New England Paleo Lances
Posted by [CMD]:
Moderator Note: this thread was first posted in 2012 but failed to transfer across to the new forum when the software was updated, and so has been re-created manually.
Paleo weekend here. Two friends stopped by with local found paleo points. I posted the cool find by forum member JMatt elsewhere. On Saturday a friend stopped by with lances I hadn't seen in about 20 years, found about 40 years ago in RI.
This first one has the top half restored, not professional obviously, but restored by William Fowler, one of the greatest artifact illustrators who ever took pen to paper.
Two small early lances. The longer one was found in a stream and shows extreme water-wear.
Bill Moody of Martha's Vineyard felt the above points would classify as either Ste-Anne-Varney points, which are interpreted as an eastern version of Eden points, or simply untyped Late Paleo lances. He was also of the opinion that these next 2 unifacial quartzite bases, found by me next to each other at a site that yielded one Hardaway Side-Notch and several Hardaway-Daltons were also very likely Late Paleo Lance Bases. Both have a natural twist bevel to the blade, and, given how I found them, might have been made by the same individual.
Posted by [CMD]:
Moderator Note: this thread was first posted in 2012 but failed to transfer across to the new forum when the software was updated, and so has been re-created manually.
Paleo weekend here. Two friends stopped by with local found paleo points. I posted the cool find by forum member JMatt elsewhere. On Saturday a friend stopped by with lances I hadn't seen in about 20 years, found about 40 years ago in RI.
This first one has the top half restored, not professional obviously, but restored by William Fowler, one of the greatest artifact illustrators who ever took pen to paper.
Two small early lances. The longer one was found in a stream and shows extreme water-wear.
Bill Moody of Martha's Vineyard felt the above points would classify as either Ste-Anne-Varney points, which are interpreted as an eastern version of Eden points, or simply untyped Late Paleo lances. He was also of the opinion that these next 2 unifacial quartzite bases, found by me next to each other at a site that yielded one Hardaway Side-Notch and several Hardaway-Daltons were also very likely Late Paleo Lance Bases. Both have a natural twist bevel to the blade, and, given how I found them, might have been made by the same individual.
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