found drilled shark tooth today

[GatorBoy]

Alot of little bits and pieces today. but that's okay.. I was happy after the first 10 minutes. these little guys are like finding a needle in a haystack. I recently received some beautiful Tennessee points in the mail.CapSmith Out of the kindness of his heart.. New that I liked one of the nutting stones he posted a few months back so he contacted me for my address in order to send me one expecting nothing in return. it just so turned out.. the night before he was going to send my package he came across some points that were misplaced and never got cleaned off. so it turned out to be my lucky day. he had mentioned during 1 of our conversations how much he liked the drilled shark teeth. I only had 5 that took years to find. so as much as it pained me I felt the right thing to do was to send him one Today the Spirit came full circle. I'm still smiling.

 

[rock]

I saw one at the show that was a Megadon tooth resharpened to be a spearhead. Very cool

 

[GaRebel1861]

That drilled tooth is NICE! Very nice - good find for sure. All good deeds come full circle.

 

[GatorBoy]

I've seen those Rock.. If I was in an area that had fossils from that time period like the west coast of my state or the northern part I might stand a better chance at one of those. Its cool to think they were happy to find fossils too. I know I am







The ones in my area are mostly around 20,000 years old.

 

[GaRebel1861]

What is that in the last or bottom picture that you posted?

 

[GatorBoy]

Tip to a mastodon tusk. With grinding on the end.

 

[GaRebel1861]

I just could not figure out what that was. Thanks.

 

[BeachComber7]

Great finds Bill!

 

[GatorBoy]

Thank you

 

[cntrydncr1]

I've never seen them with drilled holes. very cool. I'm guessing the Florida beaches probably would be a tough place to find those!

 

[GatorBoy]

This wasn't found on the beach.It was close to a tributary that leads to the ocean. And thanks..I love them.

 

[Age_old]

Man, that shark tooth is AWESOME. I have GOT to find me one of those one day! Congrats, man!

 

[GatorBoy]

Thank you brother!

 

[NC field hunter]

Thank you brother!

Time to pull the old Chuck Taylor's out again!

 

[newnan man]

Hmmmm........?

 

[NC field hunter]

Hmmmm........?

It's a joke! Last Time he found a drilled shark tooth, I said some things never go out of fashion. I wander if natives had Chuck Taylors. Get it??

 

[GatorBoy]

LOL... I'm pretty sure Some of the ones I have found We're for personal adornment. There has been Examples found with use wear and evidence of hafting. It's speculated that some were used as a tool for designing pottery. if you look closely on this one there is what appears to be small grooves running horizontally from both sides of the hole on the front side of the tooth. there is no use wear so I'm guessing that's just from the way it was strung.

 

[newnan man]

Couldn't figure out how the shoes fit in.....Thanks. Those Sharks teeth are killer for sure. I've got bowls of them from Venice Beach but I'd give them all away to find 1 drilled tooth.

 

[GatorBoy]

Aahhaha..thanks. me too. Peace river also.

 

[theonlinefisherman]

I just put a shark tooth that had clearly been halted and knapped to be a spear point into the hands of a dealer-friend of mine. He comes across pinellas and Weedon and calusa stuff all the time and that is right up my alley, so we are doing a trade. It makes sense they would have used them. We find big ones that were used for scrapers often on active sites. Crystals, too, down here, for some reason. Magical maybe? The point I found was fossilized when it was worked, and it came from a place in northport. That is a killer town. Very unpopulated (relatively for Florida), and the home of the salt pond. A well known Paleo site. We find tons of pottery in the middle of old stuff. I have two Clovis I found there twenty years ago and I am still hunting the same fields. So shark is something that seems to be more Paleo than later. By the end of the archaic it seems their use went away. Not as knives and scrapers - the big ones - but pendants and spear points tend to be very very old. That is a great find, man.

We are gonna go fishing one of these weeks, and do a little hunting

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