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Posted Dec 08, 2009, 06:05:17 am |
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Nice point I picked up yesterday, was able to buy it from the finder who has had it for over 48 years. Made from Kaolin Flint
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Central Pennsylvania
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Reply To This Topic #1 Posted Dec 08, 2009, 06:45:04 am |
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Used to be called a Ross County (Ohio) type. Now I'm not sure what it's official name is.
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Reply To This Topic #2 Posted Dec 08, 2009, 07:24:04 am |
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Good Buy, very nice point.
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sandusky, ohio
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Reply To This Topic #3 Posted Dec 08, 2009, 07:36:13 am |
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very nice  |
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Reply To This Topic #4 Posted Dec 08, 2009, 05:10:22 pm |
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Never seen a kaolin clovis.
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Reply To This Topic #5 Posted Dec 08, 2009, 06:03:18 pm |
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I've seen several Kaolin Clovis from Southern Illinois. This is the best one that I have ever seen but know of several. I think I have a few more hidden around here. Sometime I'll take a picture of all of them together.
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Reply To This Topic #6 Posted Dec 08, 2009, 06:24:39 pm |
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That is an absolutely great looking piece. Congratulations.
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Reply To This Topic #7 Posted Dec 08, 2009, 07:21:53 pm |
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Wow!! Super point. Thanks for sharing.
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Central Pennsylvania
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Reply To This Topic #8 Posted Dec 08, 2009, 08:10:23 pm |
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Very interesting. Ross County fluted points are generally taken to have been made later in the Paleo era. How much later than (Early) Clovis nobody seems to know.
Check it out : both toes are burin flaked off. Burin flaking on point bases shows up in late paleo in general and continues into Early Archaic. Never seen that on a Ross before.
Nice point !!!!!
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Reply To This Topic #9 Posted Dec 08, 2009, 08:33:29 pm |
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Beautiful Clovis!
I'm confused here. What would be the purpose of burin flaking the ears of a spearpoint? I thought burin flaking was to create a sharp chisel edge for engraving or carving bone or wood. Seems like 99% of the time it turns up on the edge of a blade, or working edge. Unless you count fractured base types like Decatur as burin flaked types.
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El Paso, TX
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Reply To This Topic #10 Posted Dec 08, 2009, 09:33:30 pm |
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 i love that one, reguardless of who found it, its beautiful
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Cincinnati, Ohio
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Reply To This Topic #11 Posted Dec 10, 2009, 06:19:34 am |
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Yikes thats nice! |
It's addicting, but it's pleasing!
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Reply To This Topic #12 Posted Dec 10, 2009, 10:22:15 am |
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Killer piece bud. Is that framable or just desk drawer stock?  Hippy |
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Reply To This Topic #13 Posted Dec 10, 2009, 10:46:30 am |
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Its in a drawer at the moment it will probably end up in a frame sometime.
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Reply To This Topic #14 Posted Dec 10, 2009, 01:46:59 pm |
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Its a framer in my book. Nice find and sems to be rare. Be neat to see the others with it.
TnMtns
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