That is so cool. It looks to me like there may be a lot of digging yet to go there, any idea yet of how deep the cultural deposits may go? I really like the smaller notched point from this dig, and the two you showed from the prior dig. Would you consider them mid or early archaic points, and do you think that shelter is pretty well stratified, or somehow has components mixed? That sure does look like a lot of flint, you just know some of it can be pieced back together, but with the amount it looks like you will end up with, it will be a lengthy process. Thanks for the photos and dig on!
your stuff looks pretty "recent"....suggests to me you need to go DEEPER...
1320 I know you are a pro on shelters but I have found outside of some of them especially if there are additional large boulders that they sometimes hold more than the shelter . Do you ever venture outside the overhang? It all depends I guess if it was just a seasonal nut hunting shelter or a lower elevation one used year round. I know old topic. Congratulation on your digs once again.Congratulations on having an area where you get the satisfaction of digging.
How far out from the shelter has digging been done, because the entire area is subject to have good potential.
The stone at the approach, may have fallen within historical times. If so there too is potential.
Down side of digging under enormous stones is the subsurface is compacted to a point of "like concrete".
The indigenous peoples lived outside the shelter most of the time, and used the shelters overhanging stone as needed depending on the weather.
Some of the stone shelters approaches, here in Texas, are very deep.
Occupied over periods of thousands of years.
Jess B.
1320 I know you are a pro on shelters but I have found outside of some of them especially if there are additional large boulders that they sometimes hold more than the shelter . Do you ever venture outside the overhang? It all depends I guess if it was just a seasonal nut hunting shelter or a lower elevation one used year round. I know old topic. Congratulation on your digs once again.
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