Pretty cool! I have several almost identical, and some much bigger, spaling stones ! And one from green stone about 8 inches long and chipped out for fingers and on the back end for the thumb, oit is my first find!
Wow, that is such would advice!! Ill deff be useing this trick, an ur right about us beginners, its all a tool an artifacts lol!!! Sending positive vibes from KY ❤
I recently discovered a very late Mississippian site where they were harvesting lumber. There were rocks just like that there, and I could tell they were using though rock to shape the inside arch of wood. Like the inside of a canoe. That’s what the little matches for in the one end of it. Almost like a gouge, or a scraper you might pick up made of chert. They may have used it as a hammer stone as well, but I bet they also used it on wood. Many of the Mississippi an age tools I have found have that seem very familiar shape.
With you fingering those pressure points looks like you're about to throw a mean knuckleball towards home plate lol could the pitting vs smooth areas not be simply due to how the object was settled during exposure / weathering And the type of surface (or absence thereof) that it was settled against?
With three distinct levels of wear on the stone with two of them only existing in key areas that would coincide with use as a hammer stone…I feel like that it’s very unlikely that any of it occurred naturally. Also add in the fact that the stone was a river tumbled rock that I found on top of a hill…that means it was moved there. Not any doubt in my mind as to my identification being incorrect. That in itself means little…other than to say that I feel like you’d have a harder time coming up with evidence for natural forming than you would for my supposition.
That being said….there are many rocks I find that I struggle to call an artifact even though I see slight evidence. I try leave identification open in those cases. But this particular stone wasn’t one of them. It was an EASY iD.
That’s be almost impossible to tell without some scientific testing or stratigraphic measurements. Tools like these spanned much of historic times. But based on the artifacts associated with it I’d say at came from the mid-late archaic period…or even early woodland.
Today was my first day to hunt after really doin GB some research. I found a ton of flint chips, fire rock and plenty of evidence of a camp sight. I didn't find a single Arrowhead/Artifact. The area is very sandy. Do you think someone already wiped out all the good stuff? Any advice?
I really couldn’t say. Sandy soil is foreign to me. But I’d lean towards saying no if you are finding debitage. Try running some of the soil over a screen if you are able to.
