Success after a hard rain

[Older The Better]

I know my spots aren’t ridiculous like some guys have on here but my standards I had one of my best weeks haha

What I think is a Jackie stemmed point, first dateable point from one spot

Half of a chopper maybe? It’s a big hunk of non native material found right next to the black drill

A small tool fragment found by drill and chopper

The tip of a tool found in an area that I’ve only ever found one other tool, encouraging because it makes that spot worth a harder look

The black drill broken in the same way as several others I’ve found has great flaking

A little jug hill point I found in a field while walking to my spot it was an unexpected surprise


I found another section of white clay pipe at my trade era site

 

[alaskaseeker]

Great finds, well done.

 

[MAMucker]

OTB,
That would be a successful day for me too!
Can you tell us more about the “Jug Hill”? Is that a point type?
Also, Is there enough there to ID any of the others?

 

[Older The Better]

Jug hill is basically a Madison point but is found in ne Oklahoma se Kansas and sw Missouri it is associated with the Osage and the Neosho phase people and a possibly a preform for washita points where as Madison are associated with Cahokia and preforms for Cahokia points and are found more north and east from my area.

As for the others one is a Jackie stemmed archaic 7500-6500 bp

The pipe is a white clay pipe from the mid 1800’s I’ve got part of the bowl


I don’t think the drill or chopper are dateable and the others don’t have enough there

 

[arrow86]

Nice finds , I’d call that a great week definitely gotta be some more good ones out there still too

 

[tamrock]

I found a clay pipe stem at a site I hunt stone artifacts and posted a question asking if it was thought to be once in the hands of native Americans that would have been obtained in trade with the whites. Most replied that it was most likely was not and was lost by the whites. Personally myself I believe it was a trade item and was once in the hands of a native American. Still who really can say?.. Mine was found on the front range plains of Colorado, which is all urban sprawl now, except this one area that has been set aside to be left undeveloped as open-space land. The area is a low bluff overlooking where two creeks meet and its the only area that I've found along the bluffs of the two streams that have any concentration of genuine artifacts. I also believe it is a place of occupation of many years as a seasonally meeting place. One things for sure it has been artifact hunted by the people who once lived in this little coal town, which is not so little now. I find all kinds old spent shotgun shells and other rifle cases that range in age from the early part of the 20th century and up to the 1960s in the area also and I have to think those who hunted coyote and rabbits in that area in the past could not help notice the artifacts that would be found there and picked them up. I have a picture of what all I found on that bluff. Also the prairie dogs have dug up a few very old bone fragments here and there, which tells me it may have been a place that was used to process the game by these people who hunted up and down these creeks that trickle out of the front range of the east rocky mountains long before we all came and created this seem to never ending urban development that's going on here now. These creeks imo were also branches of trails these native Americans would recognize as pathways to follow that drain into the the North Platte river and would take you all the way to the Missouri river at the Iowa-Nebraska border.

 

[ohp733]

I have a couple of jug hill types i found in Delaware county, OK

 

[Older The Better]

It’s the most common point I find but no surprise considering I’m on the Neosho River in former Osage controlled lands

 

[Older The Better]

I found a clay pipe stem at a site I hunt stone artifacts and posted a question asking if it was thought to be once in the hands of native Americans that would have been obtained in trade with the whites. Most replied that it was most likely was not and was lost by the whites. Personally myself I believe it was a trade item and was once in the hands of a native American. Still who really can say?.. Mine was found on the front range plains of Colorado, which is all urban sprawl now, except this one area that has been set aside to be left undeveloped as open-space land. The area is a low bluff overlooking where two creeks meet and its the only area that I've found along the bluffs of the two streams that have any concentration of genuine artifacts. I also believe it is a place of occupation of many years as a seasonally meeting place. One things for sure it has been artifact hunted by the people who once lived in this little coal town, which is not so little now. I find all kinds old spent shotgun shells and other rifle cases that range in age from the early part of the 20th century and up to the 1960s in the area also and I have to think those who hunted coyote and rabbits in that area in the past could not help notice the artifacts that would be found there and picked them up. I have a picture of what all I found on that bluff. Also the prairie dogs have dug up a few very old bone fragments here and there, which tells me it may have been a place that was used to process the game by these people who hunted up and down these creeks that trickle out of the front range of the east rocky mountains long before we all came and created this seem to never ending urban development that's going on here now. These creeks imo were also branches of trails these native Americans would recognize as pathways to follow that drain into the the North Platte river and would take you all the way to the Missouri river at the Iowa-Nebraska border.

Mine is def trade goods, no whites in this area at that time and I have other artifacts that are common in native sites like trade metal arrowheads and gun parts with geometric designs carved in them, as well as stone points and flakes