contact period items (postem)

[GatorBoy]

There was alot going on in this relatively short period of time throughout North America. it hasn't been often if ever I've seen a thread devoted to the artifacts of this period. I like these items because they are the artifacts of a time of tremendous change. Sometimes I wish they could speak.
Here I have some worked bottle glass a rolled copper spear point and the few trade beads I have found.

 

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[quito]

I had one well known collector examine this at Collinsville a few years ago, and he said everything, the bone, leather wrap, paint and sinew is old, except for the string everything is strung together on obviously. I picked this up from a local major collectors auction a few years back, I have no Idea how it came to be together. beings they had much from the area, and knowing the 2 coins origins, I suspect is could be from North Dakota.

 

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[NC field hunter]

Hey..some of those look pretty familiar ..ha..

Yep! A buddy of mine found them a few miles south of me. I doubt you know him. Lol!

 

[GatorBoy]

I don't get out much.

 

[NC field hunter]

I don't get out much.

Lol!! I think you would really get along well with my southern artifact sending buddy. Hell of a guy, in my book.

 

[GTK96]

Just some beads, the tiny blue guy is questionable, but I threw him in with the other two

 

[larson1951]

well finally here are a few of mine
i think some of them are pieces of very old farm equipment


the pink bead on the upper left of the big blade is bird bone, which could have been made any time



this is the same one only not upside down

 

[GatorBoy]

Just bringing back this thread to see if some of the newer members would like to add to it.

 

[Jon Phillips]

Here is an iron trade point in a buffalo bone....






Some trade beads from the "Harney Massacre"/Trading Post Attack along the Caloosahatchee River.....




Some Fort Brooke (Tampa) stuff that includes some drilled Spanish silver, trade beads, and shell plummets.

 

[GatorBoy]

Great stuff!
Love the Seminole war artifacts.
Those blue edged plates and British made kaolin pipes were everywhere on those fort sites.

 

[GatorBoy]

 

[urbantreasure]

Not sure what you all are specifying as "Contact Period". Do you mean pre-Columbian contact, before there was contact in the late 15th century? Or Desoto, Cortez, DeLeon, Pardo et. al., expeditions 16th century onward? Native American "eradication" (in certain areas) in the 19th century is long, long after "Contact".

 

[GatorBoy]

I would say simply the artifacts that were created after European influence.
That differs slightly from place to place..but when compared to the many thousands of years prior it's only a very small window in time.
Mabey 300.
Can you add any?

 

[urbantreasure]

Can I add any post European finds? I am really not sure. I have posted some of my finds on another site and need to upload the photos here ( I am new on this forum).
Anyway, I mostly hunt construction sites and last fall my son and I found a lot of debitage, lithic scatter, points, scrapers, odd rocks. Surface finds on recently disturbed ground. I believe most of what we found is very old, perhaps Woodland period. I will post them all here and hopefully get some feedback from you all.

 

[urbantreasure]

Hey guys: I did post some of my finds under the North American Artifacts on June 7. http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/n...489-photos-artifacts-found-north-georgia.html

I will add more photos as I can.

 

[urbantreasure]

Quartz scraper

Small/med scraper with edged scraper on one end and a finger grip on other end. Found with other similar items, similar material, points and tools.

 

[GatorBoy]

I'm not being rude at all here.. but what about that leads you to believe a Native American manufactured that as a tool?
And why do you think it relates to European contact within the Native people?
I belive that is just a naturally broken stone from what I see.

 

[urbantreasure]

To answer your question: Position of find in situ to other items, material and sharpness of edge and finger hold area. I am certainly not out to prove or disprove anything. The photos I posted on June 7th were posted under North American finds forum, not this forum, though I re-posted them here for reasons stated below. There is a link to other photos right above today's post.

My post from yesterday may shed light on why I posted these photos under this forum:

Can I add any post European finds? I am really not sure. I have posted some of my finds on another site and need to upload the photos here ( I am new on this forum).
Anyway, I mostly hunt construction sites and last fall my son and I found a lot of debitage, lithic scatter, points, scrapers, odd rocks. Surface finds on recently disturbed ground. I believe most of what we found is very old, perhaps Woodland period. I will post them all here and hopefully get some feedback from you all.

 

[GatorBoy]

Well it doesn't show any work done by a man knapping the stone to that shape.. what artifacts were it "insitu" with on a construction site?
I'm not asking you to prove anything .. however one or both of us could learn something by conveying our thoughts... it is a forum and you posted here.

 

[urbantreasure]

Are you 100% positive? Well, darn. As I said, I am not trying to prove or disprove anything. Found with: broken projectile points, tip missing like those in the photograph above my last two posts on this forum today. I have not photographed all finds yet.

 

[GatorBoy]

Here are the items from that post.
You did well.. you found one projectile point that is 5000 to 7000 years old.
And also a Hafted end scraper that probably dates the same as the point.