🥇 BANNER Tennessee Artifact Hunt!! Yeee-Haaa 2-28-10

[Tnmountains]

Boy have I been missing T-Net and artifacts. Watching everyone posting and not having time to go was killing me. We have been flooded all winter but the water dropped and it was 32 degrees when I hitched the boat this morning.Just perfect. There are hundreds of trees down and washing out from the floods. I saw one boat all day and got a picture of his catch. For me it was a great day. I have not even attempted typology on all of these other than being stoked on getting the little Hamilton triangular. I hunted over a 10 mile stretch of friends muddy fields. Please feel free to give opinions on the one particular hornstone point from the insitu. Thanks everyone. Its good to be back !
TnMountains


What we call a turtle back scrapper



Opinions please....


The high water on the banks of the fields.


Insitu and point.

I kept seeing this guy checking his trot line. Stopped and talked to him he had a boat load of catfish.

Total for the day some cool tools.

My best find. Maybe?
HH
TnMountains

 

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[Tnmountains]

That is a great Clovis.

Did you see any other materials in the spot where you found the Clovis point? Do you think there is a contemporary activity area in that spot, or do you think the Clovis is an isolated find from hunting activities or from river action?

If you did find any flakes, cores, etc., I would love to see some pictures.

That Clovis stuff is pretty special. I have spent more time than you would believe walking the American West. Encounters with the Clovis people are very rare.

Plehbah
Thank you. The state is wanting to add its location to the the southeast's fluted point survey database. I contacted many of your peers in the Archaeological community for typology and opinions.I had a expert in paleoindians in this area give his opinion. The concensus was from "the pictures" a heavily resharpened fluted Clovis.
The site is a very high bank with all materials traveling out of the bank and a very short distance to water.I normally do not stop there because nothing ever sticks or stays there long and is swept quickly to deep water by wave action.
I feel there is contemporary activity in this area but had felt this was an isolated incident. I might be able to obtain permission to test dig the area above on the high ground from where it came it being private property. The area is documented from paleo to de -soto to the trail of tears. I found a broke Dalton several hundred yards away as well as a recent 500 year old Hamilton.
These broken river cobble cores and a chert core and a knapped "what is it "where in this spot . In the second picture is the total right after the hunt un cleaned. I chunked the slate uni type piece but looking at the pictures now notice edge work.
Hopefully I will at some point find a true paleo spot without all the debris of other cultures mixed in. That's what I am trying to learn to recognise.
This forum has helped me a lot.
TnMtns

 

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[seaguy]

Congrats there TnMtns ! I don't think there is any question about that clovice. I know I'd proudly call it that even if the Smithsonian wouldn't pay a 100 for it. I have seen a great many of them in shows over the years even back when they were mostly genuine. There was a great variance in them which one should expect since they weren't all made by the same guy. I used to hunt in the Limestone creek area and I saw several made of that type flint even though the local stone was tan.

 

[Tnmountains]

Congrats there TnMtns ! I don't think there is any question about that clovice. I know I'd proudly call it that even if the Smithsonian wouldn't pay a 100 for it. I have seen a great many of them in shows over the years even back when they were mostly genuine. There was a great variance in them which one should expect since they weren't all made by the same guy. I used to hunt in the Limestone creek area and I saw several made of that type flint even though the local stone was tan.

Welcome to T-Net Sea guy !!

I appreciate your knowledge. Had a lot of Archaeologist look at it and Tennessee's expert in paleoindian in Tennessee. They concur. The value will never be an issue for me as this is just a hobby with never ending knowledge and lots of friends with plenty of miles in between. I also trust the knowledge by the many collectors on this board.
Welcome and have fun.
TnMtns

 

[cowboykelly]

Wow, great day of arrowhead huntin! Awesome post! Just remember, keep looking down on the world!

 

[jamey]

wow/well done,i mised alot i see.happy or ya, jamey

 

[HISPAN]

Nice finds....congrats !

 

[natchitoches]

you got my vote too
mr TnMountains
great looking point
lj

 

[Gunrunner61]

TnMtn, Congrats on your finds and I too think ya broke into the "Paleo" era, I gotta get back into the rocks, I've had no luck since I moved to Dalton, But then Again I had no Civil War relics until I moved to Dalton. LOL...........Congrats amd .......HH

 

[rock]

I figured I would bring this back to the top seeing I had never seen this thread. What a great find!

 

[Tnmountains]

Thanks Rock. The very next weekend I found a Beaver lake and now nothing older than kirks or daltons. Maybe some tools but without context they are just tools. That elusive site is out there but it is like a treasure legend you could spend you life looking for. I have seen many finer specimens found. My area is known for copying styles and they used to say we had pockets of paleo stuck here in the S.E. but I am not sure of that.Thanks for bringing this old post back up but the cool thing is if you look back and use the advanced search you can find many and better hunts than this one. Thanks for your kind words.

 

[larson1951]

love that first point on your initial post
still remember it well

 

[NC field hunter]

Man! A day for your personal history book! Thanks Rock for pulling this back up!!

 

[Tnmountains]

Thanks everyone this is a pretty old post. I think a lot of people have some really cool old post buried in this place. I still have all those pieces.

 

[Treefrog]

great finds Richard... glad to see you getting the time for a hunt!!!

 

[steve71]

looks like a clovis congrats

 

[GatorBoy]

I have no idea how I mised this post.... huge congrats!!!!! you beat me to the club. beautiful Clovis

 

[NC field hunter]

I have no idea how I mised this post.... huge congrats!!!!! you beat me to the club. beautiful Clovis

He beat you by a couple of years!!

 

[GatorBoy]

And counting.

 

[NC field hunter]

And counting.

Don't feel bad! I'm in the same boat. I have found banner stuff, just found it before I joined T-Net!!

 

[outlawatheart]

very, very did I say VERY NICE TN!!