Another great hunt.....with Paleo!

[TundraPlugger]

Went out today with one of my friends. He's pretty new to artifact hunting so he only ended up with a nice scraper.

I found the unfluted Folsom base about 10' away from the small Midland base.

The large flake tool is almost certainly Paleo.....probably Folsom culture.

 

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[Relicgrubber]

Nice stuff made from pretty material. Thanks.

 

[TundraPlugger]

Nice stuff made from pretty material. Thanks.

Thanks grubber! All are made from Knife River Flint......lots of patina on a few.

 

[quito]

Nice! Surprised you aren’t covered with snow like us.

 

[Tnmountains]

You gotta love paleo and that knife river material. Great pictures thank you for sharing!

 

[arrow86]

Even broke those are still killer finds , I’m very jealous of that KR flint wish it was around here

 

[11KBP]

Really nice finds.
Maybe it’s just the angle the image was taken of the base fragment but the cross-section looks fairly thick for a Midland.
Is there any chance that might be the stem of a point from the Cody complex?

 

[TundraPlugger]

Really nice finds.
Maybe it’s just the angle the image was taken of the base fragment but the cross-section looks fairly thick for a Midland.
Is there any chance that might be the stem of a point from the Cody complex?

Thanks man! It is a little thick through the midsection but it's flaked just like a Midland, with that microflaking. I've never seen any Cody come from this spot but a number of Folsom and Midlands though. I know what your saying though.....kind of looks like an Eden stem.

 

[TundraPlugger]

Even broke those are still killer finds , I’m very jealous of that KR flint wish it was around here

Thanks arrow! It was great to get out looking again.....last time I looked was mid to late January.

 

[TundraPlugger]

You gotta love paleo and that knife river material. Great pictures thank you for sharing!

Thanks Tn!

 

[TundraPlugger]

Nice! Surprised you aren’t covered with snow like us.

We have snow everywhere....but we also have horrendous wind at times which produced a few small areas to hunt today. I think I'm going to have to wait until most of it melts to do more hunting though.

 

[11KBP]

Thanks man! It is a little thick through the midsection but it's flaked just like a Midland, with that microflaking. I've never seen any Cody come from this spot but a number of Folsom and Midlands though. I know what your saying though.....kind of looks like an Eden stem.

We'll just have to wait until you find the rest of it, then we'll know.

 

[TundraPlugger]

We'll just have to wait until you find the rest of it, then we'll know.

I wouldn't mind that one bit!

 

[joshuaream]

Great material and great workmanship. Few things more elegant than old paleo from Plains.

 

[TundraPlugger]

Great material and great workmanship. Few things more elegant than old paleo from Plains.

I agree..... it's hard to beat!

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Beautiful finds. The difference in both sides of that Scraper is amazing in the patina change. I have a few Knife River pieces like that.

 

[GaRebel1861]

I really like that material out that way. Sure makes for some pretty artifacts!

 

[TundraPlugger]

Here are some pictures of the spurred scraper and side-notched point from yesterday.

 

[TundraPlugger]

Beautiful finds. The difference in both sides of that Scraper is amazing in the patina change. I have a few Knife River pieces like that.

Thanks Grim! It was nice to get out again.

 

[arrow86]

I like that side notch point ... guess that site was definitely multigenerational