NEW AREA!

[old digger]

My wife and I got permission to a new area that holds some promise, but it is such a vast area. There is a buffalo jump on the property, but found out that it seems to have already been invistigated. We found several areas where there were multiple tipi rings. For some reason we were unable to find any points, but we did find these. A small thumb scraper, a quite large hide scraper or flesher, and an obsidian flake blade. Here are also some photo's of the tipi rings, one of the photo's shows where the fire pit was situtated inside the tipi.

 

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[larson1951]

i like it
used to see those circles on the farm east of java south dakota when i was a kid
only saw two big ones and they were on top of a big hill
saw lots of small ones about six to eight feet in diameter
a lot of them were on the sides of fairly steep hills
never could figure out what they were

 

[larson1951]

nice scraper......what kind of material?....jasper?

 

[GatorBoy]

Wow those rings are intriguing. do you have an idea of a possible date range for the area? the reason I'm asking is the sandy soil here in florida where I am would have completely buried that in 1 year. never had a chance to see anything like that

 

[old digger]

nice scraper......what kind of material?....jasper?

Reddish Quartz. (river rock) I have found several similar. You can see the percussion marks in breaking it off from the other half.

 

[old digger]

There were three different spots where we found the tipi rings, and were all within a quarter mile of each other. The largest group was situtated just above a small running creek, and there were tipi rings on both sides opposite each other. I would guess that there were about (roughly) twenty to twenty-five tipi rings in this one area. As to age, I woul say probably before the 1860's.

 

[GatorBoy]

I gotcha... I've never hunted anything that new

 

[GatorBoy]

I'm out of my comfort zone here but were they not using metal and rifels by then?

 

[old digger]

Sorry, But I'm not that old! Use your immagination, 1860 to a couple thousand years pryor. There have been Indians in this area for at least a thousand years that have lived in tipi's. When Custer was attacked by the Sioux, the indians were living in tipi's.

 

[GatorBoy]

SORRY I'm not trying to give you a hard time. just comparatively speaking that's all very recent to what I am use to hunting. I'm use to archaic sites.. some younger.. some older. All the natives were driven out of my area well before custer. in fact some of them may have wound up out there.

 

[iowa trout]

Thankyou for shareing old digger very very cool grounds you got there, I hear alot of rings are still visible out west ? Again thanks for shareing made my day I have got to see a site like that blessed is you .

 

[PrimitiveOne]

too cool!!Thanks for sharing

 

[larson1951]

hi old digger
i was asking about the scraper in the 2nd and 3rd images...the yellow one

 

[flintdigger]

Those are some great artifacts the obsidian flake blade is interesting, all the natives were gone from this part of Texas when my gg grandfather came here in the mid 1860's. In the campsites around here you find no metal artifacts or any type of trade items such as glass beads. There are also very few bone artifact's the ground here is very acidic and bone does not preserve well here. This is a interesting post.

 

[GatorBoy]

Very. And thanks

 

[old digger]

hi old digger
i was asking about the scraper in the 2nd and 3rd images...the yellow one

It's a material I call silk stone, It's a hard dense quartz like rock that in the sun it has a silky apperance. I have found it in the yellow color and also a grey, red, and white.

 

[larson1951]

yup and thanks
i can see the dif now
i am not very educated when it comes to stone items...i am trying to learn what i can from the good tnetters