bmartin0693
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You guys are some knuckleheads. Lol! I didn't post a topic saying "Artifact or Not?" The topic said that I was finding unusual artifacts and that's when it all started. I am the type of person that works harder when given stress. I'm glad I had today off work to go surface digging, b/c I ended up finding something rare and some more old tools. So here it is, an early archaic Kirk made of black rhyolite. The same material as a Hardaway I found on the same land but a different spot. I found this about 20 yards away from a field. I used a piece of broken quartz to scrape the ground. I'm not the regular artifact hunter, searching plowed fields. It does yield more artifacts though, but I prefer to try different techniques to mix things up a bit. I'm speculating that these fresher pieces were left in a field in a position where they didn't make it to the bottom of the hill. There is pine woods there now. Along with that, I found a Middle Archaic, Straight Base Morrow Mtn made of speckled rhyolite a year or two back, even further up the hill, on the other side of the field. All the other forms of speckled rhyolite I have found here are deformed and show no lithics, but I'm sure it was a piece of something at one time. I went back down to the creek also. I found these two very old artifacts up against the bank where I've been finding others for the last few days. One looks like a knife and the other is an unknown tool. These don't have obvious lithics that the Kirk does so I am well aware of that. Also, check out those single, side-notched forms on the ground. Does Mother Nature make shapes like handles all the time? I'm not 100% sure b/c I'm not an expert, but some looks intentionally formed with a purpose. The patinated pieces looks like wasted leftovers of some tools/utensils. I'm not sure what the material is but they feel like pottery. These finds are just a piece of the whole story about the Archaic inhabitants of this land. You can take this in anyway you want, I'll just let this misunderstanding slide for now. I'm peaceful in nature. I proved yall wrong and that's the end of this chapter.
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