My Serendepity

[Digger54]

I consider myself an incidental Arrow Head hunter. I watch for points whenever I beachcomb or metal detect. I recently opened up my case to add a few that I have found over the last year. Figured while I had it open I would share pics of my small collection. First, the most unusual one I have is a point that by the way it was knapped has a twist to it. I wonder if that added any accuracy?

I plan on passing my collection which was collected in the coastal SC Low Country on to my daughter.

 

[russau]

and a NICE ONE IT IS ! Passing your collection to your daughter is the right thing to do ! SALUTE

 

[Trezurehunter]

That is a sweet looking point. I like your display alsol.

 

[Hellbilly]

Nice Bolen Bevel. Gets that twist from resharpening dont start out that way.

 

[ToddsPoint]

That’s a skinning knife. It’s beveled for a right handed person as usual. The bevel acts like a ramp that pushes the hide away from the flesh. I’ve made them and used them for skinning. I did a coyote and one deer. I’m left handed and your knife wouldn’t work for me. I had to chip one and put the bevel on the other side for it to work. Beveling is an early archaic trait. 7500BC-6000BC. In the late 1800s, archaeologist Warren Moorhead wrote a book called “The Stone Age in North America “. In it, he calls the beveled points “rotary spears”. They believed at the time they were spear points and that the bevel caused the spear to rotate in flight. That’s nonsense and it is totally a function of skinning. Here are two that I found locally. A dovetail and a Thebes. The last pic is a right handed bevel I made and hafted. It’s only had one resharpening to start the bevel.

 

[dognose]

very nice group of points.

 

[Digger54]

That’s a skinning knife. It’s beveled for a right handed person as usual. The bevel acts like a ramp that pushes the hide away from the flesh. I’ve made them and used them for skinning. I did a coyote and one deer. I’m left handed and your knife wouldn’t work for me. I had to chip one and put the bevel on the other side for it to work. Beveling is an early archaic trait. 7500BC-6000BC. In the late 1800s, archaeologist Warren Moorhead wrote a book called “The Stone Age in North America “. In it, he calls the beveled points “rotary spears”. They believed at the time they were spear points and that the bevel caused the spear to rotate in flight. That’s nonsense and it is totally a function of skinning. Here are two that I found locally. A dovetail and a Thebes. The last pic is a right handed bevel I made and hafted. It’s only had one resharpening to start the bevel.View attachment 2257921View attachment 2257922
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Thanks for the education!

 

[russau]

And the beautifull points !