South-central Indiana finds from this past spring Part 1

[Kantuckkeean]

Thanks for posting all of the great articles and artifacts everyone. After my son found that Clovis point, we got out some more, but I couldn't post. Since I'm now able to, I figured that that I'd share some more of our finds from this past spring, although none were as outstanding as the Clovis.

My two sons and I decided to check a field that we really hadn't hunted much, but figured that we'd give it a try since the conditions were good. The first day, we all found something to take home, which was nice.

The small Meadowwood was the best of that day and the base is really ground smooth, although the one scraper is pretty nice...


We went back shortly thereafter a couple of times and my son found another nicer hafted scraper to go along with the first and I found a preform and a stemmed point...


We also found a bunch more broken stuff and plenty of flakes, so we'll be checking out a couple of the areas again, whenever the ground is right.

Kindest regards,
Kantuck

 

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[antmike915]

Nice finds and killer material

 

[uniface]

That would have been close to the best day I ever had.

In pics 1 & 3, what you're calling a scraper is a microblade core. I knew they were from a Woodland era context, but never which one. Your finding one with a Meadowwood establishes the connection in my mind, if in no one else's.

Nice going.

 

[Kantuckkeean]

That would have been close to the best day I ever had.

In pics 1 & 3, what you're calling a scraper is a microblade core. I knew they were from a Woodland era context, but never which one. Your finding one with a Meadowwood establishes the connection in my mind, if in no one else's.

Nice going.

Thanks. Any day that me and both my boys find something is a great day! I'll look into microblade cores and see if it fits. Some of the flaking and beveling around the rounded portion made me think that it was used as a scraper and perhaps hafted.

Kindest regards,
Kantuck

 

[uniface]

Meadowwood guys loved exotic, high-quality chert and traded for it over longer distances than you ever see anything travel from around Middle Archaic on. Here in Pennsylvania, they gathered glacial pebbles of Onondaga, heat treated them, and (bi-polar percussion) split them into halves. These became microblade cores with little removals running from around the edge up toward the center (other, improvisatory shapes are found also).

In a lot of ways those people re-capitulated Paleo attitudes.

FWIW