Todays Finds

[CajunPointHunter]

Well I guess my last post was the quality and this one can be the quantity. It was a good day over all, got a few more petrified palm wood points a nutting stone and a couple cooking balls. Heck I'm happy when I find a flake or two cause a day spent doing what you love is a day well spent no matter what the results are!

 

[bsit1361]

That be quality in my book. Awesome.

 

[quito]

Very Nice. That was quite a haul. What do you mean by cooking stones?

 

[vpnavy]

Nice finds CajunPointHunter!

 

[digordie]

What is a cooking ball? I have a couple but i thought they where for some sort of game or for a sling??

 

[CajunPointHunter]

From what I know the heated clay balls and put them in earthen ovens the balls would hold heat longer than coals alone

 

[rock]

I always thought game stones too. I found a couple of quartz ones the other day do you think they used them for that? they arent perfect in shape but thick and all the cortex is removed from them so they arent natural.

 

[Tnmountains]

Good hunt. Shoot some insitus of your hunts. You are on a good field. I have some balls just like that. One is just like an early clay marble.

 

[CajunPointHunter]

I always thought game stones too. I found a couple of quartz ones the other day do you think they used them for that? they arent perfect in shape but thick and all the cortex is removed from them so they arent natural.

From what I know there is still debate on the uses of stone balls, some people argue they were game balls some say they were weapons (bolas from the Spanish word bola "ball") made of weights on the ends of interconnected cords, designed to capture animals by entangling their legs.

That being said they only place I know for sure that clay balls, that are almost perfect sphere, were used for cooking was poverty point. That is almost directly across Louisiana from me. The rest of what I know to be cooking Balls are irregular in shape and different sizes.

That's the best answer I have even though I have answered nothing!

 

[River Rat]

From what I know there is still debate on the uses of stone balls, some people argue they were game balls some say they were weapons (bolas from the Spanish word bola "ball") made of weights on the ends of interconnected cords, designed to capture animals by entangling their legs.

That being said they only place I know for sure that clay balls, that are almost perfect sphere, were used for cooking was poverty point. That is almost directly across Louisiana from me. The rest of what I know to be cooking Balls are irregular in shape and different sizes.

That's the best answer I have even though I have answered nothing!

I have a few cooking balls too. Wayne @ LA Treasures Museum in Springfield has a whole bunch. Some you can still see finger prints in em. I had posted an article on these cooking balls, now I have to search TNet for it. Stay tuned!

 

[River Rat]

Here's the article on the cooking balls Jim Maus Artifacts - Archaic Clay Cooking Balls

My post of finds http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/north-american-artifacts/279408-shell-midden-finds.html

 

[digordie]

Huh... interesting.. mine are not clay but stone. Here is is a pic.

 

[CajunPointHunter]

Here's the article on the cooking balls Jim Maus Artifacts - Archaic Clay Cooking Balls

My post of finds http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/north-american-artifacts/279408-shell-midden-finds.html

I've looked that same article over several times.

Ive noticed that your from S.E. Louisiana...hows your mom and dem cher? lol My family is from raceland, galliano, and cutoff area but I grew up in marrero and lived there till katrina