Rocks? Tools? Both? Neither?

[Boringrat]

Over the last 8 years I found around 10 locations accessible only by boat where I find pottery shards. I have yet to come across a arrowhead or anything that resembles one. I can’t think of any locations near me that would have rocks or stones. It’s pretty much all marshy swamps. The only hard materials are the shell mounds where I find pottery. Beyond the shells muddy swamps and before the shells water. Anytime I see like a stone or rock or anything that isn’t a shell I usually keep it. I don’t know if these are anything at all but I figured I would lay out what I collected over 8 year and take a few pics. If y’all see anything that could be a tool or something let me know and if y’all need close ups or better pics of individual pieces let me know.

 

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[jamus peek]

Jamus like I said I few time before in this thread. There is no creek even close to the areas I’m finding my pottery shards. Like not place I can think of that I could drive to within a couple of hours. I completely understand that all the pictures most likely are nothing at all bc I didn’t see anything that stood out. The reason I collected these and asked is bc over the last 8 or so years of collecting thousands of pieces of pottery I haven’t found a single tool or arrow. With that being said I began keeping any rocks or stones I come across bc I rarely see any at all. The picture contains every rock or stone I found in the past 8 years. So I figured maybe they were somehow used for something. Thank you all for confirming what I thought. I just wanted to make sure bc like I said I don’t have any creeks with millions of stones and rocks. Looking forward to finding a arrow head or tool. Thanks again[/QUOTE

I here you man. I find a lot of groundstone very little pottery and never found a flake arrowhead. Good luck and I have been there along with everyone on this forum.

 

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[uniface]

If (since) you found them in an area where stones don't occur naturally, someone obviously picked them up somewhere else and carried them to the site you find them on. No way around that. So calling them just rocks says nothing useful about them.

At that point, the question is what they could have been used for -- starting with smoothing pottery being made. There are so many things they did that we'll never know.

FWIW