Florida Thonotosassa's & Sumpters

[newnan man]

Pasco County, all are heat treated coral or agate.

 

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[pepperj]

The second one on the top left is a beauty.

 

[CreekSide]

The second one on the top left is a beauty.

That one caught my eye too.

 

[newnan man]

That one caught my eye too.

Greasy agate material. Always looks wet. Killer flaking I think.

 

[CreekSide]

Greasy agate material. Always looks wet. Killer flaking I think.

I can blow it up some and change the color a bit to show the flaking better like this

 

[Sandog]

Beauties. Are you finding these around Thonotosassa?

 

[antmike915]

Gotta love the material. I agree the 2nd left one is eye catching.

 

[newnan man]

Beauties. Are you finding these around Thonotosassa?

These all are from Pasco County near the Wesley Chapel area. That's about 20 miles north of Lake Thonotosassa. Early to mid 80's finds.

 

[PetesPockets55]

Gorgeous!
Congrats.

 

[dognose]

amazing color, very nice indeed.

 

[Relicgrubber]

Nice! The first pic, second from top left, Very Nice artifact Nman!

 

[MAMucker]

Wow! the lithic materials on all of them are all stunning.

Now, I looked up the Thonotosassa. I like that NA name. And it sure is shaped like many of those examples of the sqaure-stemmed variety. But I think yours is better made. It also displays a different kind flaking than the type is known to have (random). I believe it's called 'oblique transverse flaking'.

Thonotosassa
AKA: Palm River (Gray 1975)
Cluster: Ledbetter Stemmed Cluster
Edited by William Lunsford

Thonotosassa Stemmed

www.projectilepoints.net

 

[newnan man]

Wow! the lithic materials on all of them are all stunning.

Now, I looked up the Thonotosassa. I like that NA name. And it sure is shaped like many of those examples of the sqaure-stemmed variety. But I think yours is better made. It also displays a different kind flaking than the type is known to have (random). I believe it's called 'oblique transverse flaking'.

Thonotosassa
AKA: Palm River (Gray 1975)
Cluster: Ledbetter Stemmed Cluster
Edited by William Lunsford

Thonotosassa Stemmed

www.projectilepoints.net

I agree, a lot of Thonto's are pretty thick and flaked off with large strikes. I have maybe 15 or more broken ones and some would have been really nice. I have seen a few nicer than mine and one made from Coral that you could see the polyps in.

 

[MAMucker]

I agree, a lot of Thonto's are pretty thick and flaked off with large strikes. I have maybe 15 or more broken ones and some would have been really nice. I have seen a few nicer than mine and one made from Coral that you could see the polyps in.

It occurred to me that we have triangles in the New England Region that have the exact same characteristics (or diagnostics) in every way. But some have a little grinding on the basal area that sets them apart from the others by 3000 years.
I wondered if the difference in flaking may set the Thonto's (as you call them) apart as well.
Curious.