centfladigger
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Wanted to share some pics of some of my personal finds of Florida bone artifacts.Most of these are bone points, even though people will call them awls or pins they are fish gigs.I find them in a few spots where the river is shallow and narrow.These are made from the cannon leg bone of the deer ,split length ways and split again,quartered. I have socketed antler points and antler handles as well.I love these artifacts more than the arrowheads because these are harder to find . On 1 site I find all the handles and antler pieces, even a broken antler atlatl weight. The other site all I find is the bone points. We do find pins or hair pins in the rivers also. I found a antler tool for knapping on one of these sites along with some lithic debitage and a few points that date the site. The reason for some of the whitish colors is because years ago when I started finding these the only way we knew how to presrve them was with a mixture of elmers glue and water.Now we use acetone and duco cement and it leaves it looking natural now. I have 2 dig sites that has preserved bone from the middens along what used to be a lake.Its shallow digging and floods every year and has a high content of iron rocks, so it preserved the butched bones. I framed some with butcher marks on them.
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