How to find artifacts in Mississippi

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https://www.yahoo.com/sports/did-artifacts-thousands-years-old-161056030.html

 

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[Relicgrubber]

Cool story for sure! Thanks for sharing...

I have my doubts about the Black one. Looks to Perfect imo

 

[joshuaream]

Interesting. I agree that plummet looks odd, I've never seen that style with such a pointy end. But Poverty Point people made a lot of cool plummets, so maybe

I've long since forgotten who has the frame, but there was a frame of Cahokia points collected by a guy who either worked at a turkey processing plant or raised turkeys. They were on a Cahokian site and turkeys would scratch up and swallow gizzard stones, which left them polished.

 

[quito]

Interesting. I agree that plummet looks odd, I've never seen that style with such a pointy end. But Poverty Point people made a lot of cool plummets, so maybe

I've long since forgotten who has the frame, but there was a frame of Cahokia points collected by a guy who either worked at a turkey processing plant or raised turkeys. They were on a Cahokian site and turkeys would scratch up and swallow gizzard stones, which left them polished.

Would make for interesting Provenance for those cleaned up points.

 

[joshuaream]

This is the frame, but similar points on Pete Bostrom's site.Gizzard Stone Cahokia Points

 

[MAMucker]

Proverbial feeling in your gut.

 

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This is the frame, but similar points on Pete Bostrom's site.Gizzard Stone Cahokia Points

Thanks for the follow up post (link).