Stone art found with arrowhead... maybe?

[kyphote]

These were found an inch from one another in the knapping site I’m digging. Thoughts on the yellow stone? To me it looks like a face, and even more so in person. But that is no assertion! For me the word “effigy” has always been Latin for loony bin. Thanks

 

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[Tpmetal]

arrowhead yes, stone art no in my opinion.

 

[kyphote]

Thanks. Other angles for additional opinions below:

Quartering:



Back of “head”:



Profile:



Frontal:



The rock has a yellowish waxy sheen to it unlike any other rock texture I’ve pulled from the site. I am in no way building a case (I’m usually the first to shoot down effigies) just want to provide all the facts. Thanks again.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Quartz arrow head yes, the other is simply a rock.

 

[quito]

Nice point! The other is natural.

 

[Gaspipe]

Love the arrowhead. Now that you mention it the rock looks like Richard Nixon.

 

[Geradot]

"The game of the imagination" - a goat or deer.

 

[kyphote]

Thanks all. That's the reality check I needed and expected. I'm not sure you can see it in the "profile" pic due to glare, but a portion of the stone is somehow tinted. Photoshop has a tool called "color burn" that will detect any color (however faint) and intensify it. Below is how that tool -- not me -- interprets the stone pigment-wise. Obviously coincidence and maybe a clay stain (rock was buried in red clay). Crazy though. Thanks again for your collective instincts. It's another lame rock, I agree.

 

[arrow86]

Nice point

 

[Quartzite Keith]

The quartz point is a dandy. You asked before about age. I'm not good with typology, but the side notches and serrations have a very Early Archaic look about them.

As others have said, the other is just a cool looking rock. If out of place, maybe someone long ago thought it was cool looking too and carried it around a while.

The flat quartzite cobble in the background, right is very nice. I've broken up many like that to make stuff out of!

 

[unclemac]

if it was an effigy you would be saying "wow, look at the effigy i found"...not "is this an effigy?"

 

[kyphote]

The quartz point is a dandy. You asked before about age. I'm not good with typology, but the side notches and serrations have a very Early Archaic look about them.

As others have said, the other is just a cool looking rock. If out of place, maybe someone long ago thought it was cool looking too and carried it around a while.

The flat quartzite cobble in the background, right is very nice. I've broken up many like that to make stuff out of!

Thank you! Great to know about the cobble. Loads of those stacked and unstruck about a foot below the worked stuff. Maybe a couple 100 so far.

Apart from the cobble, the site has a lot of crazy rock and mineral varieties. We're on a fault but I still struggle with where they found some of this material. Last week I started studying geology just to keep up. Wish they left more of the finished stuff.

Last question: a lot of rocks are small, brown and incredibly smooth; almost rubbery. Thousands of those. Seems like the artifacts I find are always with them, and the ground in those patches -- which can be as small as 2x2' -- is suddenly gritty. Anyone know what that's about?

Thanks also for your thoughts on the period. Maybe my shot at Paleo is improving.

 

[dognose]

Nice point.

The rock also is a nice rock.

 

[newnan man]

I always thought I saw a face on this rock