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Recent Surface Finds

Cen Tex surface finds over the past couple of weeks...





This one would have been fun complete...super thin!



This triangular style point is a finely worked, but much thicker variety, with significant basal thining on one side...any ideas?



another fun bird point...



early triangular?

Re: Recent Surface Finds

Clear Fork?

Re: Recent Surface Finds

you mean the last one? I wouldn't know-- that one's not in my "field guide to stone artifacts of texas indians", so i don't know.

any suggestions for supplemental identification books aimed more specifically at central texas?

Re: Recent Surface Finds

The big one in the forth pic. Looks like a clear fork scraper. I posted some of my scrapers not to long ago.

Re: Recent Surface Finds

Looks like a clear fork wedge to me, especially with the broke out piece from the hammering end.

Re: Recent Surface Finds

The Big guns have spoken. . .I'll vote with them !
A more simplistic observation is true triangle are real pretty much equi-lateral { near equal all sides. }

Two of those "Perds", with the pinched bases might actually be a GOWER form. Quite old !

There are so many references now available for identification, from favorite free internet sites to hard copy books. You takes your choose of what works for you ! For a quick, early morning check of " is this a triangle? ". . . I just hit the most current money book !

It just rained in S TX for the first time in ages, surfacers are reporting good finds. Some better than others if they are walking the throw piles of long dead dugout sites !

Re: Recent Surface Finds

Seems that if you take were to take a pic of an individual point, then we could answer specifically about it. A question about a pic with 10 points is a little confusing, give us a break.

Re: Recent Surface Finds

Very nice

Re: Recent Surface Finds

Thanks for the ID on the Clear Fork Tehuacana/Mike, checked out some others on Texas Beyond History and I completely agree...any clue on the last pic of the reddish one?

Re: Recent Surface Finds

The reddish one would appear to be an Ellis point ( Late Archaic ).