Adena/ variant

[Up-North]

Spent a few hours at the creek today.
Cold and windy up here. Found this Adena/variant, just above the water line.

 

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[newnan man]

That in my opinion is one of the best points posted here in awhile. Super find, you are killing it!

 

[antmike915]

Definitely a day maker, awesome looking hunting ground.

 

[Relicgrubber]

Nice find UN! Thanks for sharing

 

[MAMucker]

Is that algae and creek staining all over the point? Reason I ask is it’s quite rare to see an Adena point in the Northeast surface collecting), and of those found very few are made of local lithic materials. My understanding is that there is no evidence of occupation by the Adena People in the Northeast.
So you can understand my interest in seeing the material from the source-lands.

 

[Up-North]

Is that algae and creek staining all over the point? Reason I ask is it’s quite rare to see an Adena point in the Northeast surface collecting), and of those found very few are made of local lithic materials. My understanding is that there is no evidence of occupation by the Adena People in the Northeast.
So you can understand my interest in seeing the material from the source-lands.

Yes, a heavy creek stain.this is a s.e. Minnesota creek find, adenas and variants are common. Up here.

 

[uniface]

Is that algae and creek staining all over the point? Reason I ask is it’s quite rare to see an Adena point in the Northeast surface collecting), and of those found very few are made of local lithic materials. My understanding is that there is no evidence of occupation by the Adena People in the Northeast.
So you can understand my interest in seeing the material from the source-lands.

Don Dragoo ("Mounds for the Dead" author, I believe) of Carnegie Institute theorized back in the 1950s or thereabouts that the Adena center had succumbed to attack. One group of refugees had gone south along the Ohio & Mississippi Rivers, then up the Tennessee and formed the Copena culture, while another group had migrated east to Delaware, where (if memory serves) they created a mound complex at Pig Point. A daughter colony from that migrated to Massachusetts.

Lots of discoveries have been made since, & I've not seen any more recent reconstruction of that thread in the saga. FWIW

 

[uniface]

The discovery of a mortuary complex related to the “Delmarva Adena” at the Pig Point site (18AN50) in Anne Arundel County, Maryland has shed significant light on one of the Middle Atlantic region’s greatest archeological mysteries—the extensive presence of elaborate Ohio Valley artifactual materials at a small number of mortuary sites in Delaware and Maryland. The existence of these exotic sites has been described as “an enigma of the highest order” (Dent 1995:232) and has been the subject of extensive speculation in the archeological literature for over seventy years.

. . . Although the existence of such Adena-related sites in the Middle Atlantic region has been recognized for at least eighty years, surprisingly little good contextual data on this important complex exists. This is especially true in regards to mortuary contexts. The two largest known sites, Sandy Hill (18DO30) near Cambridge, Maryland, and Frederica (7KF2) in Delaware, were discovered during sand and gravel operations and were essentially excavated by looters . . . The Pig Point site, therefore, represents the first major Delmarva Adena site discovered since 1960, and the first ever investigated by professional archeologists.

Good article otherwise : http://www.losttownsproject.org/wp-...marva-Adena-Mortuary-Complex-at-Pig-Point.pdf

 

[uniface]

An Adena Connected Burial Site. Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society, Vol. 27 Nr. 1 (1965)

https://maxwell.bridgew.edu/exhibits/BMAS/pdf/MAS-v27n01.pdf

 

[uniface]

Another Adena from the People's Republic of Taxachusetts:

North American Indian Artifacts - Page 132

 

[H.P.]

I absolutely love the scenery, that’s a really nice find..lots of character.

 

[dognose]

It looks like a Robbins to me.
Here is the projectilepoints.net on the Robbins

A very nice example, nice flaking and symmetry; broad percussion flaking with edge retouching, very little to none fine pressure flaking.

 

[Up-North]

It looks like a Robbins to me.
Here is the projectilepoints.net on the Robbins

A very nice example, nice flaking and symmetry; broad percussion flaking with edge retouching, very little to none fine pressure flaking.

thank you sir... Robbins seems to be a good fit for this point

 

[MAMucker]

Don Dragoo ("Mounds for the Dead" author, I believe) of Carnegie Institute theorized back in the 1950s or thereabouts that the Adena center had succumbed to attack. One group of refugees had gone south along the Ohio & Mississippi Rivers, then up the Tennessee and formed the Copena culture, while another group had migrated east to Delaware, where (if memory serves) they created a mound complex at Pig Point. A daughter colony from that migrated to Massachusetts.

Lots of discoveries have been made since, & I've not seen any more recent reconstruction of that thread in the saga. FWIW

Thank you for adding the additional back up info. Now I’ve got another trail to follow.

I had referenced the following -regarding the only Adena Ilustrated (referred to as a Double Pointed Side-notched Beavertail) in A Handbook of Indian Artifacts from Southern New England (William S. Fowler, 1963b, 1966b)
Revised (Curtiss Hoffman, 1991)
[Very rarely found except in association with Adena-RELATED (emphasis mine) burials, these points may also be imports.]
I was not sure if this statement was a general statement regarding Adena Points, or if it was limited to the one specific variation.

Added to that
A New England Typology (Jeff Boudreau) and read the following: [No pure Adena components have been identified in the Northeast. Adena traits are found occasionally in mixed occupations and as burial furniture]

 

[MAMucker]

It looks like a Robbins to me.
Here is the projectilepoints.net on the Robbins

A very nice example, nice flaking and symmetry; broad percussion flaking with edge retouching, very little to none fine pressure flaking.

I have to agree with dog nose: Adena Robbins.

 

[billb]

Wow good work out there congratulations..I’m confident there’s more to come good luck

 

[uniface]

Thank you for adding the additional back up info. Now I’ve got another trail to follow.

I had referenced the following -regarding the only Adena Ilustrated (referred to as a Double Pointed Side-notched Beavertail) in A Handbook of Indian Artifacts from Southern New England (William S. Fowler, 1963b, 1966b)
Revised (Curtiss Hoffman, 1991)
[Very rarely found except in association with Adena-RELATED (emphasis mine) burials, these points may also be imports.]
I was not sure if this statement was a general statement regarding Adena Points, or if it was limited to the one specific variation.

Added to that
A New England Typology (Jeff Boudreau) and read the following: [No pure Adena components have been identified in the Northeast. Adena traits are found occasionally in mixed occupations and as burial furniture]

The most easily identified Adena artifact form you'll likely find is microblades. FWIW. They show up far beyond theformal Adena territory during that time frame.