Alibates

[Chrstyd]

Found the larger part maybe 6 months ago and found part of the tip today. Was found on my property in my pasture. The washita base was also found in my pasture. But on the first Pic does anyone know what kind of base would have been on it?

 

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[opalboy]

I love how that stuff got around, I have found some in Kremmling Colorado!

 

[ToddsPoint]

No way to tell what the base looked like. I think they call that type of Alibates “beefsteak”. A friend sent me a box of reject Alibates Indian made flakes and chunks for knapping. He picked them up on private property in Potter County near the monument. Beautiful and highly varied. Here’s a few I made. While these points I made are all modern, every one was made from a reject Indian artifact.😎

 

[Chrstyd]

I love how that stuff got around, I have found some in Kremmling Colorado!

Wow! I'm in the Texas Panhandle 18 miles from the Alibates monument. And 1.5 miles from an Antelope Creek ruin. I've found so many signs in my pasture

 

[Chrstyd]

No way to tell what the base looked like. I think they call that type of Alibates “beefsteak”. A friend sent me a box of reject Alibates Indian made flakes and chunks for knapping. He picked them up on private property in Potter County near the monument. Beautiful and highly varied. Here’s a few I made. While these points I made are all modern, every one was made from a reject Indian artifact.😎View attachment 2202740

Those are beautiful!! I'm not far from the monument. And only 1.5 miles from an antelope creek ruin.

 

[RGINN]

Yeah we had a lot of that in SWOK. First point I ever found when I was about 5 or 6 in Caddo County OK was of Alibates material. I drove through that monument one time when I was in Texas too.

 

[mountainplayer]

ToddsPoint, your knapping is outstanding! I'd be proud to be the maker of any one of those works of art.

 

[ToddsPoint]

ToddsPoint, your knapping is outstanding! I'd be proud to be the maker of any one of those works of art.

Thank you sir! I started knapping in 1985. Forty years ago this summer. I’ve learned so much about knapping as it applies to what the Indians did and understanding the debitage they left behind. I knapped nothing but fluted points for ten yrs. Experimental archaeology is very important. Armchair arkies only know what they read. Hands on is the way to really learn.

 

[mountainplayer]

Thank you sir! I started knapping in 1985. Forty years ago this summer. I’ve learned so much about knapping as it applies to what the Indians did and understanding the debitage they left behind. I knapped nothing but fluted points for ten yrs. Experimental archaeology is very important. Armchair arkies only know what they read. Hands on is the way to really learn.

I started knapping about 10 years ago. I wanted to learn how to make stone tools so that when I found a possible tool, I'd be better able to tell if it had really been worked. I've done a few points with regular glass (bottoms, mainly, from old bottles I find) but mainly work with obsidian. I've been way past due for bifocals the last three or four years (I'm pretty stubborn) so I've been taking a break.

 

[ToddsPoint]

You’re going in exactly the right direction. Get yourself some new glasses for the correct distance for knapping. Do your knapping experimenting now before you get old and crippled up like me. Strong hands are your most important physical trait. Once your hands are strong from a lot of knapping, that’s when you’ll do your best work. Once you let off and get out of the groove your hand strength declines. Age makes it decline more. Good luck to you with hands on learning!👍🏻🍀