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Was on a hike few weeks back on an old trail that could be seen from Google Earth quite well, but in reality quite broken up from age. Was quite certain it was Native American. Walking on one of the more pronounce section I saw this beautiful quartz Elko Projectile Point for an Atlatl Dart lying in the middle of the trail. Took a picture of it where it layed.
Elko points are dated at 3500-1400 B.P.
Sorry wont be give out directions or locality, except Imperial County Ca.
This is a projectile point found in Comb Wash with Comb Ridge in the background.
From the site : Anasazi Ruins
I will ask DD for her highly educated guess about this projectile point - NOT an "arrowhead"! It would require a sapling as an arrow shaft. It is BIG and HEAVY
HMM everyone
I see I did not make a proper statement to say what this is. It is a Brewerton Corner Notched projectile point made on Onondaga chert. Look on my Flickr for more detailed pictures, measurements etc.HMM everyone!
Morrow Mountain-type spear point (or, possibly, a Gary point) from 4,000 - 5,000 years ago (Middle Archaic period) for early HoCo history post.
Strobist info: Bare CTB'd flash into wall behind spear point. Key is speedlight in LQ SBIII above/behind spear point. (More here.)
Projectile points (formerly arrowheads) collected in strawberry and tobacco fields on my home farm, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Projectile Point at the Pagunda area. The point is broken and the base is missing, which makes analysis difficult. Other features suggest the point is of Paleoindian origin and could as much as 8,000 years old. The high-quality obsidian came from Sugarloaf Mountian, several miles away in the Coso Range. Little Lake Site. Rose Valley. Inyo Co., Calif. (This site is on private property and trepassing is prohibited.)
Obsidian Projectile Point made by Native Americans. This style of point has been described as a Humboldt basal-notched biface. A point of this type would probably been used on the tip of a thrusting spear. It would most likely have been made by the people of the "Death Valley II" culture sometime between 500 B.C and 1 A.D. Rainbow Canyon. Death Valley National Park. Inyo Co., Calif.
Obsidian Flakes. This lithic scatter or debitage has accumulated as a result of thousands of years of tool-making by Native Americans at this location. The ground here at the Pagunda village area is especially dense with obsidian. The source for nearly all of the obsidan here is Sugarloaf Mountain in the Coso Range several miles away. Little Lake Ranch. Rose Valley. Inyo Co., Calif. (This site is on private property and trespassing is prohibited.)
Jon found this beautiful point on one of our hikes. He did not collected it. I am not a lithics expert but this is possibly a Elko Corner Notched (Desert Corner Notched). It was used 4000-2000 B.P. For more information: www.projectilepoints.net/Pages/Searches/Points/Elko%20Cor...
imnh.isu.edu/digitalatlas/arch/prehist/c-hist/ElkoTXT.htm
It is reportedly a common projectile point in the area.
Obsidian Projectile Point made by Native Americans. This broken point was in the fell field at 11,500 ft., about 1300 ft. above timberline. Conditions are extremely barren at that elevation and were probably just as harsh hundreds or thousands of years ago. It's very hard to imagine why Native Americans would be up there unless they were travelling a trail to somewhere else. Very few relics have been found at that elevation. White Mountains. Inyo National Forest. Mono Co., Calif.
Find of the day! Native American 4” Benton Bottleneck variant projectile point in southeast LA creek. Cultural period: Early Archaic, Glacial era: Late Holocene. (6,500-5,000 B.P.)
I have identified this projectile as a late Archaic-Woodland Period Rankin. It could also be a Wade or something completely different. I am not very good with point typology.
Persistent URL: floridamemory.com/items/show/134677
Local call number: MF1090
Title: FSU diver
Date: ca. 1990
Physical descrip: 1 digital image - col.
Series Title: Mark Foley Collection.
Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida
500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL, 32399-0250 USA, Contact: 850.245.6700, Archives@dos.myflorida.com
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Large flakes came off the middle preform biface. Might make a hardaway point #northcarolina #rhyolite #flintknapping #preform #hardaway #projectilepoint #paleo #paleoindian #paleolithic #experimental archaeology #crafts ift.tt/2i1juVe
Today while planting a row of corn in the garden, I discovered this projectile point. Holding it in my hand, I closed my eyes and pictured the person who last held it. It's hard to even fathom what their life was like and how different mine is from the one they lived. I have so many questions. Did this point do it's job and kill and animal? If so, what kind? Was this point lost or thrown out after it broke? Of course, I'll never know.
It is just so neat to be able to hold a tangible connection to pre-history in the palm of your hand.
For Flickr Group Roulette and "Five Senses" (touch).
I have identified this projectile as a late Archaic-Woodland Period Rankin. It could also be a Wade or something completely different. I am not very good with point typology.
Projectile point, basalt. If you find anything historic within the park, please leave it where it is, take a photo, mark the location (use GPS coordinates if possible) and tell a ranger or email the park with details about your find. The place and position of an artifact provide important information so please do not remove artifacts from their location.
The quartz projectile point pictured here is known as a Stark Point, and dates to the Middle-Late Archaic (7,000-6,000 B.P.). Technically not an "arrowhead," but a dart point that would have been used on the end of a throwing stick. Length = 47mm.
Projectile point. Tusayan district. 9-21-10. Credit the U.S. Forest Service, Southwestern Region, Kaibab National Forest.
Archaeologists found these artifacts, one 4000+ years old, during a carefully monitored dig on the Jay Estate. They are significant additions to a growing body of research about one of New York State's most prized and anthropologically rich First Peoples sites.
The discovery of shell middens on the Jay Property is also terrifically exciting as the examination of these deposits yields valuable clues about the cultural habits of our ancestors.
In studying the nationally significant and landmarked Boston Post Road District and particularly the Jay Estate since 1982, archaeologists including the late Prof. Byland, have found compelling evidence of early tribal settlement, hunting and fishing patterns substantiated by numerous artifacts including animal bones and early tools.
Byland was a member of the faculty of Lehman College of the City University of New York. In the New York area he worked with the Metropolitan Forensic Anthropology Team in the identification of the remains of Pierre Toussaint, since Beatified by the Catholic Church, and in the excavation of New York’s colonial African Cemetery. He was the catalyst for a multi-year archaeological study of the Boston Post Road Historic District, a National Historic Landmark, with the Jay Heritage Center. The exciting finds of this excavation are being prepared for future exhibit at the Jay site.
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A National Historic Landmark since 1993
Member of the African American Heritage Trail of Westchester County since 2004
Member of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area since 2009
On NY State's Path Through History (2013)
Rye boasts a rich cultural history and unique historic resources including one of the top 12 important First Peoples archaeological sites in New York State. In studying the nationally significant Boston Post Road District and particularly the Jay Estate since 1969, archaeologists including the late Prof. Byland, have found compelling evidence of early tribal settlement, hunting and fishing patterns substantiated by numerous artifacts including quartz projectile points, animal bones and decorated pottery shards.
Archaeological investigations and carefully monitored digs by the late Professor Byland, and more recently Dr. Eugene Boesch, have uncovered evidence for the 18th century Jay home known as "The Locusts" and earlier indigenous occupations on the property dating back more than 4,000 years. The Jay Heritage Center will be conducting a new dig this summer with both trained and volunteer participants as it has in past years (photo above). Results of digs like these and shovel tests conducted before any other ground disturbance are uniformly recorded with the State Historic Preservation Office of New York (SHPO). Learn more about New York State's archaeology at: nysparks.state.ny.us/shpo/archeology/
Professor Byland was a revered member of the faculty of Lehman College of the City University of New York. In the New York area he worked with the Metropolitan Forensic Anthropology Team in the identification of the remains of Pierre Toussaint, since Beatified by the Catholic Church, and in the excavation of New York’s well known colonial African Cemetery recently profiled in the New York Times.
