What area of onion creek is this??

All's well that ends well



My turn



Even a point with no barbs tells us that the Andice people were hunting here.



A mano insitu really stands out from the natural rock



Or even a half a Man O



End of a hot days finds

I made up a small frame of the most interesting whiteies



Badger will post a pic of her own drywash finds ( as soon as she takes them out of the 5 gallon bucket )

Very impressive Hal. What drew you to the washout area? Is it cutting thru a camp? Do you plan on expanding out?

A friend invited us out last year to look his property over for possible camp sites. No luck but Badger noticed some flint flakes in a small drainage.
We did a couple of 'test' scratchings and found a worked piece...that led to more serious excavations.

Have tried a few expanded test trenches, no good. Seems the bottom of the low just catches the small rocks, natural & man made that work their way down the side slopes.
We figure it's just ' indian country ' and the drainage angle shallow enough not to blast all the material out in the thousand year torrential deluges

This particular area is about 45 miles from south Austin. As explained on one of the first reports of this drywash was that it is a very non descript small drainage in Indian country. Zero camp'

Similar situation could be compared to "road rage hill" at C3. Just a long sloping hillside .. nobody knows exactly where a camp might have been. MANY diggers found
good artifacts for over a year of intensive digging.

Despite popu lar old diggers lore... ... Onion creek is not the heart of the ancient popu lations. Aside from the need for water, Many larger creeks were interstate highways.Notably in Centex, the Leon, Lampasas, Llano, San Gabriel, Brushy, Walnut, San Markos, Blanco, Guadeloupe and more. There must be hundreds of "drywashes" branched off the main channels.

The one eared big one in the center shot...possible Lange? Nice finds!

That "one ear " is going in my VERY RARE display frame
I walked in the main show room at the Temple show and at the very first dealers table I went by...There was my exact point with BOTH ears ( Mine is not broken but had been resharpend as a knife )



More good luck, the dealer was Winston Elliot



This point will be part of the super book that Winston & Dwain Rogers have been working on for the last 2 years... It is only described as an "Early Archaic" point, there are only 5 known to exist ( not counting mine ) 7000 - 5000 BC



A nice spinoff of the ID session was that I got a look at the format of the new book. What you see in the pic is Winston's proof copy...when the final print is available, it will have a leather binding.

I noticed the resemblance to early archaic while trying to identify

the point, but didn't realize the rarity. At first blush I was thinking along

the lines of a Nolan, even though I knew it was not. The early crude look is

great...Congrats!