Sierras

[CHUDs]

Hey y’all, these are some recent finds from both the eastern and western Sierras. In laws property and a friends ranch. I think a bunch of stuff is slate but haven’t seen the material before. I’d love ID on the points, especially the little bird point. It’s needle tipped still. The uniface serrated blade is a unique find for me too. I’m guessing it’s pretty old. I found the choppers/scrapers almost on top of each other.
The clay pipe stem was a unique find for me too. Gold rush era I’m guessing. The makers name is not complete but appears to end it’s the word Call, so maybe McCall? Thanks for any input as always!

 

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[CHUDs]

Hey y’all, these are some recent finds from both the eastern and western Sierras. In laws property and a friends ranch. I think a bunch of stuff is slate but haven’t seen the material before. I’d love ID on the points, especially the little bird point. It’s needle tipped still. The uniface serrated blade is a unique find for me too. I’m guessing it’s pretty old. I found the choppers/scrapers almost on top of each other.
View attachment 2050917View attachment 2050918View attachment 2050919View attachment 2050920View attachment 2050921View attachment 2050922View attachment 2050923View attachment 2050924The clay pipe stem was a unique find for me too. Gold rush era I’m guessing. The makers name is not complete but appears to end it’s the word Call, so maybe McCall? Thanks for any input as always!

Hey Southfork! Do you know anything about the points? I can’t really ID any of them and I’m really curious about the bird point. What about that uniface serrated blade? It felt like it popped out if the sky and was just laying in front of feet. Thanks!

 

[newnan man]

That little point looks like a dart point. Nice

 

[southfork]

Hey Southfork! Do you know anything about the points? I can’t really ID any of them and I’m really curious about the bird point. What about that uniface serrated blade? It felt like it popped out if the sky and was just laying in front of feet. Thanks!

Martis cluster would be my best guess not sure on the little Dart point.

 

[joshuaream]

Very cool finds.

That little point is neat.

 

[unclemac]

material is basalt perhaps. Not an uncommon stone for the area. Pipe stems are occasionally repurposed as beads too.

 

[CHUDs]

Very cool finds.

That little point is neat.

I’ve never seen anything with it’s shape before . I barely saw the little thing.

 

[CHUDs]

material is basalt perhaps. Not an uncommon stone for the area. Pipe stems are occasionally repurposed as beads too.

The black pieces are definitely basalt. The mother stone of the unknown type had a greenish gray color. Smoothed cobbled. Cleaved pretty smoothly but nothing like chert or obsidian. I guess it could be another type of basalt but I’ve found some slate that’s fine grained up there too.

 

[joshuaream]

I’ve never seen anything with it’s shape before . I barely saw the little thing.

My guess is it's the result of resharpening a small point while hafted. (Fix the tip, and shoot the arrow again.)

The closest known type that it resembles to me is a Friley, but they are limited to a couple of River drainages in East Texas/Louisiana. The last stage "nub" version can look a lot like your point. These are made from a local gravel that normally comes in 1" to 2" nodules, so they gave them wings to maximize width from small material. (The first and second one have a spot of cortex on the tip, base and at least one of the wing tips.)

Here's a couple I pulled out of the my collection from that area. I have a couple of smaller used up ones that are pretty similar, but didn't see them this morning.

 

[unclemac]

that one on the right is a NICE match to be sure! Could your stone be dacite? It actually comes in many different forms.

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[CHUDs]

My guess is it's the result of resharpening a small point while hafted. (Fix the tip, and shoot the arrow again.)

The closest known type that it resembles to me is a Friley, but they are limited to a couple of River drainages in East Texas/Louisiana. The last stage "nub" version can look a lot like your point. These are made from a local gravel that normally comes in 1" to 2" nodules, so they gave them wings to maximize width from small material. (The first and second one have a spot of cortex on the tip, base and at least one of the wing tips.)

Here's a couple I pulled out of the my collection from that area. I have a couple of smaller used up ones that are pretty similar, but didn't see them this morning.

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Awesome! Thanks for the education. Those look very similar!

 

[CHUDs]

that one on the right is a NICE match to be sure! Could your stone be dacite? It actually comes in many different forms.

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I’m not familiar with dactite. Most of what I find in that area is basalt and slate.

 

[unclemac]

the ones I find in that material in the NW look like black jasper.

 

[southfork]

That little dart is most likely a Sierra Contracting Stem point the base has a flea bite also the barbs get that upturn like a Friley from resharpening. In some cases, progressive resharpening results in a shoulder less lanceolate form comparable to the Steamboat type. Here's a small Sierra Contracting Stem point

 

[Tdog]

material is basalt perhaps. Not an uncommon stone for the area.

I wanted to say Basalt but wasn't certain what I was looking at.