Update on my Folsom/Midland site

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I haven't posted on here in some time so I figured I'd post an update on my finds from my Folsom/Midland site in western ND. For now I'm just going to post a picture of the "points" frame I have filled up from the site. Everything is either finished Folsom fragments, preform fragments, Midland points and bases and channel flake fragments. I'll post more in-depth pictures later.

 

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Those are awesome Tundra

Thanks mike!

 

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I love seeing your updates! Great site that you and your brother are hunting.

Thanks Josh! He doesn't really hunt it with me....i just drug him out there a couple times and then he finds a bunch of cool stuff that I end up having to buy from him [emoji28]

 

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Absolutely incredible.

Thanks sandchip! I'll post some more close ups today.

 

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A Folsom base, Midland and good sized channel flake i found out there one day.

 

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Part of what would have been an amazing point.

 

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Broken Folsom preform base. This was the first Folsom artifact I found at the site two winters ago. I never could have imagined the site I had stumbled across!

 

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Midland base and an unfluted Folsom base

 

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A couple small Folsom preform tips. The first shows the end of the first flute and has the end of the 2nd channel flake on the other face. The second one shows the end of the first flute.

 

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A few gravers, a piece of a finished Folsom tip and a broken Folsom preform tip

 

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A used up Midland point from the site

 

[diggingthe1]

I love seeing the workmanship and the material!!! Absolutely incredible and educational for me!!!

 

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Here is a small piece of channel flake that was retouched to use for cutting I assume

 

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Piece of a Folsom preform the was retouched along the lower left half in the 2nd picture

 

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Folsom base fragment and a Midland base from the site

 

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Couple more Midland points from the site. The one made on a flake has ground lower edges.

 

[Fat]

I always want it to be flattop.

 

[uniface]

No endscrapers or sidescrapers or other tools like broken ultrathins ?

 

[joshuaream]

Great observation Uni-

No endscrapers or sidescrapers or other tools like broken ultrathins ?

Tundra, Your site looks like an absolutely wonderful workshop site (preforms, flute flakes, failures, etc.) To Uniface's observation, at some of the sites that Tony Baker had collected there were a lot more paleo end scrapers and tools at sites where hunting/processing bison was the focus. Other sites seemed to be longer term camps or seasonal places they came back to repeatedly which left a lot of your type of tools.

If you don't mind me asking, approximately how far are you from the KRF quarries? (Dunn & Mercer Counties.) Any large cortex flakes of KRF, or just worked flakes?

 

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No endscrapers or sidescrapers or other tools like broken ultrathins ?

I've got probably a dozen scrapers and a piece of an ultrathin....just haven't posted them yet

 

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Great observation Uni-


Tundra, Your site looks like an absolutely wonderful workshop site (preforms, flute flakes, failures, etc.) To Uniface's observation, at some of the sites that Tony Baker had collected there were a lot more paleo end scrapers and tools at sites where hunting/processing bison was the focus. Other sites seemed to be longer term camps or seasonal places they came back to repeatedly which left a lot of your type of tools.

If you don't mind me asking, approximately how far are you from the KRF quarries? (Dunn & Mercer Counties.) Any large cortex flakes of KRF, or just worked flakes?

Thanks Josh! I think it was a camp/workshop site. There is a decent amount of flakes but it seems like about 1/3 of the stuff i find is a tool of some sort. The waste flakes I find are usually pretty small.....doesn't seem like there was a lot of waste. My site is located in Mountrail County, ND probably 60 to 70 miles north of the Knife River Flint quarries. A guy can find KRF in cobble form in my area but it's fairly limited.