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another teenie-weenie one....

Nice, Don!!!!!

Hijos de las Perras!
When I lived in central Georgia I found all kinds of artifacts on the fields near the Oconee River. I got a stone axe that is museum quality.



Five inches long. How many hours did it take to make an axe head like this? Could be 4,000 years old.

Now I live in North Carolina near the French Broad River. I have searched and searched these fields for 25 years. Was just searching a field next to Walnut Creek last week. Not one point, not one flint flake or even a pottery shard.
We had Indians up here for 12,000 years but I can't find any evidence of them. Dammit!

Never felt a celt

i have picked up metric tons of wholes, brokes, tools, knives, pounders, grinders, nutter, pecking stones, even a green-slate bannerstone, adz, spokeshaves, drills.


Never a celt, axe



I think most of where I search is late paleo, transitional, poly-phase archaic.

There is some Mississippian and Woodland peppered into our spots, I’m sure they built Longhouses with celts. Just no such luck.


Rarely find that wahoo, john wayne/walter brennan indian stuff either. Fugga buncha beads from 200 years ago

Down there in Georgia I also found this beautiful point. Plus this piece of Indian jewelry. This is central Georgia 40 miles east of Macon. You can see where this piece was drilled with an arrowhead type of drill. Looks like it also used to have a second hole on the left side.
I can just imagine this jewelry on a rawhide thong around the neck of an Indian princess. When I found it, it just looked like a dirty 50 cent piece. But the shape was so unusual, I just popped it into my mouth to clean it off, and I saw this jewel, I almost fainted it was so beautiful.

Could be from the Creek culture from 1600 AD, or could be from 10,000 years ago, who knows?
At any rate I was racking up some beautiful artifacts down there in Georgia. Just wait for the farmer to plow the field, in April, and then wait for rain and go to looking.
I saw hundred of flint flakes and hundreds of pottery shards, never found an intact piece of pottery.

But here in North Carolina on the French Broad River? Nothing, not a single flint chip.

Interesting, I have also been puzzled why there are not more artifacts found here in my area of North America.
I think it could be related to massive forest fires that either destroy stuff or they cover the sites with ash then regrowth of timber. The land around here was burned about every 100-150 years as per the species of timber, that's just the way it was.
Any artifacts seem to be found near lakes and rivers.

Dayum that’s nice

I have found a couple of quarts points in Swannanoa

That is a beautiful piece Simon, very nice.

nuther purty good one today...

Huntsman you sure find some little ones. Would that be a bird point?

Spent some time looking yesterday and turned up this little beauty.

That is a beautiful little arrowhead, huntsman. I'd like to get in the time machine and go back and watch that Indian make that point, and to be able to talk to him while he did it.

I primarily hunt for grind bowls.
I do find points too.
Some recents...(Quarter for comparison)

Made it to the creek today, put in a couple miles checking gravel beds and blowouts. No whole Buffalo heads but some good points and mongo sized knife.
Biggest Washita I ever found, too bad about the impact fracture on the tip.
There’s a pair here if you can see them both. One chert and one a red basalt like material. 10” apart as I found them.
The red one is an odd type, beveled and fluted, I need to look it up. The gray one me and dad both have an exact match to it found within a half mile each direction.
No idea how I spotted this before putting the window down for a look see in 2’ of stained water.
Here it is all dried off.

That red point is fluted! That looks almost like a Folsom point. Where did you find those treasures?

I have been looking for 25 years up here in the NC mountains and have found nothing. Not a single flint flake. I think the Indians around here were vegetarians who did not go to war. Some kind of peace and love hippies, maybe they were smoking that Colorado legal pot.

Holy chyt!!!!

A excellent day for sure!!!

Creekwalking !!

Yeah

Awesome finds! A great day for sure!