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Thanks , Scott. It's an annual family hunt. My son in law and I went back with metal probes, and spent about five hours, probing the most concentrated area , we surface hunted Saturday. We were surprised at the number of points and pieces we missed or stepped over, that was still on the surface. This is today's finds, which includes a nice polished wedge shaped celt and a sandstone nutting stone. View attachment 172137View attachment 172138View attachment 172139View attachment 172140
 
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I checked out two sites this week, found a square knife and two tip less flint blades.
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The next site is stream side, with objects washing out into it. So I find relics both on the bluffs and in the creek. Most blades and points are uniface, with crude flaked edges. I joke that this was a Neanderthal site, but in reality it was a late Nodina area , say 1000 AD to the 1400's. For some reason they had lost the ability to flake flint and chert as their earlier Paleo, archaic and Mississippian ancestors! They used what they found, with very little hand workmanship.
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I found this object in context with the rest. An effigy of a turkey's head and maybe just a conglomerate. Some of the items above was a ground Celt or axe, a nutting stone or mortar, a crude knife I blade , a large spear point,


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You can see pottery shards in the first photo, here is one with a hole drilled.
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The cylindrical and grooved object above made have been used with a flint drill , much like a detachable screwdriver with bits or used as a friction fire starter.


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