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and a jar of chips, too.

Why don't I find any Monos in Tennessee?
Ya know that they ground things like acorns and other nuts!

Way cool!

Because I would suspect they pounded them in large mortars made of tree trunks utilizing a pestle similiar to a wooden fence post



Very common amongst most all SE Natives.

4 mano's, 4 busted points, and a dandy side-notched birdpoint today. Hadta get out one more time before the snow starts tonight.

A nephew found a grind stone (metate) in south-central Mississippi a couple of months ago

You probably aint on woodland or Mississippian era ground.

I have found points from those era,s all the way back to trans paleo behind my house along the Cumberland.
But not any grinding tools.

Places me and slumlord hunt together are early woodland to paleo by point finds and types.

Very nice and very interesting!

How do you manage to "find" them? Just by walking around and looking at the ground or by daily work. Do you search for them or do you find them just by happenstance? Are there more signs of former settlements or camps from the Indians? Were there foremost Kiowas in your area?

After a long dry spell, I turned up a couple of decent grind stones today.

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jeez, I wish I could find just one.....

Pretty cool. My dad found an Alibates knife yesterday hauling firewood up the creek bank. It’s no masterpiece but pretty material. I’ll try to snap a pic tomorrow.

I’d like to see it.

Tools need love too.


Renegade just heaves those choppers, nutters, metates, manos across the rows to me from his side. He has done went from greenhorn to snob in 3 years 😃🤣

I even keep pecking stones.

I found this one today down at my dads home place

I'd assume it was a spear or atlatyl tip from its size but I don't know.

243 case for size comparison, sorry for the bad pic but I'm no photographer

Tools dont trip my trigger very much
I like thumb scrapers though.
Thumb scraper behind Cookie and Rico,s headstones.

I didn’t ferget about you Slumlord. Here’s that blade the old man found last week.

Glad you bumped the thread Huntsman.
Totally escaped my noggin I went out yesterday.
Lots of soybean straw on the ground, but still good places to search that got washed by the heavy rains a week or so ago.

Mostly broken tips, thumb scrapers, bases.

However the more I look at the lower left paleo looking point.
It was the find of the day.
Was kinda doubting the flute on the base thinking it was a plow hit.
Washed it and the flute patina matches the rest of the work on it.
The other side is rough, almost like a "this aint gonna work throw away" back when it was being knapped.

Looks like rocks

lol

Had not seen this near the front lately and was wondering if anyone was out and about.

Knocked out a lot of points over the winter when wind and precip held off. Getting a little better at thinning things down. Starting to shadow box a few, as lady down south wants to market them in her store. Lots of big buck tourist through there with interest in local crafts.

Neighbor kid brought me a couple nice chunks of black obsidian the other day, so I knocked out a couple of 4+ inch spear points for her. Good kid that swings by to chat for 20 minutes of so when she catches me outside. When out with her buds though, she has a happy/scared scream that will decalcify ones spine.

Good luck out there and hope the fields are well washed,

What kind of stone is that?