Giant Preform!

[old digger]

How would you like to find a preform like this one, this was found at the ''Anzick'' Clovis site here in Montana.

 

[SCrocks]

Dang looks like that was going to be made to kill dinosaurs not mammoths.

 

[painterx7]

I love that piece one day ima find one lok

 

[monsterrack]

That is awesome Thanks for posting

 

[ncnurseryman]

Looks like a serving plater. I know...bad bad joke. Not even funny.

 

[quito]

The size of the flakes that came off that piece are amazing, and they would have made a lot of tools too.

 

[old digger]

Thanks for your responses.

The size of the flakes that came off that piece are amazing, and they would have made a lot of tools too.

Do you suppose this piece and others like it could have been used as cores? This piece was intered with the body of an infant, supposedly for the afterlife.

 

[11KBP]

Thanks for your responses. Do you suppose this piece and others like it could have been used as cores?

Definitely ...that is what it is, a bifacial core.

 

[old digger]

Definitely ...that is what it is, a bifacial core.

Thanks for the affirmation, I read that that may be what they were used as.

 

[deadeye 22250]

That is real nice.

 

[rock]

Thanks for sharing

 

[curious kat]

....WOW that is impressive...thanxs for sharing that with us old digger!

 

[Tnmountains]

Thanks for your responses. Do you suppose this piece and others like it could have been used as cores? This piece was intered with the body of an infant, supposedly for the afterlife.

A clovis burial with objects? One heck of a core right there. I would make a table with that one. Thanks Digger!

 

[GatorBoy]

Super nice biface.
Kinda sad to me... this child was likely given this piece to make his or her first point/blade with...In the afterlife.... I imagine the person who gave it was hoping they would do it together.
I wish they would put it and the child back to rest really.

 

[Tnmountains]

I have never heard of grave goods in/or a clovis culture burial. But then I have been known to miss much haha

 

[joshuaream]

Actually that big one is from Colorado, it's similar to the Anzick examples, but from a couple of states south of you.

 

[Tnmountains]

Actually that big one is from Colorado, it's similar to the Anzick examples, but from a couple of states south of you.

Thanks guys. I learn every time I stop by. A quick must read article.
Earliest American Genome Proves Siberian Origins of Native Peoples - D-brief | DiscoverMagazine.com

 

[old digger]

Actually that big one is from Colorado, it's similar to the Anzick examples, but from a couple of states south of you.

Hey, Joshua, Why would they include this preform/core in with the other artifacts that came out of the original Anzick site if it came from another site? (Just Asking). Where I retrieved the photo, and in another article it included this same core.

 

[old digger]

I believe the other article that included this core was in L. Lahren & R. Bonnichsen's book on the Anzick site.

 

[joshuaream]

See if this link works, it's the original picture and description that describes it as from Colorado.

The original picture has spread around, and I've seen it listed many times as being from Anzick. You can google pictures of the Anzick cache and see all of the artifacts. I've seen the cache a couple of times, and it isn't from
that group. There is one similar, but broken and missing a wedge.


http://www.centerfirstamericans.com/mammoth/issues/Volume-22/vol22_num2.pdf