New Jersey Clovis

[robshap]

Check this out. That is one lucky kid.

http://www.app.com/story/news/local/mysteries/2014/08/23/boy-finds-year-old-arrowhead-lbi/14497481/

[Hoss]

Lucky young man there thanks for sharing the story with us.

[JoshinMO]

Maybe they will share a photo of it soon.

[cgode]

Lucky young man indeed! I wish they had a better pic of the point in the article, can barely see it and certainly not in any detail.
Maybe the kid will turn into a collector and REALLY understand just how fortunate that find is!

[CMD]

cgode wrote:

Lucky young man indeed! I wish they had a better pic of the point in the article, can barely see it and certainly not in any detail.
Maybe the kid will turn into a collector and REALLY understand just how fortunate that find is!

  Yeah, I just went through about 15 news articles. Same darn photo in each 
"I think it's super cool that this happened," said Andrea Cordle. "But it's not ours. It's for everybody. My father-in-law died recently and he collected arrowheads and my husband thinks this was from his father. We know his father would have loved to see it. And from the bottom of my soul, I feel it's meant to be seen by everybody."
So maybe the kid's grandfather was trying to inspire the kid to collect

[CMD]

Somewhat better photo...

http://www.nj.com/ocean/index.ssf/2014/08/boy_finds_10000-year-old_arrowhead_on_nj_beach.html

[Bill]

  Here it is complete with salt water patination!

[cgode]

Thanks for the better pic. Nice point!! Is it bad I don't like that kid? J/k  :laugh:

[JoshinMO]

Thats better Nice!!

[CMD]

Another good photo here....
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.1916063

[CMD]

cgode wrote:

Thanks for the better pic. Nice point!! Is it bad I don't like that kid? J/k :laugh:

Hey Chris, look what I found!

[pkfrey]

I don't intend to be critical here, but the fellow should have the correct information. I just don't see jasper here. It's a quality flint, no doubt. Maybe Zaleskie, or one of the better flints from the Hudson Valley, N.Y. area.

[CMD]

pkfrey wrote:

I don't intend to be critical here, but the fellow should have the correct information. I just don't see jasper here. It's a quality flint, no doubt. Maybe Zaleskie, or one of the better flints from the Hudson Valley, N.Y. area.

  Paul, in one of the many articles, the archaeologist said examination under a microscope allowed him to see a tiny area or two where he could see brownish or yellowish jasper beneath the patina. If I can find that, I'll post it.
Turns out it's in the article that started this thread:
"Lattanzi examined Noah's discovery under a microscope and determined it to be a stone projectile point, made of jasper. He estimated its age as between 8,000 and 11,000 years old, based on the arrow's style and construction.
"Jasper is a yellow-brown stone," Lattanzi said. "The reason why it's black is because it was buried in the sand for literally thousands of years without oxygen. In the mid-section, there is a nick, and if you look closely, it's orangey-brown."

[clovisoid]

Yep, I recently got to see some points -and- tools that an archaeologist is finding at a site along the ancient Suwanee river channel way out in the gulf of Mexico, and they are all jet black like this (the material should be a white or colorful agatized coral or a beige/grey variant of coastal plains chert. Something about the salt water, anaerobic bacteria and the formation of hydrogen sulfide gas gives them a deep, characteristic patina.

[CMD]

The other side shows the "orangey-brown" the guy was referring to maybe. Anyway, now we have good views of both sides....




http://fox2now.com/2014/08/25/the-am...ped-on-a-crab/