recent ohio field finds

[creek astronaut]

Got out this past saturday for 6 hours and went hunting with pickaway for 6 hours on sunday. i think pick schooled me on sunday,he found quite a few nice points(he needs to post some pics) and we found a ton of brokes.i found a ton of brokes on saturday also.we were hunting the same spot both days.i also hunted some yesterday evening and today at a different spot and found a few decent ones.i usually dont take pics of all the brokes i find,but since i found so many this past weekend i thought i would take some pics.i was getting a little frustrated on saturday with all the brokes.i think farmer jon hit every freakin artifact in the joint!
this is a e-notch i found on sunday,cool shovel worked nose with a little damage to the base and tang that looks ancient but still made me happy.

the better stuff from sat.and sun.a couple hafted scrapers a couple broken drills and a big knife and some other misc.

scrapers,preforms,knives

next 3 pics are of brokes

found this ohio thebes today

everything else i found from the same field yesterday evening and today

 

[Th3rty7]

Nice haul man, those thebes are sweet points. I never get tired of looking at colorful ohio lithics.

 

[seeker41]

nice stuff greg!!! got a few brokes myself recently but nothing good.

 

[uniface]

Wow, Greg-Rocks !

If you don't live in artifact paradise, you must be next door to it

Early Archaic & Paleo tools from anywhere get me excited, and you've got a week's worth just in this thread.

Maybe some different strokes for different folks involved, but the E-Notch in the first picture is particularly interesting. People often figure stuff like this is "broken" or "field grade." As you probably know, that's not the case here ; it's even more interesting than a "trophy" piece would be, because it shows a lot more about what the people who used it were doing with it.

E.g., by about the second or third re-sharpening (from the serrated edges it probably wasn't made with, the shorter removals on the left side showing it's probably in the process of being bevelled), the tip's knocked off and re-flaked as an endscraper.

The left shoulder's burin flaked off (a real characteristic Early Archaic practice you can often find in the NE on Charlestons, Pine Trees and other EA points beside Decaturs), and the left notch is opened-up (also not uncommon -- maybe for a sharp edge that shape). Finally, the basal edge (that, like the side notch probably was, would have been ground smooth) is re-done for more sharp edges.

Overall, it was either never hafted in the first place, or un-hafted and used as a convenient tool blank fairly early on. In the bigger picture, either somebody must have been far from home and needed some specialised working edges to sacrifice a point like this, or lived where there were so many "more where that came from" that treating it carefully wasn't much of a consideration.

In theory, anybody could have modified it later, but the burin-fractured shoulder and the overall pattern it shows just screams "typical Early Archaic re-working."

Going through the rest of your stuff just in this thread would take all day : )

Thanks for the Show-&-Tell !

 

[pickaway]

Dude nice finds was back out there today, found a bunch a brokes a few points and a hardstone piece.Pics are just taking to much time nowadays not on net much garden, yard, kids n wife and headhuntn taken up time.cya sunday...

 

[pickaway]

Uniface , nice post just like to say hi & welcome to TN...

 

[uniface]

Thank Ye Kindly, Pick.

Got lost in here for days before the idea occurred to join up & post. Too busy looking at stuff & reading.

You're another guy in paradise : ) You folks that live in Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee have Paleo-Early Archaic all over the place. Here in Penna., EA almost doesn't exist (most places) except for bifurcates here and there, and there are some who consider most of them horizon markers for the beginning of Middle Archaic.

Got tripped out on early uniface tools about 25 years ago, when there was almost nothing about about them available anywhere. Even many site reports pretty much tended to blow them off with lines like "Tools made on blades were fairly well represented." (Fortunately, I lived six or seven miles from Gary Fogelman, who took me under his wing). Now, with the internet, it's a different story, but there's still a long ways to go.

Most of my great stuff came out of big dealers' odds-&-ends boxes, years ago, when absolutely nobody wanted scrapers (unless they were on nice point bases) or unifaces (at all). I get lucky on eBay every once in a while, but them good ol' boys have figured out by now that all you need to do to sell stuff is splash the description with "Paleo" and "killer" (most of which is neither), so it's not like the happy hunting grounds there. Wasn't long ago one guy sold a flake core as a "Rare Paleo Uniface Tool" and got a hundred and something for it from probably well-meaning but suggestable people with no clue. You can't even trust that something described as a uniface even is one without a picture of the other side.

Did get lucky last week though -- lot of 18 "flintridge scrapers & cores" from Ross/Pike Counties, Ohio. One of which is a little Paleo endscraper (and of Sonora from Kentucky), one of which might be, and two early archaics.

One of these days I may be able to get well enough acquainted with the new computer (Mac after years of Microsoft) and the camera to post some pics. Right now, I'm too busy reading through the old posts : )

Thanks for the warm welcome ! Anybody interested, or with extra stuff to find a good home for where it'll be studied and appreciated, my e-mail's posted in the profile.

Happy hunting !

 

[Tnmountains]

Ok you are digging out a village right? lol That is some nice stuff. You guys are tearing it up and yes please fire that farmer or take his plow away from him..Geeezzz. Great finds Greg that scraper is a show piece. Good luck this weekend.
TnMtns

 

[creek astronaut]

thx and welcome to tn uniface,i would have to agree pick and i got it pretty good here in central ohio.the fields are getting pretty ripe right now we should be posting up some good stuff in the coming weeks.lets see some pics when you get the bugs worked out on the computer,i was a retard with the computer a few months ago

 

[creek astronaut]

thx pick,thirty7,seeker41 and tn mts i wish we were digging this site,but it may very well be a village site??it is loaded!pick and i have had alot of nice finds coming out of this spot this year.goodluck guys hunting this weekend!