Finds From East Central Alabama

[Tdog]

I've posted these before in a "landscape" shot of several frames hanging on the wall of my shop but I thought I'd post a close-up of one. I may post more individual frames if it goes over well with this one. I hope you all like it. These are my personal surface finds from 10-15 years ago from my tri-county area (Coosa, Elmore & Tallapoosa). There are two pieces of novaculite in there, a clay bead (?) and the rest quartz & quartzite. They are in a 9" X 12" frame. Thanks for looking.

 

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[willjo]

Nice finds Terry, They did a lot with the stone they had to work with, thanks for posting Terry nice finds

 

[Out Of Time]

Those are great.

Any idea of age / culture?

 

[Fred250]

Was playing with some quartz chunks in one of my rock gardens today, where my daughter got the idea to knap from. It’s almost impossible to break, I can’t imagine trying to control the break.

 

[Tdog]

Those are great.

Any idea of age / culture?

Thank you. Culture is lost to the ages but I believe most of these are middle to late archaic time-frame.

 

[Tdog]

Was playing with some quartz chunks in one of my rock gardens today, where my daughter got the idea to knap from. It’s almost impossible to break, I can’t imagine trying to control the break.

Your daughter can help you with this!

 

[Quartzite Keith]

Love it. Looks like the stuff we find up here in central Virginia. I know of a couple of creeks where I could go and find all that material here. I really like the colored pieces, but that is super tough stuff!

Fred: Looking for quartz to knap is like kissing frogs looking for Prince Charming. There's an awful lot of it you just don't want to pick a fight with, and even the "good" stuff can be very frustrating to work with!

 

[A2coins]

Really cool good to see history appreciated very nice