Friday find

[tonykidd]

A good shower loosened up some more dirt for us View attachment 1445321, so we were able to find some artifacts in two different places. One spot is typically early Archaic, and the other is late Archaic into Woodland.

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[Ici]

Love the 2 daltons. Great finds

 

[tonykidd]

Thanks! First two I've found there.

 

[PullTabSlayer]

Very Nice!

 

[Tnmountains]

That serrated point is fantastic. Real beauty.

 

[arrow86]

Nice finds looks like a great day

 

[coosakid]

Man you find some nice stuff.... That serrated point is a killer

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[tonykidd]

Man you find some nice stuff.... That serrated point is a killer

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Those are the first two Dalton's we've found at that particular site. Everything we've found there is early Archaic and in pretty good shape. It's better to be lucky than good!

 

[newnan man]

You sure have an uncanny ability to find nice points!

 

[tonykidd]

You sure have an uncanny ability to find nice points!

It's mostly luck and a great deal of work. Finding a great campsite is 99% of it though. There's a bunch of people on here with a lot better points than I have!

 

[Dirt fishing Wolf]

Those are some very nice finds, I don't find many whole points here.

 

[tonykidd]

Those are some very nice finds, I don't find many whole points here.

I'm no expert, but we have begun to take a more thoughtful approach to hunting for artifacts. We were finding plenty of broken points and tools, enough that it was getting annoying. So we decided to take a different approach based upon common sense.
Most of the area around where we look has been farmed or logged over the years. We have been concentrating on undisturbed areas. It's a lot tougher, takes more time and effort and the weather affects the hunt more than, say, walking a plowed field. With summer coming we are beginning to struggle with the heat and humidity, and have to limit our activities tremendously. Our site determination is fairly simple. We typically look for either existing water or indications of where we believe water may have been thousands of years ago. Then, we determine where we would have lived back then, taking into account rising water, ease of defense, easy and sanitary waste disposal and access to the water supply. More often than not, we'll find some evidence of habitation, then it's a matter of labor: raking, digging and sifting. We find more whole points than broken ones now, at least for the time being.

 

[crj1968]

We were finding plenty of broken points and tools, enough that it was getting annoying.

uhhhh....I wish I had that problem out west!

Sounds like you are dialed in....looking forward to your finds as always!