4th of July find

eppingera · Jul 5, 2013

My sisters and I were fossil hunting one of our favorite creeks and one of them found this beauty-her very first complete point!

rock · Jul 5, 2013

Thats nice! Im liking the flaking on that one.

GatorBoy · Jul 5, 2013

Nice one.. you may want to hunt that creek with points in mind.
Its easy to miss them when you have your eyes trained on fossils.

eppingera · Jul 5, 2013

GatorBoy said:
Nice one.. you may want to hunt that creek with points in mind.
Its easy to miss them when you have your eyes trained on fossils.

That's very true. It is a whole different type of searching. Once she found that one we switched to arrowhead mode! Only found a broken blade though, nothing else. There are huge rock bars so it is hard to spot the proverbial needle in a haystack in this creek, however the black point stood out so well from the other rocks that she spotted it easily. Black is unusual in our area.
Any ideas on type or age? Found in near Williamsburg, MO

GatorBoy · Jul 5, 2013

It's a very nice one.. The flaking style looks familiar to me.
I'm not real good with your area But I will look it up and at least give you some of what I think are possiblities that you can check into.
Jackie comes to mind without looking it up.. but that's just guessing. 6-8 thousand BP.
Can you take a photo of the other side also.. I'm trying to see clearly if that is a stem on that point.

eppingera · Jul 5, 2013

GatorBoy said:
It's a very nice one.. The flaking style looks familiar to me.
I'm not real good with your area But I will look it up and at least give you some of what I think are possiblities that you can check into.
Jackie comes to mind without looking it up.. but that's just guessing. 6-8 thousand BP.
Can you take a photo of the other side also.. I'm trying to see clearly if that is a stem on that point.

Thanks! Here is the only picture I got of the other side. Probably not very helpful since my finger is right in the way... I can ask my sister to send some pics to me.

eppingera · Jul 5, 2013

Here are a few more pics. Damage on the one side, might have a hard time with an ID?

GatorBoy · Jul 5, 2013

I'm having a tough time with that one.. the way the pressure flaking gets interrupted on the lower section makes it appear like a broken tip that had a few flakes removed after the fact and was utilized that way.. possibly as a blade.
Hopefully someone with more knowledge of your area will chime in.. either way I love the material and it's a nice addition to a days fossil hunting that's for sure.
If it is just a broken tip it's impossible to say exactly what it might have been.. but just for speculations sake .. the flaking style and shape looks reminiscent of Scottsbluff points.
Here is one from Missouri that appears to be the same material.