Way to go Mike. Nice finds!!!! I know it's been a while, I see you havn't lost your lucky touch. We need to get together with Mark and Lupo and go dig in Lee County. Just opened a new spot a little wet right now but should dry up by August, ha. JT
Good to see Nacho's site is still putting them out. I've got to get back down there and spend a couple days with him. I never had a bad day at Nachos. WTG Mike.
Happy hunting. AL.C
The front page as it stands is also a great illustration of the fact that there is a very
well defined boundary line though TX where points south were predominently UNSTEMMED.
Justin's finds are well south of the line. Stemless.
Mike's finds are North of the line and so do have stems.
Tehuacana brought this anomoly up in a posting sometime in '09 [ I dont have time right now to bring the posting up ]
As I remember Dr Hester delineated the line through the counties involved.
For those interested in the history and evolution of points in TX, this is food for thought.
Odd thing about it Hal, I didn't know that there was so much difference between the area's as far as the stemmed/unstemmed controversy under I started posted on this message board. I'd always accepted that the unstemmed points were more common across the state. They were quicker to knap out and easier to repair then, let's say a Frio or Perd. Yet once I started doing the hill country screen digs, it was a whole new world. Other then Kinney's, ET's and Covingtons, the majority of the finds are stemmed points, ie Perds, Castrovilles, etc. Here in the brush country, I'll find 10 Matamoros or Abasolo points to one Perd. And that's common in nearly all the collections from other surface hunters. And as a crow flies, it's a distance of 80 miles between here and the hill country. Also the Clear Fork, Guadalupe, and Nueces (cresent) scrapers are very common in this area. In the twelve screen digs we've done in the hill country last year, I've yet to see one. During the warmer months here, it's at least a bi-monthly find.