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Mike

Huntsman
This thread is new to me but have been looking through it have seen many cool artifacts. The tiny clear point above is likely a true arrow head. Those that are larger are probably dart points - tipping a removable shaft (dart) that was on a short spear thrown by an atl-atl. The small diamond shaped gray and buff colored "point" in the second frame may be the remains of a discarded knife. Up in the Texas panhandle there was found what was called the alternately beveled diamond shaped knife. The were found by the hundreds. As more research was conducted, a sequence of construction was noted the "knife" was actually constructed as a long oval and one end was hafted as the flint dulled it was resharpened on alternate sides until it was not useful any more then the ends were switched and and the process was repeated. When when no longer useful it was discarded thus the alternately beveled diamond shaped "knife" was actually a discard. That small point reminded me and got me wondering whether it was a small discarded knife.

Finally found what I believe is a combination of arrowheads and scraping tools?

All found within a 300 yard area, except for the fools gold Quartz chip.

The long Obsidion is rounded on the top, much flatter on the opposite side, and the base looks to be broken, but what is there is maybe 0.1" or smaller in size.

Any idea if the rounded pointed pieces were to be scrapers?

All found in the Sierra Nevada mountains, ~ 5500 feet elevation.



Allen

Tiny ,obsidion is very nice.

Was plowing the campground to plant oats, and turned these up. One of them, I showed before (one of the long points on the left). My cousin (on the right ) is holding the three he found this weekend and a scraper. He was following the tractor !! The early triangular is really nice, and is steeply beveled on opposing sides. His bottom one looks to be an Abasolo, and is very, very red. Rare to see that color of flint in this area. My cousin only comes up a couple of times a year, and enjoys hunting for heads. He is amassing quite a collection.

A pard found a busted knife on one of his well sites.

The arrowhead and chips I found above are the first time I actually found chips indicating, to me, that they actually made the arrowheads where we found these. The other area I have found arrow heads and broken arrowheads I am assuming were more likely hunting grounds .


Huntsman, and others, when you find all these arrowheads in the same general location, did the makers leave these culls and accidently , like the nice clear point, just drop a few good ones? I wonder why there are so many in one location. Insert envy, lol

Thanks

Allen

in my case, there is a raised little bluff along a creekbottom, maybe a quarter mile long. The top and lip of the hill are littered with chips and mostly broken stuff. Obviously a camp site where flint was worked and stuff broken and discarded. The few good points I find may have simply been dropped or lost. The few mano's have been broken, too. So far, I've not found any good kill sites or hunting areas. Surprisingly, I have found very little on the creek bottom, with literally hundreds of hours spent looking. The bluff will produce a few chips or something, almost everytime I walk it....

I do too. Really fascinating.

one more busted point and the usual handful of junk

I cannot imagine the pain of having one of those things zip through you. Must have been brutal...

Nice one Huntsman! I found this one while dove hunting last week. Bent down to pick up a spent shot shell, and it was right at my feet.

Nice, guys... I made it out last weekend finally... Walked way too many miles for what little I found. I'll try and hang a pic tomorrow...

Think, "don't. hurt. my. mules.".....

Not much for 12 miles...

2 points and a little scraper today.

Nice material on those ones Don...

a dandy little thumb scraper and some junk.....

That is a neat little scraper... I'm in NM and we have 3 elk tags filled so guess what I'm doing for 3 more days...