Large Artifacts

[Saguache]

If you've got some "biguns", post 'em up...


This "killing stone" was found at the top of a narrow valley
along with a dozen other various size & shaped butchering
stones, possible paleo?


A couple of camp site stones used for various tasks


A beautiful piece of pet wood core/multiedge
tool found in proxcemity of the Black Mtn Folsom
site at 9K elevation in San Jauns, could be old...

 

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[tomclark]

OK. Lake Tarpon, FL Deeep shoreline. Maybe Suwannee cluster.
Big Hammerstone woi

 

[OntarioArch]

Grinding Bowl, I would say. Bowl portion about 16 Inches in diameter. 300lbs, estimate. Found by Farmer Draper in Oswego County NY around 1900, while clearing fields. Currently....makes a dandy bird bath under our Japanese Maple tree.

 

[tomclark]

Huge Adze Busycon (Lightning Whelk) Shell Adze PinCo, FL

 

[MAMucker]

View attachment 1740210OK. Lake Tarpon, FL Deeep shoreline. Maybe Suwannee cluster.
DANG!

 

[MAMucker]

View attachment 1740245Huge Adze Busycon (Lightning Whelk) Shell Adze PinCo, FL

Never saw one of these. Please provide background and ID info. What makes it an ADZE?

thank you!

 

[tomclark]

Lack of stone here so they used a lot of shell. Big, thick, robust shells were chosen, modified by taking off the very thin edge, knocking off the end of the siphonal canal and in the adze case, bevel and grind/sharpen or if a hammer then blunted. The spires around the whorl have been knocked and ground off, a hafting hole is pecked (or not!?!) on the side for the stick to go through and into a notch (or not!?!) on the now modified, ground lip. Another hole is often pecked into the top and cordage wrapped around the tool to secure it onto the haft.

 

[Tdog]

Another hole is often pecked into the top and cordage wrapped around the tool to secure it onto the haft.

Hey brother Tom, do you have a pic or illustration of something like that hafted?

 

[The Grim Reaper]

There are quite a few pictures here Terry. I have a few of these too.

https://www.google.com/search?q=she...hUGWa0KHQIWC1UQ_AUoAnoECA0QAg&biw=768&bih=928

 

[Tdog]

There are quite a few pictures here Terry. I have a few of these too.

Thanks Steve. I was too lazy to Google it myself! I'll try to stand still for 10 lashes.

 

[tomclark]

Don't mean to steal a thread. Responding to a question lol.

 

[Tdog]

Thanks Tom. You da man!

Edit: That "black drink ritual" sounds like something I'd be interested in.

I can see that the slender, pointed end of the shell is the "Bit End" so to speak. More strength and rigidity there. Now I have expert knowledge!

 

[MAMucker]

Thanks for the excellent info. Very informative!
Now I clearly see intent and purpose.

Those are really cool artifacts.

Here, along the MA coastline, our conch shells are fragile, thin and less robust. In fact they are quite brittle. It’s hard to imagine they were used by NAs as tools.

 

[newnan man]

Shell man Tom! Good info, great pics!

 

[southfork]

This Mortar weighs over 100 pounds found at Tilly's Hill N. California

 

[southfork]

This Metate was found in Placer County N. California next to a creek . The lady that found it was using as a bird bath when I told her what it was she gave it to me .

 

[flinthunter]

Likely an Archaic period knife. Personal find from Central Illinois. 10 1/4 inches long by 3 inches wide.

 

[old digger]

An Archaic knife from Montana.

 

[Charl]

Here is a very shallow soapstone bowl. It reminds me of a quahog, aka a hardshell clam. And maybe the maker intended that look(or maybe not), as it was found at a camp above Greenwich Bay, RI, which biologists have sometimes referred to as the "quahog capital of the world". The quahog was used to produce the more valuable purple wampum, and the Narragansett of RI were the leading producers of wampum.

 

[Saguache]

A nice "platter" butchering tool from
SW New Mexico,
could be paleo.