Another drilled soapstone piece

[Pancake]

I went hunting today and found a broken piece of a drilled soapstone bowl. It was found about 10 feet from the piece I found last month. I got home and boy was I surprised when the two pieces fit perfectly together! Not only are they from the same bowl but they are pieces that were right next to each other. It was a good day.

 

[Charl]

Nice. Don't glue em yet. More out there...

 

[Pancake]

Don't worry, I have no plans to glue them. I was very pleasantly surprised to find another piece and am hoping to find more of it.

 

[Twitch]

Wow, you don't see that everyday. Very nice find(s).

 

[Tnmountains]

That is so cool. It was a patch right? The holes?

 

[Pancake]

Yes, the holes were used to repair the bowls.

 

[GatorBoy]

Real cool.. I've done it with pottery but never soapstone.

 

[CajunPointHunter]

Awesome find!!

 

[rock]

Nice find for sure.

 

[wvwildman]

nice finds congrats HH

 

[bravowhiskey]

Lucky find. I have a boat load of pieces, none of which fit together.

So those pieces were stitched together? Seems like it would have been easier to make another vessel. Maybe it had a religious significance.

Get some more and post pls.

 

[Pancake]

These are the only two soapstone pieces I have found and they go together, which really is pretty cool.

Seeing that soapstone isn't native here, I would assume it would be a pretty big pain to make another. Even if it was found here, I can only imagine the time and skill involved with quarrying the stone, then shaping it into a vessel would be pretty immense and a repair would be much quicker and simpler. These pieces pre-date pottery, which I gather started being made about 8000 years ago.

 

[Charl]

These are the only two soapstone pieces I have found and they go together, which really is pretty cool.

Seeing that soapstone isn't native here, I would assume it would be a pretty big pain to make another. Even if it was found here, I can only imagine the time and skill involved with quarrying the stone, then shaping it into a vessel would be pretty immense and a repair would be much quicker and simpler. These pieces pre-date pottery, which I gather started being made about 8000 years ago.

Well, no, not quite that old. 8000 years would be Early Archaic. The Transitional Archaic period at one time was coined the "Stone Bowl Age", roughly 2700-3700 years ago. The point styles associated with this time and often found with bowls are Susquehanna points and Orient Fishtail points, here in the Northeast that is. Other point styles for the period further south on the Atlantic seaboard. Smaller bowls continued to be made well into Woodland times, after the development of pottery, and the quarries continued to be worked right into contact times for the production of pipes.

 

[Pancake]

Awesome. As always, thanks for the info Charl. I was only going by what a local told me and honestly, it seemed odd to that they would have stopped making stone bowls completely once pottery was introduced.

I have found all types of points at or near this site. Some old and some newer. I believe it was occupied for quite some time.

 

[rock]

Awesome. As always, thanks for the info Charl. I was only going by what a local told me and honestly, it seemed odd to that they would have stopped making stone bowls completely once pottery was introduced.

I have found all types of points at or near this site. Some old and some newer. I believe it was occupied for quite some time.

Is the dirt starting to thaw yet? I will be interested as to what else you find in your spot when it gets warmer.