Prehistoric artifacts...

[Road Dog]

I just put this Clovis up on Ebay. I found this back in the mid 80's in Fuquay-Varina N.C. Sometimes you have to sell ones you like to shrink the collection abit.

 

[JGUIS]

Something I found last night while arrowhead hunting really surprised me. I saw a valley with trees that looked like a good place to check for bottles. The valley was cut from a strong spring coming out of the top of the hill. I looked around the creekbed and spotted a piece of petrified wood, then another, and another. My sis and I hauled about 50lbs. of petrified wood pieces out of that creekbed and never dug at all. This area is the oldest as far as settling here goes, but it's also the most unchanged. It's been farm fields since people settled here in 1805, and mastodon remains were found a couple miles away years ago. I did a little research and found that the basic minimum age for petrified wood is about 100,000-65,000,000 years old. WOW! I'll get some pics.

 

[JGUIS]

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[JGUIS]

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[JGUIS]

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You can see some of the petrified sap in this one. Looks like grey/brown flint.

 

[NORG]

Nice stuff.

-Here's some stuff I found today in the potato garden plus a couple 'historic' pipestems ...

 

[CALDIGR2]

Local petrified wood.

 

[PhilaBottles]

that wood is probably lithic material traded? carried? pretty cool.

and if anyone lives near the NE, check this book out...Typology and Nomenclature of New York State. google it. it gives you dates and the names of point types.

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[JustGlass]

I was supose to go arrowheading with GlassKeeper, and he called to say he had more important things to do....rake branches that had fallen on his lawn...GlassKeeper ya got your priorities all wrong. Just to rub it in a bit heres a old otter creek spear point I found that had your name on it...I will post the other artifacts I found at another time.

 

[JustGlass]

Here is a pic of a 3 1/2 inch clovis point I picked up from a local collector / dealer. This man has a good reputation for dealing with authentic artifacts but when it comes to clovis points I sometimes wonder about thier origin. Does anyone know where I could get this point authenicated and what the going rate is for this service. Ive seen flint similar to this and I believe it was out of NY.