Prehistoric Artifacts From Ohio

[ohiofinds 1]

I have began photographing and uploading images of our family collection.
Flints are viewable now and in the future I will add ceramics, stone, bone and others.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/157937984@N08/
Happy Hunting

 

[Relicgrubber]

Very Nice! There are some oldies in that assemblage of family found artifacts... Thanks for sharing!

 

[joshuaream]

Holy Cow, what a great collection!

Page two and three are absolutely amazing, there is a heaping portion of paleo and archaic goodness in those frames.

You wouldn't offend anyone by posting more of those!

 

[OntarioArch]

You need to establish a museum. And a photography studio.

 

[newnan man]

OK, I'll go $50 bucks but shipping has to be free! Super collection of classic Ohio artifacts. Like Joshuaream said that old stuff is amazing. I saw a lot of very nice points in your collection. Please keep posting. What area of Ohio? I saw a collection from Coshocton County that resembles yours. Welcome.

 

[dirstscratcher]

Holy cow, that's amazing. Would you care to share what part of Ohio these are from? Your very first one interests me since it appears that it could be Pipe Creek material from around the Bellvue area. There are very few Paleo points that I'm aware of made from that material.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

That was incredible. What an amazing collection. Just a guess from the material but up around the Coshocton area of the state.

 

[arrow86]

Wow! What a great collection you and your family have assembled. We’re these all found by you or family or purchased collections? Some really great points thanks for showing

 

[Tony in SC]

Outstanding collection! How many years or generations did it take to do that?

 

[Twitch]

All natural.... kidding of course.

nice collection. Obviously there are many, many years of hunting reflected.

 

[reuellis]

Dang! That is an amazing collection.

 

[ohiofinds 1]

Glad you like them.I appreciate your enthusiasm.
Our collection was began over a century ago by my grandfather, my father and my uncles on the family farm.When my father retired in the 1960's he spent many carefree hours out in the fields. I always thought artifact hunting was Time Well Spent and our kids,now adults,like it too.
Most of these were found in north central Ohio in the area bordered by the Walhonding and Kokosing drainage on the south, the Killbuck and Mohican going north and the Huron, Vermillion and Black rivers drainages.
We always recorded where each artifact was found and have over 800 sites on our plat maps. Many of these consist of a single biface from a single visit.About half of our collection was found on about a dozen major sites including one on Beaver creek in Pike Co. that has produced about five hundred complete points.
Anyone interested in archaeology can use the photos as a visual guide to what was (and still is) under the ground in Ohio.

 

[ohiofinds 1]

Hi dirstscratcher,
I believe that the purplish color that looks like Pipe Creek is the result of heating the base to remove it from the shaft or foreshaft.There are a couple of potlid fractures on one face. The tip end seems to be grey
Upper Mercer. Glad you like the photos.

 

[EDaniels]

Wow what a collection and to be collected throughout multiple generations is awesome. I was just curious about what appears to be what I call a thumbnail scraper. It is the middle item on the 15'th slide. I was just curious of the size as I have found one in NY which seems to be very similar in shape but not color.

 

[leslietomb95]

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I would love to appreciate your photography skills. The artifacts in the pictures add value to the photos.

 

[ohiofinds 1]

Hi EDaniels That is a great example of a uniface tool.Most of them date to the Archaic (3000 to 10000)years ago. Where you find an artifact there are usually more to be found.Happy Hunting.

 

[EDaniels]

Hi EDaniels That is a great example of a uniface tool.Most of them date to the Archaic (3000 to 10000)years ago. Where you find an artifact there are usually more to be found.Happy Hunting.

Thank you I have just started this addictive hobby a couple years ago although I have always been fascinated with the Native American culture and history which there is quite a bit of in the area I was raised and still live. Not nearly as impressive as yours but I have started my own collection as well.

 

[A2coins]

Wow what a great collection that's just amazing I've been looking here in Mi haven't found any artifacts yet. Thanks for sharing your Familys collection. Really cool. Tommy

 

[uniface]

I believe that the purplish color that looks like Pipe Creek is the result of heating the base to remove it from the shaft or foreshaft.There are a couple of potlid fractures on one face. The tip end seems to be grey

FWIW, cementing points into hafts begins in the Late Paleo/Early Archaic era (depending on where you divide them).

The "tell" there is that (when not recycled), fluted point bases are undamaged -- simply untied, pulled out of their foreshafts & discarded intact. From Quad on, you start seeing damage on broken bases/exhausted points from being beaten loose (probably using a long bone). Early corner notches frequently have broken shoulders/toes from this, indicating they were cemented in place.

Good eye on the potlids, but heat like that would have burnt the foreshaft.

Edit to add picture illustrating this (Indiana example that PP.net "borrowed" from arrowheadology. Whole right side shows impacts).

 

[ohiofinds 1]

FWIW, cementing points into hafts begins in the Late Paleo/Early Archaic era (depending on where you divide them).

The "tell" there is that (when not recycled), fluted point bases are undamaged -- simply untied, pulled out of their foreshafts & discarded intact. From Quad on, you start seeing damage on broken bases/exhausted points from being beaten loose (probably using a long bone). Early corner notches frequently have broken shoulders/toes from this, indicating they were cemented in place.

Good eye on the potlids, but heat like that would have burnt the foreshaft.

Edit to add picture illustrating this (Indiana example that PP.net "borrowed" from arrowheadology. Whole right side shows impacts).

I agree a foreshaft would have been burnt in this case. I have not seen many fluted points with basal corner damage without visible evidence of applied heat.There is one (controversial) paper on the use of mastic in hafting paleo points in Oregon. It is available via google search. Otherwise there is a lack of papers on the subject of paleo hafting published in North America.This is in contrast to Europe, where nearly everyone used
hafting mastics at all time periods and a large amount of research has been published.From an Ohio perspective of Early Archaic types the Kirk corner notched cluster and Big Sandy side notches often have damaged
basal corners,though most would not have been considered exhausted.The Big Sandys in particular were often resharpened to leave a massive base and tiny triangular point.The hafting piece must not have extended
much past the notches.