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info? found yesterday in bienville parish louisiana,near black buyou,maybe caddo,im just learning
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Hi Cason, Welcome to the forum. That is a dandy little axe you found or perhaps a hammer or maul. I can't see from your photo how sharp the striking edges are. Whether it is Caddo or something from a much older culture there is no way for me to tell. If you found it on a site with a lot of Caddo pottery scattered around then I would say it probably was Caddo. If found on a site that produces pottery or identifiable pointy shaped rocks from an earlier culture then it may not be Caddo. I am a long ways from being any kind of authority on hardstone artifacts but that one seems to be unusually small. While celts can often be very small, it seems to me that axes and mauls were usually much larger than the one you are showing us. It is good that you provided the cigarette pack for scale. Without knowing how big your book is we would not be able to determine the size.
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Like Joe said, that is small for an axe, but it sure is a sweet find. I'm no authority on hardstone either, but, if it is a full groove axe, I have one that is perhaps 2/3rd the size of that. I just measured mine using my wife's pack of cigarettes, lol, and it is smaller then the one you found. Congrats, you won't find something like that too often!Rhode Island
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