finally found one

[jamey]

found a good point today,and a great scraper too boot.i think this point has been reworked,one side looks like a clovis,the other side looks like a cumberland,ill try too get some better pictures of it but all i have is my broken camera. thanks for looking and please tell me what you think

 

[jamey]

other side

 

[Tnmountains]

Welcome back Jamey Congratulations thats what I call starting back with a bang !
Stones River middle Tn? Whats the story on the find?
TnMountains

 

[jamey]

oh sorry,yea one of my spots i hunted last time.it was just laying there right on top as if someone had dropped it.boot prints everywere.the cycle has just begun round here,it will be next year before i really start looking again.the scaper is really neat,not just a flake worked on both sides and screaming paleo too me.what do you think the point is.thanks again tn mountains. jamey

 

[Tnmountains]

As you know I am no expert just a river dog like you. I would think someone would have seen it. The river dogs do not miss to much now days. From what I have learned basil thinning is key which from the one picture I do not see.. but do see is they were possibly setting up a step platfrom to drive off the flute but maybe saw something or experience said nope not gonna drive off that flute and that was it. But still should have ground that base.
From the Gault site, page 77 resembles the stages of reduction on a point like yours. Its a pdf file. Check it out you to UNI for the blades.

http://txspace.tamu.edu/bitstream/handle/1969.1/4658/etd-tamu-2005C-ANTH-Dickens.pdf?sequence=1

If this is what i think
banner bar maybe.
Lets see what some experts say ?
Nice one Jamey. I have been meaning to write you I need you to do some river hunts with me. Hope you can swim
TnMountains

 

[joshuaream]

That fluted point is neat, maybe a Wheeler?

 

[uniface]

 

[uniface]

It looks like it MAY HAVE BEEN a little Cumberland that was snapped off and the blade re-based. Especially as you'd expect the waist to have flared back out to the ears, and it doesn't.

 

[jamey]

thanks tn and uni face.i think uni face is right,someone was trying to rework the base and maybe refluted the one side.the flute dosent seem as worn on the other side,too me anyway.when i frist looked at it i thought someone was trying to make a clovis point out of a cumberland point.that couldnt be right ,right? jamey

 

[jamey]

tn mountains,i would really like to go hunting with you,but as i found out in the past i can not plan anything.being a single dad is really a job all by itself.my ex is hard to rely on,but i am going to hunt with you just might be a two hour notice jamey

 

[Tnmountains]

Bring the kids. in summer. We will go by boat.

 

[Newt]

It's a banner! Paleo is hard to come by.
Very nice and congrats!
Newt

 

[jamey]

thanks newt,i dont think they are that hard i have found two now in about a year,not to brag,im a dummy finding things i know not much about yet.if i can find them anyone can.ya know they were both just laying there really clean as if they had been dropped,im am thinking that the indians didnt make them,they are gifts from the forest. jamey

 

[Tnmountains]

That fluted point is neat, maybe a Wheeler?

I agree with him on Wheeler excurvate. Awsome find sir. You always find the good stuff.

 

[Th3rty7]

thanks newt,i dont think they are that hard i have found two now in about a year,not to brag,im a dummy finding things i know not much about yet.if i can find them anyone can.ya know they were both just laying there really clean as if they had been dropped,im am thinking that the indians didnt make them,they are gifts from the forest. jamey

wow

 

[RichPA]

Congrats on that nice gift from the forest

 

[naturegirl]

Double wow! WTG jamey

naturegirl

 

[Newt]

thanks newt,i dont think they are that hard i have found two now in about a year,not to brag,im a dummy finding things i know not much about yet.if i can find them anyone can.ya know they were both just laying there really clean as if they had been dropped,im am thinking that the indians didnt make them,they are gifts from the forest. jamey

Depending on where you hunt, they can be very scarce. I congratulate you on those points. Middle Ga. was not very kind to paleo people.
Newt

 

[creek astronaut]

triple wow!!!its a paleo something,congrats

 

[abarnard]

Nice, reworked or not it is a hard find to come by for most folks. Congrats..