Small obsidian lanceolate.

[Out Of Time]

Creek find.

Napa, CA.

38mm x 8mm

 

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[unclemac]

boy howdy.....are you looking on a beach or are steam, cuz i am here to say that piece is water tossed!

 

[MAMucker]

boy howdy.....are you looking on a beach or are steam, cuz i am here to say that piece is water tossed!

Yeah!
Worn like my Atlantic rocky beach finds.

 

[Out Of Time]

boy howdy.....are you looking on a beach or are steam, cuz i am here to say that piece is water tossed!

The little creek I hunt as produced a lot of very water worn artifacts.

This example at least shows traces of a flaking pattern.

I found a bunch worn totally smooth.

Then again, I also find stuff that show hardly any wear.

I've spent a lot of time trying to understand how the creek has worked on them.

It's hard to come to any conclusion as there are many variables.

Far too simple to assume the most worn are the oldest.

Yet there is an obvious temptation.

My theory - weak as it is - determines that the freshest (least worn) have been washed from surrounding banks in recent times, the medium and heavily worn stuff has been in the creek for far longer.

My location is less than 5 miles from the source of the creek which falls steeply from the hill and then widens and meanders across the valley.

There is obsidian scatter in several fields close to it's run.

The creek is seasonal -at this point in history -fast flowing in winter and prone to flood but dries completely by mid-summer.

So my finds have not travelled far or been subjected to particularly extreme conditions yet some are incredibly worn.

These most heavily worn pieces are hard to explain except by great age.


I'm always interested in other people's water worn lithics and the kind of conditions that they've been subjected to.

 

[unclemac]

mine can be like yours at my beach site. the worn ones are surf tossed and sand worn but the fresh ones erode from the cliffs above.

 

[Crowfriend]

Here’s a similar one from SE Az.

 

[Out Of Time]

Here’s a similar one from SE Az.

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Here's another I found today. Also quite similar to yours.