Fire side tools

[pghDFXer]

All were found together, below the plow line on a saddle,that's probably never been plowed anyway, and unfortunately smeared in a 10ft row by a dozer, after he skimmed the 4 charcoal pits in a row was in a virgin layer 10-14in down, of fluffy silty stone and rock free dirt,!, any and all pieces of anything, any rock! Anything!,was a ARTIFACT. So theses chert hand tools were brought to this site and were left laying on THEIR ground . So all the micro flaking from being used, as well as the Paleo Sheen being in all the right places, makes these rocks not just rocks! . ALL were handed by prehistoric man, all the knapping and use marks prove that, so these are not tumbled in a creek for 1000 years to make the chips on these rocks, so hopefully the pics are able to show being worked by man,

 

[newnan man]

What is "paleo sheen"?

 

[arrow86]

Not sure how you call something paleo just by looking at it So what’s the difference between Paleo sheen and early archaic sheen ?? Or maybe atleast explain what any sheen is ?? Seems like they are rocks not artifacts so how could you establish a timeline

 

[Relicgrubber]

Paleo sheen is shiny-shiny and Archaic is just plain ole shiny... lol

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Unless you found Paleo type Points in association with these Tools it would just be a guess as to what age they are.

 

[joshuaream]

A couple of them do look like tools or have wear from tool use. A couple look to have really fresh marks. The material looks like a quarry I saw West Virginia that was used by paleo folk, but I'm not sure I understand your frequent reference to paleo sheen.

I've seen collectors out west (Great Basin and some desert areas in the Southwest) talk about desert sheen (desert varnish, desert polish, sand blast, etc.) that old relics get after siting exposed for 10K years, obsidian can get frosty looking while some higher grades of materials can get something that almost looks like river polish. You usually don't see that in buried context in the eastern part of the US. None of the your tools you have posted look like they would have been hand held enough to get actual handle/hafting polish. You see that on pestles, some celts, and occasionally on other items like pipes, but not really on expedient tools.

You might be onto something with the site, but I think you are reading too much into some of the pieces.

 

[SportsmanAll]

Seems like a supply cache to me. But what do I know!