Paleo Artifacts

[kelseybg]

All came from the same 4x4 foot hole

 

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[Rick K]

Except for one or more of the points, the rest don’t resemble any Paleolithic artifacts I have seen. Would be interesting to know what part of the world these came from.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

There are 2 points in the middle, the others are not artifacts.

 

[Fossils]

There are 2 points in the middle, the others are not artifacts.

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In my opinion, context is everything. If those stones are off the same material as the arrowheads, then I would consider them to be a sort of Paleolithic “stock material” given where they were found. Thus, they are artifacts of context.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

I found thousands of points when I lived in Missouri, walked fields, creeks, streams and rivers for over 20 years the rocks found around the points I found were just rocks, not artifacts even when the same material.

 

[Rick K]

The photo is so poor that it is impossible to say much about any of the pieces, but the reduction process which leads to a point doesn’t usually result i things which look like all those odd bits of rock in the picture, not to mention that the material itself (as far as can be determined by the poor quality of the photo) doesn’t look like it is suitable for Knapping in the first place.

 

[Garscale]

There are two points in there. Both likely archaic. The other chunks may be scatter from reduction but not much visible work. How did you come up with paleo age?