Dry Streak finally over

americanartifacts33 · Sep 17, 2018

Walked a new creek yesterday found a nice little preform.. Anyone have any idea if the second piece is ancient pottery or not.
Thanks

rock · Sep 17, 2018

Nice scraper and crockery would be my guess but Im not from your area

Rookster · Sep 17, 2018

Not a very good time table guy but those a nice finds. :icon_thumright:

GaRebel1861 · Sep 17, 2018

rock said:
Nice scraper and crockery would be my guess but Im not from your area

I agree.

Tnmountains · Sep 20, 2018

Love the preform as it shows extensive work. Always makes me wonder when I find one when looking at it why it did not continue on to a finished product. Was it a step in it they knew they could not remove or maybe a fracture or was the tool used as is and discarded. If material was plentiful I think they used and tossed if scarce they would use every attempt to work it further.
Great study piece and find.

americanartifacts33 · Sep 21, 2018

Tnmountains said:
Love the preform as it shows extensive work. Always makes me wonder when I find one when looking at it why it did not continue on to a finished product. Was it a step in it they knew they could not remove or maybe a fracture or was the tool used as is and discarded. If material was plentiful I think they used and tossed if scarce they would use every attempt to work it further.
Great study piece and find.

Thank you and very good analysis.. I think you're right.. I think they would go out/travel a bit to find raw material, I think they would then quickly work what they find down into many preforms. This way they wouldn't have to carry back to camp large/heavy raw material but instead lighter refined preforms; which would make the walk back more manageable. I think they would use it for miscellaneous needs but I believe the main objective would be to work it into a finish point.