Dalton Santa Fe

[smallfoot]

Another find from the Withlacoochee.

 

[Tdog]

I'm surprised there's no further discussion on this topic. I'll have to see if I can come up with pics of these types we've found in this area. I've got one in mind that is a personal find.

 

[smallfoot]

I'd like to be able to understand some things about these but it seems the more I read, the more confused I get with this general timeline. Back in the days when most of my stuff was located, Bullen info had these as earlier than what you see now. I understand ya'll are leaning on the serrations as an indicator here but if they are contemporaneous. aren't there other features that could make this go either way. With some of the links that were posted on this thread, they're both linked to Dalton culture, but there were mentions here that Dalton is not associated? Guess I need to find more up to date material to read...
I'm gonna have to post them as "rocks" lol!

 

[uniface]

Don't know if this is relevant to your point or not, but "the book" on Daltons at least used to be that they persisted down to +/- 4,000 BC.

 

[Tdog]

Here's a broken piece that a friend and I found on the same hunt on the shores of Lake Martin in Tallapoosa county Alabama near Wind Creek. I found the base and he found the tip. There is so much material missing at the break that I chose not to try and glue it back together. It is somewhat water-worn so it's hard to say whether grinding is present but I believe it is a Santa Fe. This piece could have been broken by a plow before the Tallapoosa River was dammed up back in the 1920's to create the Lake Martin reservoir.