other than flint artifacts

[steve71]

this one was dug from a midden area in central texas.i like it from the concave on blade it fits a forhead perfect.who knows it may have scalped some poor unlucky basterd.

 

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[Charmin]

Dang! That does look like it would make a good scalper ! What Indians were in Texas --The Commanche? Apache?
You might ask some of those guys in the fur trade era part of the forum to see if they've found a knife blade like that.
Did you find any metal arrow points in the midden?

 

[steve71]

Dang! That does look like it would make a good scalper ! What Indians were in Texas --The Commanche? Apache?
You might ask some of those guys in the fur trade era part of the forum to see if they've found a knife blade like that.
Did you find any metal arrow points in the midden?

no metal arrowheads found

 

[RGINN]

Cool find. I've tried and tried to find a metal point, with no success. Lots of Comanches in Texas, and Caddoan tribes in the north east. By the way, you didn't scalp from the forehead back. Generally, it was around the crown of the head. There was a scalp lock, which was a braided strand of hair from that area of the head. You still see this today. In the old days, it was a challenge, like come get this if you can. Most scalps were a patch of only about 4 inches in diameter or so. You would cut that circle, put your foot on the victim, yank on the hair, and it would come off with a 'pop'. There were exceptions, whole scalp removals, which I have noticed usually appeared on white victims, who did not take the time to grow a long scalp lock. And that's my dissertation on totally useless skills for the 21st century.

 

[oldgoat]

Cool find. I've tried and tried to find a metal point, with no success. Lots of Comanches in Texas, and Caddoan tribes in the north east. By the way, you didn't scalp from the forehead back. Generally, it was around the crown of the head. There was a scalp lock, which was a braided strand of hair from that area of the head. You still see this today. In the old days, it was a challenge, like come get this if you can. Most scalps were a patch of only about 4 inches in diameter or so. You would cut that circle, put your foot on the victim, yank on the hair, and it would come off with a 'pop'. There were exceptions, whole scalp removals, which I have noticed usually appeared on white victims, who did not take the time to grow a long scalp lock. And that's my dissertation on totally useless skills for the 21st century.

I don't know bout totally useless skills RGINN, I've met a few folks I'd like to scalp...lol...goat