Professor Byland was the catalyst for the first multi-year archaeological study of the Boston Post Road Historic District, a National Historic Landmark, with the Jay Heritage Center. The Boston Post Road is one of the oldest if not the the oldest road in America, "Kings Highway" and was originally a First Nations trail called the Pequot Path. Exiting finds of this excavation is being prepared and the artifacts themselves will be exhibited at the Jay site this summer 2010. The first endowed lecture in Byland's memory took place on September 27th, 2009 at the Jay Heritage Center and the second in the series will take place this summer.
Jay Heritage Center
210 Boston Post Road
Rye, NY 10580
(914) 698-9275
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A National Historic Landmark since 1993
Member of the African American Heritage Trail of Westchester County since 2004
Member of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area since 2009
On NY State's Path Through History (2013)
Last weekend I attended an "Indian relic show" (that's what the managers call it) with my husband. It was quite amazing. George is an archaeologist and knows about this material, but he is not a private collector. He represents scientific archaeology; most material recovered from scientific digs ends up in museums and universities. But the private side continues to flourish. Most of this material has been collected from the surface of the ground, or nearly so. But some of it may have been excavated--many Indian burial mounds were destroyed, sadly, by private persons long ago, before the birth of academic archaeology in the late 19th century.
Many of these guys (and they are almost all guys) know a great deal about the subject and have huge collections, as you can see. This meeting happens just one day a year. Buying and selling does go on, but a big part of it is appreciation and "education", as they like to say.
Whatever one thinks of the politics of such collecting, one can't help but admire the fantastic art and craft of the indigenous peoples who occupied this continent before the coming of Europeans. It was quite a roomful!! This is just a sample of the images I shot. (Ceiling light reflections impossible to avoid!)
Measuring projectile point. 9-21-10. Credit the U.S. Forest Service, Southwestern Region, Kaibab National Forest.
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Tiniest fluted point ever? Has anyone made smaller? Knapped by Jay. #clovis #paleoindian #survival #flintknapping #challenge #paleolithic #flint #chert #traditional #knife #spearfishing #projectilepoint #arrowhead #crafts #earthskills #ancestralskills #selfsufficient #hobbies #history ift.tt/28YP8j8
Projectile points recorded on the forest. 2010. Credit the U.S. Forest Service, Southwestern Region, Kaibab National Forest.
A quick visit to the little town of Old Fort just at the cusp of the westward rise into the mountains of NC from the more moderate "Piedmont". As the name and history remind us, before railroads and highways this was very much the jumping off point for the wilderness and a place of defense for the Euro-American newcomers. As such, it was the scene of various battles fought between settlers and indigenous people.
If you look at the map (click upper right of page), you can see in detail what happens to the RR as it heads west of this town for the mountains--complicated switchbacks to make the grades. (Click to zoom out and see RR line and dirt road in grey.)
In the distance here one sees a monument, sculptured in 1930 from a large piece of pink granite, that commends the Catawba and Cherokee, the Indian tribes that first lived in present-McDowell County.
The tourism office is attractively located in the restored Victorian railroad station.
www.northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/676/entry/
Of possible interest--a 2-min. video about a collector of Indian artifacts and local history:
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Trying to master these #flutedpoints, #replicas of a style called #barnes found in #newengland. It’s been quite the challenge as I keep making the top come to too much of a point when trying to thin it down. #paleoindian #paleo #paleolithic #arrowhead #projectilepoint #archaeology #anthropology #research #history #atlatl #spear #knife #flint #chert #kentuckyflint #caveman #crafts ift.tt/29Ffm7k
This is the base of a Woodland Period projectile point 4,000-1,800 BP. For more information:
www.projectilepoints.net/Pages/Searches/Points/Copena%20T...
This projectile point fragment is only 15mm long. While photographing this piece I experimented with many different lighting arrangements in order to accentuate the meticulous workmanship in the form of fine pressure flaking–a very impressive skill!
I wonder if this point was broken during or after manufacture?
