A little bit of everything EXCEPT for points

[RTfacthunterinElgin]

I’m new to Treasurenet and this is my first post so please bare with me. From information I’ve read and images I’ve looked at and something Toddspoint mentioned in another post, I gather my seasonal creek was some sort of quarry at one time. I picked up hand tools, nutting/anvil stones, and flakes. There are lots of cores, many are too large for me to be interested in hauling back into my yard (plus my old man would have a cow LOL). Thought I would share a few picks of my finds and you guys can tell me what you think.

 

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[TK of PA]

Looks like jasper in the first pic all 3 pieces across the top and the brown piece below the second and third piece. Also, jasper pieces in the 3 pic down. What state did you find these?

 

[Jon Stewart]

The first picture is Texas chert. I brought home buckets of it over the winter. Lots of worked pieces. has to be some points out there somewhere. Don't think the last picture is anything but rocks tho.

 

[RTfacthunterinElgin]

Hi TK! Thanks for the reply.. I pick up most pieces from the seasonal creek on my property in Elgin, TX.

 

[RTfacthunterinElgin]

Yes! Texas chert it is! The creek is full of it! LOL Jon, I actually thought the last picture might be of an anvil/nutting stone and a fishing weight.

 

[quito]

3rd pic middle row the brown one right of center sure looks like it could be a nice thumb scraper.
Would be nice to see the other side.

 

[RTfacthunterinElgin]

@quito I will take a picture of the other side tomorrow and post it.

 

[joshuaream]

Yep, Bastrop County is a great place to find relics. So much chert/flint laying around that the natives could be uncommonly wasteful when it came to replacing tools.

I've walked a small ranch not too far from your area, and there was an insane number of cores and bifaces laying around. Chert is so bountiful that natives could be uncommonly wasteful in tool production. If a nice large bifacially worked tool, like the biggest one in your first picture, there is probably some internal flaw that caused the knapper to discard it. (Usually they can tell by the way the biface sounds when hit. There is almost a tone that tells you that it's cracked or crumbly inside.

There will be points, but quite often they are nearer the creek in really low middens/mounds. Thousands and thousands of points are still legally dug out of those middens every year. You can google some digs in Texas and see what they look like. If you have more than a couple of acres and you are on a creek that has water, you'll have a midden or 10 on your land.

Joshua

 

[ToddsPoint]

I see bifaces, worked piece, debitage. It's hard to find points in a quarry area. The Indians roughed out bifaces in the quarry area then took them elsewhere to finish. You need to find the elsewhere! Gary

 

[RTfacthunterinElgin]

Here’s a couple of pictures for you Quito:
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[RTfacthunterinElgin]

Joshuaream YES!! I didn’t know the official “term” for it. It was just “protruding from the dirt” for me LOL
But that’s where I got these pieces from, 2 different middens. I’m hoping y’all will confirm if the first one is a tool or some type of point/weapon. The 2nd pic was also removed from a midden. I think it’s an atypical artifact but what do I know

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[ToddsPoint]

The top one is knapping debitage. Pieces like that are discards but could have been used as an expedient tool at any time. It's still debitage though. Gary