Artifacts For Your Enjoyment

[The Grim Reaper]

How about just some random artifact pictures for us to gander at. (I know you're not supposed to end a sentence in a preposition but to heck with Mrs Whatshername from the 5th grade)

Anyway, feel free to add as many as you'd like. I'll get us started.

 

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[joshuaream]

What are these artifact things you about which you are writing? (Easier to say with a preposition at the end.)

Good idea for a post.

 

[BenjaminE]

In case anyone is interested, here is an antler punch from the Gault site:

https://sites.utexas.edu/tarl/2018/03/28/prehistoric-flintknapping-tool-research-for-experimental-archeology-by-christopher-w-ringstaff/

 

[ToddsPoint]

You've got to watch handling those antler/bone pins. You never know where they've been. Gary

 

[ptsofnc]

Thanks! Whenever I find any artifact, I'm always wondering....."how long ago was this made?....how did you live?...what were conditions like?...what were the populations of this continent?...when did your ancestors get here?...how did you get here?...where did you travel here from?"...etc. And while I'm thinking about these things realizing that the people who lived here (in N America) were completely unaware of people on other continents....and people on other continents were unaware of the people in N America and even unaware that there was a N America. That is why it is amazing to find anything that connects us to these prehistoric people. Mysteries (to us).

 

[newnan man]

 

[filmiracl]

Hmm, why do you suppose there were holes drilled in the bannerstone?

 

[newnan man]

Hmm, why do you suppose there were holes drilled in the bannerstone?

I was wondering the same thing. It obviously was important to the owner. Even broke it is a fantastic artifact.

 

[Charl]

Here's are artifacts in the collection of the Robbins Museum of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society. These are all from New England....

 

[Charl]

More New England artifacts from the Robbins Museum...













These are from the famous Bull Brook Paleo site in Ipswich, Ma:

 

[southfork]

Part of the Artifact Jack collection . My hunting partner for the last 45 years N. California and the Great Basin. Sorry about the sideways photos .

 

[southfork]

My personal collection N. California and the Great Basin from private property .

 

[BenjaminE]

Horseshoe Cave Pouch and Flintknapping Kit

 

[BenjaminE]

Turner Group Mound Flakers and Tools

 

[filmiracl]

Wait a minute... half of those artifacts found in a pouch together "show no signs of being worked. Natural rocks."

Horseshoe Cave Pouch and Flintknapping Kit

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[BenjaminE]

Late Woodland Albee phase bone tools and flintknapping punch

 

[BenjaminE]

Clovis point from Sonora Mexico

 

[BenjaminE]

Jade tipped pressure flaker

 

[BenjaminE]

Big biface

 

[sandchip]

Love that little celt in the center of the last picture, Grim. That's something that has eluded me for way too long now. Thanks for sharing.