Old stuff from down south

[Twistedsifter]

Some older pieces from down south. Cowhouse slough and union side notch are trans paleo, and I was told the edgefield is early archaic. surface finds on an old friends property.

 

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[smokeythecat]

Nice! I would also think two are trans paleo. Great, great stuff.

 

[Twistedsifter]

Thanks Smokey. The union side notch has the shallowest shoulders. It almost looks like they were produced from grinding rather than flaking

 

[Tdog]

Sandchp Is that an Edgefield scraper? It has the Bolen look to me.

Nice finds Twistedsifter!

 

[antmike915]

Nice finds, love the down south artifacts.

 

[sandchip]

Sandchp Is that an Edgefield scraper? It has the Bolen look to me.

Nice finds Twistedsifter!

I dunno. Looks on the small side, although there's nothing there as a size reference other than what I'm guessing the other point would measure. I'd also like to see the other side to see if it's unifaced. I've seen biface examples typed as Edgefields, but they always seemed more like wishful thinking to me. I guess I'm too much of a purist. The other side would decide it for me if it was mine. If it's worked on both sides, I'd agree with you on it being a Bolen. I believe they were contemporaneous to each other, so there's no telling what special task determined how a particular tool was made at the time by the user.

Regardless, I'm with you, Tdog. Twisted has himself some nice finds!

 

[newnan man]

Nice finds Ben. That Cowhouse is a nice one. Soak those guys in mineral oil, that material can get chalky & soft.

 

[Twistedsifter]

Sandchip- the side notch is mostly uniface. There is a small amount of flaking in the notch area on the opposite side but none other than that. Base is ground smooth, and the edge is steeply beveled.

 

[sandchip]

Sandchip- the side notch is mostly uniface. There is a small amount of flaking in the notch area on the opposite side but none other than that. Base is ground smooth, and the edge is steeply beveled.

Sounds like an Edgefield to me. There will always be flaking in the notch area, regardless. The blade area is all that counts.

 

[gilmerman]

Do you think that divot on the left side of the Edgefield could have been used a a shaft straightener?

 

[antmike915]

Nice finds Ben. That Cowhouse is a nice one. Soak those guys in mineral oil, that material can get chalky & soft.

I was wondering if this is also a Cowhouse Slough, it was posted in my first paleo thread.

 

[sandchip]

I don't really see Cowhouse in either one. Honestly, the first one looks like a blade preform. I'd lean more towards Stanfield than Cowhouse on the one you just posted, but I'd take the unfluted Clovis that was mentioned and leave it be!

 

[NCPeaches]

Beautiful!