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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[The Grim Reaper]

Here's a few to hold you until I can take some more pictures. The adze is from out there.

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A few more items in this frame that I posted earlier. Points marked in red including an oddball at left that I can't satisfactorially type. There's a supposedly extremely rare Cowhorn Bolen down south and if you flip it over, it looks just like a steer head, but I got shot down on another now nearly defunct website that showed others that really don't resemble cow horns at all. Oh, well. A couple of uniface thumbnail scrapers in purple, a scraper made from a bifacial point tip in pink, and a really neat chisel tip graver made from a Bolen Bevel in lime green.

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Great looking pieces. I figured there had to be Tools there. Also, I can see what you are saying about the Bull Horns. If that other ear was there it would look just a Bison Skull to me. Very cool.

 

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[sandchip]

Thanks, Grim. I guess I should let Gomer restore that one.

 

[sandchip]

Grim, I finally got a few pictures of some of the tools from that site you were asking about.
I'll be throwing on a few more as time permits. I appreciate your interest in the stuff.

Here's the graver made from the Bolen Bevel:



Hafted scrapers:



Uniface scrapers, the one at bottom center having a particularly nice working edge:



And a sumpinernuther:

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Great looking Tools sandchip. Thanks for sharing them.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Please remove that from this post. This is for actual artifacts and that is a rock and a quarter. Either you remove it or I will have an admin do it. Thank you.

 

[diggummup]

What would you call these two?

 

[Shorewalker]

I would call them sweet!

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Post deleted, this is Indian Artifact forum, not geofact forum.

 

[sandchip]

The brown one looks like an Elora to me. I've got a point where the stem had broken off, then salvaged by notching it further up the blade. Yours looks a lot like that to me. Nice finds.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Post deleted, this is Indian Artifact forum, not geofact forum.

Thank you.

 

[sandchip]

A few more tools from the same site.

Hammerstones:

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Large chopper. This thing is a handful. You'd about need two hands to use it effectively.

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And I've never known what to make of this thing. It looks like a thumbnail scraper for Jolly Green Giant. At first, I thought flake core, but with all the edge retouch, that didn't make much sense either. Thoughts anybody?



Thanks for looking.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Here's a few things I've found in the past couple of weeks or longer. Not much but still not bad. These came from a new site I just got permission on that has a 125 acre man made lake, plowed fields, and a section where around 100 dump truck loads of top soil from a spot where he hunted years ago so the potential is there. I've hunted the piles a few times but I'm waiting for him to spread the top soil out so I can hunt it better and for next years plow.

 

[sandchip]

At least you're finding something. I'm so stretched out with work, the time to look just ain't there. Better days eventually, I hope.

The little hafted scraper on the bottom row in the first two pictures, is that a Greenbrier?

 

[The Grim Reaper]

At least you're finding something. I'm so stretched out with work, the time to look just ain't there. Better days eventually, I hope.

The little hafted scraper on the bottom row in the first two pictures, is that a Greenbrier?

Those are made from exhausted Gilbert Points. They are a small, heavily ground base type. We find a lot of those in that general area, both the Points and the Hafted Scrapers.

 

[southfork]

A closer look at a few cases all one site except the trade beads . The points range in age from Paleo - Late Archaic The trade Beads are from American Flat family property N. California from private property .

 

[sandchip]

Good stuff there. That's a lot of looking. Thanks for showing them to us.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Awesome site trays south fork!

 

[southfork]

Same Camp N. California private property . I'm moving files around so if I post the same artifacts twice its just old age .

 

[sandchip]

Some smokin' jewels there. I love the red one just right of center.

 

[southfork]

I'm still moving files around and thought I would show how I store my finds until I build a case . A lot of these I have already move into frames old photos . All one site N. California private property .