Mandan Fire & Ice

[T Witko]

Late this afternoon. The point so clear it's like looking into an ice cube. The KRF blade is the largest I've found. (So far)

 

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[rivernomad44]

those are awesome id love to fine something like that

 

[old digger]

WOW! Those are just AWESOME!

 

[NC field hunter]

You really bring it to the table! That is drop dead beautiful. I love the "tiger stripe" pattern in the blade. The points are great as well. Keep it up!

 

[larson1951]

those are great
the blade is petrified wood however
you are still tearing it you musta found them today??
nice man

 

[natchitoches]

man i love that blade.
them and the other clear points would look so bad to the bone .
in a backed lighted arrowhead case.
i seen some at a artifacts show, thay look so AWESOME!
i been looking for a place to buy one for larson, but not found one.
guess il have to go back to the big texas show to get it.

 

[11KBP]

Late this afternoon. The point so clear it's like looking into an ice cube. The KRF blade is the largest I've found. (So far)

Beautiful pieces T Witko.

Like Steve pointed out, your big blade may be pet wood.

 

[T Witko]

Beautiful pieces T Witko.

Like Steve pointed out, your big blade may be pet wood.

I agree. That makes it my largest PetWood piece. (So far)

 

[natchitoches]

lol love your new avatar t witko

 

[Americus]

Wow! Love the point. The blade is also nice. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Tnmountains]

Unbelievable. curious have you guys have run a pit to see how long an occupation you had? Does it go back past the buffalo culture and do the tools change any? Nice find sir. Thanks for sharing them.

 

[GatorBoy]

I agree..would love to see what the old stuff looks like.

 

[T Witko]

Unbelievable. curious have you guys have run a pit to see how long an occupation you had? Does it go back past the buffalo culture and do the tools change any? Nice find sir. Thanks for sharing them.

Thanks and no we've done very little digging. But we are do find points (to many to be coincidence) that date back at least 6000 years. Also the types and styles of scrapers we find as well as the variety of pottery styles give some indication of very long occupation. We also know that the site was abandoned around 1740. Steve is more knowledgeable than I an about dating points and scrapers.
I personally think the site was occupied and re-occuppied many times. I think when the resources in the area began to deplete, they would move away for a couple generations and than return after the area recovered.

 

[larson1951]

T Witko is right
the only thing we have done other than surface hunting is examining a small section of caved in creek channel which caves in a little each year
we found stratification 6 feet deep on the edge of a vertical bank on one side of the old creek channel
larson1951

 

[GatorBoy]

Ahhh..I would love to hunt that creek!

 

[larson1951]

Ahhh..I would love to hunt that creek!

me too GB
it is not much but (we, T Witko, Russy, and our boss (Digger) must follow the rules, good thing is we are already spoiled and happy the way it is..................
................so, there fore we thank the Mandan spirits and ancestors) for the great site we are able to care for;
i have helped here for about six years ,
i could not keep up without him and in addition, russy sure puts in his share too
larson1951

 

[GatorBoy]

Love it. Thank you so much for sharing.

 

[larson1951]

edit:
i have known Twitko and Russy for over 26 years which is when i first started taking care of this site
but we got connected and started hunting at this site many years less (about 5 yrs ago) we are remnants of the 'old hippie days'
we still retain some of our old habits and beliefs..........now "we are livin' the dream"

 

[natchitoches]

al the old 'old hippie days' i reamber them well

 

[T Witko]

me too GB
it is not much but (we, T Witko, Russy, and our boss (Digger) must follow the rules, good thing is we are already spoiled and happy the way it is..................
................so, there fore we thank the Mandan spirits and ancestors) for the great site we are able to care for;
i have helped here for about six years ,
i could not keep up without him and in addition, russy sure puts in his share too
larson1951

Yes and not difficult rules to follow because there's still lots to find just walking the field. We very spoiled. As I've said before " it always something and it usually something pretty or unusual."