Impact Fractures

[JoshinMO]

Here's a different one. Nice stuff Guy's!

[OBION]

Great points guys. Love the paleo pieces.

[waterglass]

I have found dart points that have impact fractures and show signs of being burned. Seems to suggest that impact with bone inside the animal caused the damage.

[p kurt]

this is my favorite impact fractured point. This point has an impact scar and was resharpened and then impacted again. This is one of the points that I wish could tell its story. For it to be resharpened I like to think it was retrieved from an extinct megafuana kill just to take more game. It is a neat piece of history to hold and ponder on.

[11KBP]

Great example of a repaired impact, ...a paleo hunting event very similar to the Clovis point that was previously posted on this thread.

[Kyflintguy]

A new addition to collection purchased from a local collector. Shows a nice impact frature...

[11KBP]

Nice example of a burin type impact fracture.

[11KBP]

Several more impact examples from the Central Great Plains.



...and two more that had been repaired to use again.

[p kurt]

This a find from several years back. It is a median ridged point that I always thought of as an agate basin type piece . Either way it is early and took a hard hit.

[JoshinMO]

My Dalton with a broken tip. Probably from impact.

[clambellies]

I've been wanting to post a few pics of some impact fractures and finally got around to going through my artifacts. I found this broken point about 25 years ago and put it into a site box. I've casually looked at it over the years, but until today I never saw or realized that it had been repurposed. Boy do I feel dumb! The fracture created a long flute down one side and the N/A chipped a few flakes along one side and across the broken tip and created a knife / small gouge. Geez.....What else have I missed?

[JoshinMO]

THAT TOOK IT TO THE BASE! HEH

[G10+]

Lots of great info and some truly awesome finds !!!!! This is a thread that's worth reading over and over , thanks guys