My first blade

[Freemindedclark]

My first Paleo blade

Found this in South West Iowa up in the hills. I knew there was bound to be something up there to find.

 

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[Relicgrubber]

Nice Example of a Paleo Blade. Congrats!

 

[welsbury]

Great flake knife,good for you.

 

[Freemindedclark]

Nice Example of a Paleo Blade. Congrats!

That means that it is probably really old?

 

[jamey]

sweet

 

[Tdog]

That means that it is probably really old?

Yes it does! At least 10K! Nice one too. Congrats.

 

[sandchip]

I like it.

 

[quito]

Nice one!

Way to go freemindedClark

 

[arrow86]

Nice find , good eye spotting that one

 

[GaRebel1861]

 

[Freemindedclark]

Any ideas as far as the insurance value this might need?

 

[joshuaream]

Nice find, those are often broken or used up to the point that they look like little thumb scrapers. Definitely a sign that people were hanging out, using and losing tools there in prehistoric times.

Any ideas as far as the insurance value this might need?

Individual flake tools (bladelets, cores, utilized flakes, uniface scrapers, thumb scrapers) are usually not worth insuring from a monetary point of view.

 

[Freemindedclark]

Nice find, those are often broken or used up to the point that they look like little thumb scrapers. Definitely a sign that people were hanging out, using and losing tools there in prehistoric times.



Individual flake tools (bladelets, cores, utilized flakes, uniface scrapers, thumb scrapers) are usually not worth insuring from a monetary point of view.

I have a large bowl that I found in the same area. What about as far as additional value added to my collection. Are we talking $20-$30 or $120-$130 or $5-$10?

 

[tomclark]

That is a KILLER tool!

 

[arrow86]

Assuming you mean the knife / scraper and not the Bowl I would think 5-10$ ...like others said this type of artifact just doesn’t bring much value

 

[jamey]

you could get a hundred dollars for it id bet,lets see the bowl..

 

[Freemindedclark]

you could get a hundred dollars for it id bet,lets see the bowl..

Ok let me get a picture of it

 

[Freemindedclark]

you could get a hundred dollars for it id bet,lets see the bowl..

A bowl probably isn't the correct term

 

[Tdog]

A bowl probably isn't the correct term
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I'd say that's the counterpart to a mano; a metate and a nice one too!

 

[Relicgrubber]

Yeppers! Metate for sure... Nice find Freeminded.