fluted bone point from bog?

[GatorBoy]

I know what I think I'm seeing what do you think?

 

[silversurfer1111]

thats so cool thanks for posting

 

[GatorBoy]

No prob. I'm still trying every angle to discount it.

 

[centfladigger]

just a piece of broken bone, bone is hollow and the other side is just a break in it. Bone points were either made from the cannon leg bone quartered or socketed antler pieces. If you are finding bone materials in a wet site then your are likely to find some good stuff. I have found alot of bone artifacts inmy wet sites down here

 

[GatorBoy]

Yeah I posted that mostly as a conversation piece. I find a lot!!! Of bone in this wet site. Enough so to know that one was altered. A lot of oval shaped pieces with the edges smoothed. They look like guitar picks. I belive they were used for smoothing pottery.

 

[GatorBoy]

 

[GatorBoy]

Oh.. and the pottery is well preserved too.

 

[GatorBoy]

Do you really think that every bone point ever made was only from two sources of material? Not that I think the one posted is one just in general that seems impossible.

 

[centfladigger]

deer is the most common, I am sure they used other material but I am going off of my 30 years of digging and diving and what I have found and my partners and what we have seen out there. I would imagine bird bone even green, would be too brittle for utlitarian use. The archys did find a dugong rib bone with a canine toothe glued and embedded in the end in a burial at the Windover site( 8000 yr old burials) They made do with whatever for whatever use they had. Deer is just the commonbone to use, deer anlter atl atl hook, deer antler atl atl weight, deer antler handles, bone pins/gigs, deer toe bone fish hooks , deer antler socketed point( which one was found in the butt bone of a dead indian at the Windover site)

 

[GatorBoy]

I know about the Manatee rib socketed bone with pine pitched tooth at windover as well. Deer is most common. 30 yrs. Is good.

 

[GatorBoy]

I only posted photos of one site within the last few weeks. I wasn't trying to puff up or anything. I have experience as well.. I belive there was a baby girl about two years old carfuly wrapped in woven cloth and cradling a turtle shell and carved wooden toy burried there as well. Says a lot about the people.

 

[centfladigger]

oh puff away my friend, puff away if you have experience then you know how rare( especially for those of us down here in Fl)a preserved bone site is. Show what youy site has, I want to see what kind of tools your finding, is it all the same aross the board? Was a woodland or late archaic site pretty much the same? I do have to ask, do you have one of these?
its a doo doo from thegreasy pits on a midden site lol..yessir gots me a genuine indian turd, he pinched one out in the pit

 

[GatorBoy]

Ha ha ha.... I threw mine back. LOL. I did just the other day. This site has produced mostly Marion Newman and Putnam points. Middle so there is a time range. Although there is evedence of later occupation with pinellas points. What do you want to see? I'm using my cell for all this so it's a pain. Tons of deer bone and teeth. Even black bear lots of bird and turtle. Even wood.

 

[GatorBoy]

Here is a nearby shoreline.



A mix of fiber and sand tempered..oh and your poo is nicer than mine it had more white crust on the outside. Must have been dry for a bit. No corn in it..ha ha.. just elderberrys