Flea Bay Comes Through !

[uniface]

Not very often any more, but every once in a while something really exciting turns up and flies under the radar.

Like these from Benton Co., Tennessee.

Scored them yesterday.Two definite paleos (1 & 3), two "maybes (2 & 5)," and an ambiguous one ('til I see the other side).

Searching for these is a not often successful quest, but it keeps me out of bar rooms and billiard parlors

 

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[Cappy Z.]

You guys amaze me. To be able to ID two as paleo..wow. And I am certain with proper verification 'paleo' stuff sells at a premium..

Nice pics.

 

[Tnmountains]

Great score. There is a guy on there that is selling stuff from the areas I hunt. I have also snagged some from him.When I found t-net I only collected stuff that I found. You guys have ruined me so now I am only collecting from my area and documenting eveything.
Great finds Bill. Like to see that Beaver lake thirty7.
Later flea bayers
TnMtns

 

[uniface]

To be able to ID two as paleo..wow

In the Eastern US, Lamellar Core/Blade technology disappears around the onset of the Younger Dryas event that (more or less) kicked off the Early Archaic era. It came back during the Mound Builder era, but differently. Really, it's a pretty easy call.

 

[uniface]

A shift toward more locally available resources also is apparent in Middle
Paleoindian lithic toolkits. Use of a wider range of raw material resources, including
some poorer quality materials, occurred during this phase (Haag 2004; Tankersley 1996).
Changes in lithic technology also accompanied the increased use of locally available
chert resources. Tankersley (1996:31) states that the blade technology of the Early
Paleoindian phase disappeared and was replaced by bipolar reduction. It also has been
suggested that a change in fluting technology occurred, resulting in a shift from direct
percussion during the Early Paleoindian times (Morrow 1996; Ray 2003).

David Polack, Kentucky Archaeological Survey/ University of Kentucky
The Archaeology of Kentucky : An Update (2008)

 

[huntnman]

To be able to ID two as paleo..wow

In the Eastern US, Lamellar Core/Blade technology disappears around the onset of the Younger Dryas event that (more or less) kicked off the Early Archaic era. It came back during the Mound Builder era, but differently. Really, it's a pretty easy call.

Could you please explain the differences between paleo Lamellar core/blades and the later ones? reason i ask is ive fount some similar pieces on one of my archaic sites but seems archaic didnt use them from what your saying so maybe theyre paleo.

 

[uniface]

The big problem is that people use the term "blade" to mean two different things.

A blade (as I'm using it above) is a uniface (smooth surface) on one side removal from a core that is often around twice as long as it is wide. These are the blades of the paleo era and earlier times (here, in Europe, and elsewhere). These can have been used as they came off the core (the thin edges are very sharp) as knives, or worked into endscrapers, sidescrapers, and so on. In the east, the Hopewell culture (or interaction sphere or whatever) made tons of these, but they were smaller in size -- most of them microblades (two inches or less in length) and it's unusual to find their edges re-sharpened. (Western Hopewell blades, I'm told, run pretty large). In both cases, as in the picture at the head of the thread, you'll be able to see ridges left from the removal of previous blades, kind of like cutting thin, lengthwise strips off a carrot.

People also use "blade" loosely to mean the part of a point ahead of the hafting area and/or an unhafted biface.

http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/gault/clovis.html