Lone Star
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A bit over a year ago I was helping an old friend shuffle through the hundreds of arrowheads, dart points, and pottery pieces that she found while growing up and living out on the Eastern Side of Trinity Bay, a branch of the greater Galveston Bay System. Well over her 80's now she never had any input as to all the Native American Artifacts she found while beach combing the shorelines of this backwater bay. The shoreline from where my house was to hers, and continuing past for another mile or so was almost non-stop shell middens. All different occupation episodes, and the density of artifacts was absolutely mind blowing.
When I purchased our home and property out there you couldn't take a step down the shoreline without walking across several pottery sherds. If you were keen eyed and paid attention you may also spot an occasional worked bone tool and possibly some flint chips among the Rangia Cuneata clam shells piles and the scattered Oyster shell piles. I thought I died and went to Heaven.
She started her beach walking as a girl in the 1930's and continued after every significant storm and high water event until I met her about 15 years ago. Never having any real knowledge or knowing the significance of the various point styles, bone and pottery she found. I was excited, to say the least, to start her education. We became great friends and still are to this day.
Last week my buddie Dewey and I went to visit with her and she pulled out several bags of random pottery sherds for us to go thru. Last year when she did that I identified the only boat stone I ever saw from Coastal Texas, and sorted about 250 loose points. This time I spied three pendants and a complete asphaltum paint pot in the mix. There is still a lot of ashaltum residue in the hand held paint pot, and you can see where the application tool (crushed reeds) was smoothened on the lip of the dish. She still has about 10-5 gallon buckets of sherds and pieces to go through.
When I purchased our home and property out there you couldn't take a step down the shoreline without walking across several pottery sherds. If you were keen eyed and paid attention you may also spot an occasional worked bone tool and possibly some flint chips among the Rangia Cuneata clam shells piles and the scattered Oyster shell piles. I thought I died and went to Heaven.
She started her beach walking as a girl in the 1930's and continued after every significant storm and high water event until I met her about 15 years ago. Never having any real knowledge or knowing the significance of the various point styles, bone and pottery she found. I was excited, to say the least, to start her education. We became great friends and still are to this day.
Last week my buddie Dewey and I went to visit with her and she pulled out several bags of random pottery sherds for us to go thru. Last year when she did that I identified the only boat stone I ever saw from Coastal Texas, and sorted about 250 loose points. This time I spied three pendants and a complete asphaltum paint pot in the mix. There is still a lot of ashaltum residue in the hand held paint pot, and you can see where the application tool (crushed reeds) was smoothened on the lip of the dish. She still has about 10-5 gallon buckets of sherds and pieces to go through.
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