*I was also experimenting with background color. I think I like the black better. What do others think?
62/365 I am holding a projectile point found in the Lake George region of New York. Fashioned out of local chert, this item dates from 3500 - 2500 B.C. It is too heavy for an arrowhead and was probably fitted to a spear. Note the horizontal marking made where animal sinew fastened the point to the shaft.
Jack’s Reef Point
brown flint, 1.5 inches long
Middle Woodland to Mississippian Period 400 to 900 AD
Found May 30, 1988 on shore of Egg River, Mays Landing, NJ.
My sister and I walked down to the river near her house and she was telling me how her son (my nephew) had once found an arrowhead on the shore. I looked down at what at first looked like a leaf in the sand and said, "You mean like this one here?" and picked up this perfect classically-shaped point.
All of these points are from 1,500 to 7,000 years old. Made of feldspar and other materials and found over a one-year period on a small beach in Duxbury, MA.
My favorite finds.
The ones that are not described individually elsewhere in this photo set are:
Top Left:
scraper or graver
mottled red flint, 1.5 inches long
Woodland Period 500 to 800 AD
Found August 1986 on shore of Rainy River, northern Minnesota (across international border from Canada).
Top, fourth from left:
Brewerton Point
red-brown jasper, 1 inch long
Late Archaic Period 3000 to 1500 BC
Found July 18, 1993 on shore of Chesapeake Bay, Saint Marys County, Maryland.
Top, third from right:
triangle point
white quartz, 1 inch long
Middle to Late Woodland Period 700 to 1800 AD
Found May 21, 1989 in plowed field, Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
Far right, third from bottom:
Pisquataway Point
quartzite, 1.5 inches long
Early Archaic Period before 4000 BC
Found May 6, 1989 in plowed field, Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
Bottom Left:
Stanfield Point
gray flint, 2 inches long
Transitional Paleo Period 8000 to 6000 BC
Found May 18, 1991 in plowed field, Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
Obsidian Projectile Point made by Native Americans. If complete, this broken point would be about 5 inches long. This style of point is a Humboldt basal-notched biface. A point of this type would have been used on the tip of a thrusting spear -- a dispatching tool. A large biface like this may also have been used as knife. Little Lake Site. Rose Valley. Inyo Co., Calif. (This site is on private property and trepassing is prohibited.)
Morrow Mountain Point
brown quartzite, 3.75 inches long
Archaic Period 4500 to 4000 BC
Found summer 1982 in Otterdale Creek, Chesterfield County, Virginia.
This was the very first projectile point I ever found, and it was discovered quite by accident while I was hiking up a creek bed looking for petrified wood.
Piedmont, RC, NC I belive all of the flint points are arrowheads. The white quartz pieces are probably plow points.
Dovetail Point (St. Charles Point?)
tan and gray flint, 2.5 inches long
Late Archaic Period 2000 to 0 BC
Reported location: Jo Davies County, Illinois.
The two that are not described individually are the bottom left and bottom center. They are:
Bottom Left:
Bare Island Point
tan quartzite, 3 inches long (tip broken off)
Late Archaic Period 2500 to 500 BC
Found May 18, 1991 in plowed field, Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
Bottom Center:
small (pistol size) flintlock gunflint (not really an Indian artifact)
amber chalcedony, 0.75 inches square
Colonial or Early American 1650 to 1850 AD
Found June 1, 1988 in plowed field, Bowie, Maryland (prior to construction of new exit ramp at junction of routes 50 and 3).
This projectile point fragment is only 15mm long. While photographing this piece I experimented with many different lighting arrangements in order to accentuate the meticulous workmanship in the form of fine pressure flaking–a very impressive skill!
I wonder if this point was broken during or after manufacture?
*I was also experimenting with background color. I think I like the black better. What do others think?
Morrow Mountain Straight Base Point
quartzite, 1.5 inches long
Mid Archaic 5000 to 3000 BC
Found May 6, 1989 in plowed field, Anne Arundel County, Maryland.