NOT EXACTLY THE FIND OF THE CENTURY BUT. . . . . .

[DisplacedBuckeye]

Over the course of the years these type pieces crop up all within a 150 circle (roughly) .They all came from a small bottomland field somewhat absent of flint chips and flakes .But the rest of the is littered with flakes .Did the Indians go to ''work'' then after a hard day of tool making come back to camp . Or did they make tools and such around the camp ? Just curious ,I guess

 

[GroundS.KeepeR]

Nice finds

 

[DisplacedBuckeye]

Thanks , guess I was just trying to get a little insight as to how an average ,''run-of-the mill '' day was 1500 years ago .

 

[joshuaream]

Interesting you have a range of artifact dates there... Could be a long term occupational site, is there a spring or something in the area?

That piece in the lower left looks like a bannerstone preform. That and the grooved axes are early, the celts are probably later. What is that stripped piece above the banner preform? It kind of looks like a cone, but pretty hard to tell from the picture.

 

[DisplacedBuckeye]

I found most of that stuff as kid on our small farm along a river .But I still go back and find some stone tools in just a certain area. That striped piece is just that -striped flint I think ,theres quite a bit of that stuff scattered aruond .Its a little perplexing to me .

 

[Tnmountains]

What I am seeing is in terms of long occupation and especially the Mississipian eras they cleaned up their villages and put everything into a trash pit. Older sites seem to have everything scattered everywhere. Weird huh?

 

[DisplacedBuckeye]

Makes perfect sense to me ! Thanks Tn Mountains ,when I was in elementary school a little old lady spoke to our class about the forced removal of the Indians off the Reservation by the U.S Army .I think ,if I remember right,the government sold the Indians stuff they couldn't carry and paid them a scant amount for the improvements on the land .This was in the 1830s in NW Ohio so they were probably intermingling with the settlers (who had no use for stone tools ) by then .Thanks for the clarity

 

[joshuaream]

By the late 1700's and early 1800's the Natives in Ohio probably still used stone hammers and the occasional stone scraper, but the majority of these items would be at least a couple thousand years earlier than that...

 

[DisplacedBuckeye]

Hey ,thanks for puttin a timeline on that stuff.I really dont know oldest to newest -yet .But I'm workin on it .I have literally boxes of broken stuff and quite a few decent (I think) pieces .Farm machinery and artifacts are mortal enemies.