Went down to Cartersville Saturday for the Etowah show hosted by my friend Lee Forsythe. Sorry I had a table and was alone so I did not get much opportunity to take pictures. I was able to acquire these nice Palmer points though. I will take pics with scale a little later still recovering from traveling down there . Left here 4 AM Saturday got back home at 8 PM . That is a pretty full day in my book. 7 of those hours were spent driving. Palmer points are early archaic darts these came before Lecroy and after Dalton. I love these little critters. The quartz ones are awesome! I hope you all enjoy the pics.
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Sometimes you find that little streak f white in that Knox Chert.TN formerly CT Visit our store http://stores.arrowheads.com/store.p...m-Trading-Post
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This one I got from my friend Bob Reeves he is the Volunteer State Archeological Society of TN state editor. Bob found this one and was hard pressed to let it go. It may be a Kirk because it is a little bigger than other palmers I have seen but Kirk and Palmer both date earlier than Lecroy in this area.TN formerly CT Visit our store http://stores.arrowheads.com/store.p...m-Trading-Post
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Those are great finds. It's amazing how that black chert shows up in collections from the eastern part of NC. According to many it's not suppose to be there but it is. I don't believe its imported material because it's not found in the piedmont just east of the mountains where Tennessee chert points are found. After the discovery of black chert just off Wrightsville Beach it makes sense. I buy every piece I find when my wife and I travel down east.
VonLast edited by Von; 06-12-2017, 11:17 PM.
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Man I'm loving this thread! I have one really good example and a few more broken examples or rougher examples. When I think of Early Archaic in eastern Tn I think of the Palmer type. I'm not going to ramble to much even though i could go on and on the Palmer type and the ocurence of the Kirk type in General here in Tennesssee.I'm still waiting to see that book dedicated to just the Kirk type alone here in the southeast. I generally think of Kirk and Palmer as one in the same although there is distinguishable differences between small type Kirks and Palmers. Maybe it is as Joe states and one is a knife and one is a dart. There is still much I would like to understand about the Kirk/Palmer phase and how it manifested here and how that varys from other areas were small type Kirks appear, because in my observations our area is unique in that aspect.
Anyways ill share my best example I picked up from a Tennessee collection. This one is more in the Knox grey Chert Spectrum. Seems the further west you travel away from the Smokies towards the Tennessee river the more grey Knox you see opposed to that deep black knox.
Really like those examples you shared Matt, especially that white streaked one. If I ever find a place to go pick.up those cobbles I'm going to be the happiest knapper alive! Btw from what I hear and read your in the right area to do that.
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I have been looking at these quartz ones they seem similar in style to Hardaway to me. The bases are ground smooth across the proximal edge and up right into the notches. All beveled and super serrations on these.TN formerly CT Visit our store http://stores.arrowheads.com/store.p...m-Trading-Post
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Id say your right in your observation Matt, seems to me that in NC (Here in east Tn too) you have this overlap of Kirk, Palmer and Hardaway... I had a point a while back maybe I can find a pic that was from here in east Tn ( Roane co.) that was like a Kirk/Hardaway hibrid. I think in our region those types were definitely intertwined in all combinations (Hardy-Palmer, Kirk -Palmer, Hardy-Kirk) lol. If that makes sense...Josh (Ky/Tn collector)
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