint the inside of a house in NJ where an archaeologist lived. During lunch I got real excited and he gave me this point, I've had it for over 46 years or so and never remembered what he said except it was a nice one. LOL. Doesn't even look like any material, type or work from the US I've ever seen. Basal thinning, pretty good work, the very tip looks like it has a burin.......






Ever see such a thang??

 

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[rock]

Looks like some chert from GA but it might just be patina making it that way. round based guilford?

 

[GatorBoy]

Tom... That reminds me of those ooooooold ones from across the pond. "Acheulian"

 

[tomclark]

Tom... That reminds me of those ooooooold ones from across the pond. "Acheulian"

Don't it?!?!?!?
Might just send this one off, since I didn't find it, to an authenticator.......only second time I've ever done that....just to find out what material/area.....but myself and others on these boards are probably more than adequate to get that info.
I know it ain't Florida, LOL.

 

[GatorBoy]

For sure.

 

[yakker]

The material looks a bit like either coastal chert or jasper from PA (banded?). It's weathered and is developing (or was developing) a light/white 'crust', but you can see what's beneath. I see chunks of that rock around here (not far from NJ) that were cracked open- either by humans or nature, where the weathered exterior gives way to that darker caramel brown, often banded w/ black. I think I have a piece that looks similar in style, but I may have given it to the dentist whose property it was found on. I'll look around. It's quartz, so a bit different- and harder to examine flaking style- if you can see it at all.
Cool piece. I'd be interested in what you find out! Yakker

 

[Twitch]

Just to add to the confusion, that could very easily be an early archaic blade from Southern Illinois or Western Kentucky. Cobb, Stanfield, Tennessee River knife. If I found that laying out there it wouldn't look in the least bit out of place.

 

[Edmundruffin]

Did you find it wadded up in a section of deep sea fishing net??

 

[GatorBoy]

Did you find it wadded up in a section of deep sea fishing net??

You're not going to suggest it belonged to a mermaid are you?

 

[rock]

So does this look like a match for you Tom? Im not sure if it is chert or wood. Found in N GA in my backyard while mowing.