Our very 1st finds ever!

[Jd.Ole13]

Hey all, we are super stoked to of had a successful 1st hunt. It was a bit chilly today, went out for 6 hours.

I found the tool in the 1st 4 pictures. What did they use this for? skinning? puncturing holes in hides?

GF found the nice point in the 5th and 6th picture while leaving and headin to the truck. And gave thanks to the Ancients.

The last couple pictures are just the heavily worked pieces. few tips, and the center part of a clovis, or agate basin perhaps? any ideas on the bigger piece next to the point in both of the last 2 pics?

def taking cameras with us next time.

 

[old digger]

Cool Finds! Your first item looks like a well worked graver.

 

[Nitric]

Great finds! Looks like a good day!!

 

[arrow86]

Nice finds ..... Looks like a good spot

 

[quito]

Welcome to the forum! And congratulations on such a great hunt.

It would be easier to help ID things if we knew where they are from.

 

[willjo]

Looks like you did excellent for your first finds

 

[dts52]

Awesome finds!

 

[rock]

Man thats great hunt returns and thanks for sharing. Looks like some obsidian finds? Must be in the upper USA

 

[archer66]

Beautiful materials. Love the first two.

 

[villagenut]

Congrats,great bunch of worked pieces. Many first finds seem to be mere rocks or nature worked chert. You have done very well.

 

[GaRebel1861]

Very nice finds! Welcome to the site.

 

[joshuaream]

Nice finds. It looks like you are hunting out in the Great Basin (Nevada, Oregon, maybe Idaho?) based on the material.

That center section will be hard to type as paleo unless it came from a site that produces other paleo points. About all I can say based on the picture is that it's part of a broken biface.

 

[scruggs]

Looking good...great hunt you had!!

 

[Jd.Ole13]

Nice finds. It looks like you are hunting out in the Great Basin (Nevada, Oregon, maybe Idaho?) based on the material.

That center section will be hard to type as paleo unless it came from a site that produces other paleo points. About all I can say based on the picture is that it's part of a broken biface.

Thank you everybody. Yup, joshua hit it, north east california. We will be going back out next week. thanks again everybody for helping i.d. and the welcome.

 

[Jd.Ole13]

Congrats,great bunch of worked pieces. Many first finds seem to be mere rocks or nature worked chert. You have done very well.

thank you! We are blessed to have a great teacher taking us to a couple spots and learning some tried and true'd techniques. And lucky....

 

[smokeythecat]

Those are VERY nice.

 

[Jd.Ole13]

Solutrean?

it seems my finds closely resemble solutrean style more than other periods. Every Solutrean native american artifact charts and movies i watched on youtube had several artifacts that resemble the large size and large rounded tips and large knapping technique they did at the time. And then only found one picture in achaic period that resembles one of the pieces pictured.

What kind of rock is the 3rd and 4th picture?
see how it resembles the 1st picture?

The 2nd picture goes with 5th and 6th picture. resembles the large rounded/ none sharp/ heavily worked tip. with possibly a flute on the end of one side? the right side on both pics is the tip of whatever this is? doesn't it resemble the square knife?

7 and 8 are some other pieces i found looking through the 'pile' we brought home.
very large, heavily worked on one side, large point? it is broken at the base and the start of the blade.

and then the non obsidian perfectly worked on each side/ tip to a point? its a tip. but to a very very large point? spear?

and then the last couple pictures. again, a large rounded tip to a point? and the middle part to the blade?

All found in the same area, Very large pieces if they were whole. is that normal? Why so largely rounded tips?

thanks guys

 

[ptsofnc]

Very nice finds! This activity can become an obsession.

 

[Jd.Ole13]

Very nice finds! This activity can become an obsession.

geesh, boy i tell you what.....obsession it is quickly becoming for me! driving me crazy trying to figure out why they were making such large rounded tip pieces. Making me think they were consistently making pretty big spears or points? if they are even called 'points', after it gets to a certain size? ha. plus i'm just jumping in head first and soaking in as much info as possible. I'm trying to watch myself from asking too novice of questions to keep from pestering ya'll, please bare with during my climb up this steep learning curve.

 

[joshuaream]

The possibly solutrean point in your picture is quite large, your point is probably something in the Cascade type, maybe a Haskett but the flaking doesn't look right.

This piece is interesting. It looks like most the early stage broken Clovis points I've seen from Nevada & California. If you remember where you found that one, check that spot regularly.