Sometimes I Just Have Rocks In My Head

[Doc Bach]

Occasionally I grow weary and become very jaded swinging a beeper and digging for the old...Some of the time when this occurs I prefer to to hiking and kayaking and use my peepers to hunt for the ancient.Here are some of the better finds and the results of three days of water hunting, mud stomping, beating the brush and crawling the tule patches.

As one can clearly see this four inch beauty that in my opinion is an Atlatl spear thrower dart point was extremely difficult to spot lol!

This point seems out of place IMO.Not just in form and construction with its ground and polished base but also that the material is not the local chert etc.I like to think that it was either traded in or more likely carried in from who knows where by a nomadic person from long ago and far away?

 

Basalt Ax Head.

In my opinion judging by the notching mid body this tool was probably hafted to a wooden or bone handle with some type of cordage and asphaltum or pine pitch glue?

Broken mortar what some refer to as a kill.

Above and below a four inch obsidian perforator or drill with a thumb and forfinger indentations napped into both sides.

The elk horn base washed out of an embankment last winter and was laying in plain sight sun baking.

Various other things that I was lucky enough to find.The photos do not do the basalt tools justice and keep in mind that what some of these Artifacts were actually purposed for is based on ones own opinion and imagination.

[JCR]

Very, very nice.

[JCR]

I have a friend whose Great Grandfather & Great Uncle were avid local artifact hunters back in the 1920's- 1960's. They would walk the plowed fields & creeks. They were by no means the only ones who did this but they were blacksmiths, and knew everyone & when the fields got plowed. Their collection, that my friend inherited, (and has added to himself) is incredible in the variety & quality of finds.

[Doc Bach]

9 hours ago, JCR said:

I have a friend whose Great Grandfather & Great Uncle were avid local artifact hunters back in the 1920's- 1960's. They would walk the plowed fields & creeks. They were by no means the only ones who did this but they were blacksmiths, and knew everyone & when the fields got plowed. Their collection, that my friend inherited, (and has added to himself) is incredible in the variety & quality of finds.

I can't even begin to wrap my head around what and how much those old timers must of found but there is bound to be some Clovis culture tools and points in the mix.Your friend is very fortunate to have inherited their collection and become it's custodian and be able to continue adding pieces to it.Texas is an archeologist and artifact collectors paradise with some of the earliest and more important sites ever discovered in America.The famous Gault site is just one of many thanks for sharing the story.

Doc