Banged up Clovis

lostlake88 · Mar 25, 2010

Found this the other day in Kentucky. The field we were hunting is a good one, but there was too little rain on it. The Unfluted clovis is in terrible shape, but it is interesting to see the fluting nipple on it. Base and sides heavily ground. Made of Fort Payne. Oddly enough, this is the second one this year in maybe 3 hunts.

uniface · Mar 25, 2010

NICE one !!!

RPG · Mar 25, 2010

Maybe it broke while knapping and was discarded. It doesn't show the fine detail on the cutting edge I've seen on some of the well made clovis points. Could be the reason the nipple is still there, never finished. Cool find either way. :thumbsup:

Th3rty7 · Mar 25, 2010

Outstanding find, congrats! I wish they'd deep plow the fields around here.

uniface · Mar 25, 2010

Preform with an end shock break as nearly as I can tell.

Pieces like that are 100 times more valuable and interesting because they show HOW they were "getting there" in the finishing stage, and from where.

I highly recommend Bob Patten's "Peoples of the Flute" for getting a solid grasp of Clovis lithic techniques and procedures (although he unfortunately spends a lot of time talking about Folsom stuff in it :laughing7:

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Edit : Obviously didn't watch the video first. Duh . . .

Still a super, over-the-top choice relic !

pickaway · Mar 25, 2010

Way to go... :headbang:

Treefrog · Mar 25, 2010

hey ive got something that looks like that....

Tnmountains · Mar 25, 2010

Heart thumper for sure! You found a nice one last year right? Looks like you are on track to another one !! Nice video also. Something about that older stuff :hello:

HH
TnMountains

chong2 · Mar 26, 2010

haha awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!! congrats

lostlake88 · Mar 28, 2010

TnMountains said:
Heart thumper for sure! You found a nice one last year right? Looks like you are on track to another one !! Nice video also. Something about that older stuff
HH
TnMountains

Yepper that was me. I have a better chance of being eaten by a Polar bear in Ohio than I do finding another one like I did last year. All one can do is try I guess. Thanks and take care.

SoIll · Mar 28, 2010

That's a killer find in any condition. I'd have to say that one was probably too thin to flute.

Will you please show us that other one you've found recently?

lostlake88 · Mar 30, 2010

SoIll said:
That's a killer find in any condition. I'd have to say that one was probably too thin to flute.

Will you please show us that other one you've found recently?

Hi,

I just did some searching. It's on page 3 of the banner finds. Man those banner finds go back a long way! See ya.