Florida Tool Time

[tomclark]

Unifacial scraper from a Paleo site



Same site, paleo, unusual tool!




We call these Bowtie Adzes or Bolen Adzes, they are usually Bolen time period finds. Uniface also.






Chipped Adze, early Archaic site.


A bone pin abrader made of sandstone. N. FL




Think they were making canoes at this site?

boom. It would take me all day to post pics of all the filthy unifacial scrapers, banana scrapers, hendrix scrapers, etc in the bins and boxes holy cow.

 

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[rock]

Now that is some nice tools. I find them every once in a while but most are broken either by tumble or use.

 

[yakker]

Great show- and interesting. Thanks for that! Yak

 

[theviking]

nice pile of tools. Love the little micro blade looking things, all very cool. Thanks for the view.

 

[monsterrack]

very fine group of tools

 

[curious kat]

... wow!

 

[joshuaream]

It would take me all day to post pics of all the filthy unifacial scrapers, banana scrapers, hendrix scrapers, etc in the bins and boxes holy cow.

Sounds like a deal. I'll check back tomorrow.

 

[rock]

Tom I wish you would post a example of each type you have and then label them as to the type. I know there are many different types of them. It would be a good learning post for sure. I know I would enjoy seeing it.

 

[NC field hunter]

Nice stuff Tom! You are a lucky one (the way I understand it) to know of a paleo site in Fl. Do you have to use scuba gear when hunting the paleo. Site? If you can't answer that, I understand.

 

[jamey]

now those are very nice,thanks for sharing them.awesome.

 

[reddirt]

Nice group of artifacts you got there. Any chance of you posting new pics of your famous shell tools?

 

[tomclark]

This paleo site is dredged up spoil, where they dredged into the clay layer. Most of our paleo stuff is on top of, or just into that clay layer, with fossils. Paleo layer in my area is 4-6 feet down in sand to that clay layer. During Paleo times the beach was about 150 miles out in the Gulf!