Change of Pace - Historic point

[Tesorodeoro]

Far Northern California.

We had some decent rain recently so after work I decided to use that last 15 minutes of light to wander around a field that I had recently dragged. It was occupied up until the 1850’s in my opinion. I’m not sure how far back this area was used...maybe 1000, 2000 years?

Obsidian and jasper are the primary lithics around here.
I’ve been wanting to find something made from quartz, so I was keeping an eye out.

Sitting right on top of the ground...almost like someone had left it there for me to find was this little Barbed Gunther bird point (fairly common I think).


(Sitting on a dime)

My eyesight isn’t what it used to be, so I put my reading glasses on and saw that it was agate, not quartz.

I got to my parents house and scrubbed most of the dirt off it and took a close up picture.
Wow! Those fellas must have had very good eyesight. Parents enjoyed seeing it I think. Kind of neat seeing the agate bands pop out when you zoom in.





I did my best to backlight it to see what was inside...


I do have a pretty good idea where the agate came from.
All of the points I have found have been small “bird points”.
Bet they were hunting quail and rabbits.

 

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[uniface]

Nice !

 

[H.P.]

Now that’s a special point among points.

 

[ToddsPoint]

Don't kid yourself. That little point stuck in a deer's lung and he'd be a gonner. Even a buffalo for that matter. "Bird points" will kill birds plus everything else. The problem is that point is too nice to shoot at a critter. Gary

 

[choo]

Great looking point!

 

[PetesPockets55]

Very nice point. Love how "delicate" it is.
Is the "Pennant" shaped design natural? The edges of the design look too even to be natural.

 

[Fat]

That is beautiful lithic. Big game. Bison, Elk, Deer, Antelope. I don’t think that your points main purpose was specifically made to hunt small game.
I have personally harvested many bison with bow and arrow. Not using traditional equipment but modern broadheads.

 

[Relicgrubber]

Nice piece of eye candy! Love that trapezoidal inclusion on the one side... congrats!

 

[Tony in SC]

Amazing point, "you done good"!! Like the others said, the term "bird point" is miss leading.

 

[Tesorodeoro]

Thanks for the compliments and info.

Although it’s likely not very old (relatively speaking), it is a nice delicate point on some good looking material.

The markings are natural, they are called “bands”.

Here is a picture of a piece of agate that i got off the internet that was advertised to have been found at the area I suspected my agate material came from. It looks so similar, It could be the other half of the stone they left behind! It’s called Copco Agate, likely collected near agate flat. Quite the hike from where I found the point, but well within the ancestral tribal territory of these folks.

 

[Tesorodeoro]

That is beautiful lithic. Big game. Bison, Elk, Deer, Antelope. I don’t think that your points main purpose was specifically made to hunt small game.
I have personally harvested many bison with bow and arrow. Not using traditional equipment but modern broadheads.View attachment 1908819

Would that be considered a “steer”?

 

[unclemac]

that point has a nice opal look to it too! beauty

 

[ArfieBoy]

Beautiful little point! What a great find! Thank you for sharing with us.

 

[dognose]

nice looking point.

 

[Fat]

Hahaa funny, you can’t be talking about me... young bulls before they get rank, 2 will be 3y.o. eaters for the freezer.

 

[PaleIO]

That little thing was a killer!!

 

[CHUDs]

What a beauty!

 

[dts52]

That is one beautiful, amazing point! I sure as heck wouldn’t want that thing stuck in me! Great find. I love those rare surface finds (I don’t dig NA artifacts) where you feel compelled to look up to Heaven and say “Thank you”.
dts

 

[MAMucker]

That is beautiful lithic. Big game. Bison, Elk, Deer, Antelope. I don’t think that your points main purpose was specifically made to hunt small game.
I have personally harvested many bison with bow and arrow. Not using traditional equipment but modern broadheads.View attachment 1908819

Love that little’Killer Point”!

FAT, You’re the Man!