Winter hunt

[mainejman]

Artifacts in Maine are hard to come by this time of year.Got out last week for a few hours.Open ground was limited.Sometimes when you are restricted to smaller amounts of ground you become more thorough.. I had a more productive day than I usually do in the summer when it's all open..This is along the Penobscot river...I was able to pick up a few scrapers and a broken point and I believe a small piece of drilled slate... broke kineo rhyolite point.Heres a few thumbscrapers..This is made from Munsungon chert that was mined About 170 miles north of me at Munsungun lake...mjm

 

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[mainejman]

Sorry forgot to add pictures of scraper and slate

 

[arrow86]

Nice finds , looks cold ... tough conditions to hunt I’d say you did good

 

[Quartzite Keith]

Cool stuff. I've knapped some Mt. Kineo ryholite, interesting stuff! Stupid question --and I've actually tried to google it and didn't find an answer-- is it pronounced like kin-ee-oh or kah-nay-oh, or something else?

 

[mainejman]

The first one..lol..my buddy is a knapper and he says it's not the greatest to work with..mjm

 

[mainejman]

A little rough it was like 12° but I had to get out..lol

 

[Quartzite Keith]

Thanks, that was how I was pronouncing it but someone here in Virginia recently told me it was the other way. I posted some Mt. Kineo work in the section on modern knapping.