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An impact fracture is correct, caused when the point probably missed the target, and hit something hard, like an oak tree or rock.
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Hey Rodney, I think the impact fracture is really cool. :woohoo: The ancient hunter may have seen a huge elk. He was so flustered by that huge 7X7 rack. When he hurled the dart it hit the antler rather than the chest.
Michigan Yooper
If You Don’t Stand for Something, You’ll Fall for Anything
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Agree on impact fracture, but - as an aside - tip-fluting is not an unknown technology.
There was some discussion here, as well as some great illustrations from Tyson:
I keep six honest serving-men (they taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.
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I agree that is an impact fracture. But I must disagree about the tip fluting of the Folsom point. Tyson is a good friend of mine and a fabulous illustrator of artifacts. Dr. Kornfeld I respect and even sat in for lecture this Fall. His book The First Rocky Mountaineers: Coloradans Before Colorado. is about Barger Gulch and other sites in the Rocky Mountains. But from what I have seen the platforms for fluting, are at the base. JMO
Look to the ground for it holds the past!
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Yep. That point got "self-fluted" when it hit something hard "just right." On a lot of these, the flute goes a little bit awry because of the randomness of the fluting incident. However, once upon a time, I was walking across a Mississippian site that had just been plowed and found a large, bifurcate base point whose tip had hit something just right too. It had one of the nicest, straightest, and deepest Clovis-like flutes I had ever seen. Sometimes the randomness of Mother Nature does her work just right.
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Cool find! Here's the link to a thread I started, were you could show your impact fracture finds, Joshinmo added one to this thread that was "fluted" from the impact like like yours. Thanks for Sharing!
Here is an example of an impact fracture on a Bucks Creek point from Western Ky. Made from Banded Dover. If you have an example of Impact fracturing let's see it!
Josh (Ky/Tn collector)
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