Great artifact find!

[Johnsfolly]

Lucky or just prepared to spot something out of the ordinary.

 

[oneshot]

That is cool. Use to find buckets of heads along the Missouri River on the high side. Plus find Civil War stuff.

oneshot

[BilletHead]

  That is a nice 3/4 groved ax. I have one in my collection. Grandfather find in north Missouri.

  Pat and I find some of our better heads from boat. Our serrated Scottsbluff point was found from a boat. Its been published in the Missouri archeologist. 

  For @Johnsfolly and @snagged in outlet 3 I will get pictures later today.

[Terrierman]

On Mark Twain Lake there is an island that only shows when the lake level is lower than normal.  Beached the boat there once back in the late '80's to get out for a stretch.  We started finding heads, partial heads and a couple of bigger pieces that were likely scrapers laying around.  Picked up maybe 15 pieces.  That's the only time I ever hit a mother lode.

[Quillback]

My grandad has a farm in SE MO that had an Indian mound on it.  The mound wasn't high, kind of a rise in the ground.  Used to pick up broken arrowheads there when I was a kid.  My uncle, when he was a kid, picked up a shoe box full of nice points, when he went off to college my grandma tossed them.  She was a practical woman, those points were just junk to her.  My uncle never forgave her for that.  😄

Found a few broken ones here and there while chukar hunting in Washington.  Also found a few places where they flaked points - flakes and chips all over the place but no points.

[oneshot]

2 hours ago, Quillback said:

My grandad has a farm in SE MO that had an Indian mound on it.  The mound wasn't high, kind of a rise in the ground.  Used to pick up broken arrowheads there when I was a kid.  My uncle, when he was a kid, picked up a shoe box full of nice points, when he went off to college my grandma tossed them.  She was a practical woman, those points were just junk to her.  My uncle never forgave her for that.  😄

Found a few broken ones here and there while chukar hunting in Washington.  Also found a few places where they flaked points - flakes and chips all over the place but no points.

Knew a guy years ago that would dig up mounds and had just about everything even Skeletons. I know not legal this was about 60 years ago. Guy gave me permission to Deer Hunt on land he didn’t own.

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[Quillback]

Never found any bones there.  It was probably a village site where they lived as that whole area flooded annually in the spring.  The mound is gone now, farmers in that area have manicured their land to where it is as flat as a pool table.  Used to be quail on the farm that lived in the fence rows, but the fence rows are all gone too.  My grandad had 200 acres, grew cotton and soybeans and made a good living doing so back in the 50's and 60's.  

[BilletHead]

          As promised, pictures, pictures, pictures 🙂,

     So, a quick question. Do any of you know how granite tools were made? for those who know or think they know or don't know I will tell you at the end of this post.

So here is my ax head. It is a 3/4 groove ax. This means the hafting groves are on three sides. 

                    Now another tool, weapon or whatever you want to call it. This was found in Minnesota and just like the ax was given to me by my grandfather.  IU have only talked to one guy I know from Iowa that has seen anything like this. He said speculation is this was used to bust open the skull of bison to get to the brain for brain tanning. It is full grooved as the groves go all the way around the stone. The one end is coned shaped into a smaller rounded end. Just slightly smaller than a golf ball diameter.  the opposite end is a bit round at first to almost flat. It's a pretty hefty piece. No matter if it was hafted to a handle or used by hand only the user was one tough native.

       I find this stuff amazing. Ok they were manufactured by peck and grind. So, you take a piece of granite and use a stone that is harder in your hand and begin to hit (peck) your blank and you are only taking minute divots in the blank. Then the blank is ground on another stone such as sandstone or another piece of granite taking off the minute high spots. Then you repeat. The hours put into these tools unreal compared to what can be done today.   Same guy in Iowa Mark Boswell has made axes. I have seen him put in hours and hours. Granite was utilized everywhere it is found. When I used to attend knapp ins where we would all make stone points Mark would be there. Easy to find him because the sound he would make compared to the cracking sound of chert being struck off a spall or blank his work sound was a peck, peck, peck all day long. He had the arms of a body builder. When he completed a piece, it shined.  He also made catlinite (pipestone) pipes. We did some trading and I have two of his pipes. One is a replica of a bird pipe. If anyone wants to see them, I will post those also. 

    Some cool points will be next  

[Quillback]

Keep it coming Marty, I enjoy reading this stuff.  You probably know about this guy they found frozen in the Alps that died roughly 5,000 years ago.  What is neat is his clothing and shoes and how it was made.  They also found some stone tools with him.

Ötzi - Wikipedia

[BilletHead]

3 minutes ago, Quillback said:

Keep it coming Marty, I enjoy reading this stuff.  You probably know about this guy they found frozen in the Alps that died roughly 5,000 years ago.  What is neat is his clothing and shoes and how it was made.  They also found some stone tools with him.

Ötzi - Wikipedia

        Yep, when it first came out, I was glued to every report. We learn so much from the past.