I love tools

[Ron Kelley]

Dylan (OBION) gave me this hammerstone and it has it all: pecked thumb hold, percussion use wear, and abrading use ware.

[SurfaceHunter]

Good on you posting it now I don't have to go dig mine out.

[Cecilia]

I only have a coupla arrowheads that I found (WillJo sent me some of his, tho, so I have met several in real life and not just in books and museums!). But I do have have hammerstones, and I’m gonna post them and some other tools soon, upon my first AH birthday. None of my hammerstones are as pretty(?) as this one, tho. When grow up, wanna be like you, SH, WillJo, Realistone, OldRocks, TomClark, Hal, Tam, Josie, LinnyMan, and all others who’ve gone outta their way to help me!

[realistone]

Seeing this post on tools I tried to get a picture of a display case of just tools. It's hard to get any detail and get all of them in the picture frame.

[realistone]

This shows the one in the middle a little better. It is a little different normal. It is worked on both ends and the side showing

[SurfaceHunter]

Very nice most collectors don't even see the tools cause they are so focused on the points.

[realistone]

Here is photo of a pretty neat Metate found in Arizona. We were prospecting at the time seeing if there was much gold in this area. It is in a wilderness area so I imagine its's still there. It would take a tractor to get it probably. Looks like it is just as it was left by the original users. It was pretty neat seeing it like that

[SurfaceHunter]

Was the grinder sitting in the mortar when you saw it? I bet there is a campsite really close to it

[realistone]

Yes just like the picture shows. It was almost eerie feeling at first. There was pottery shards all over but also trash from somebody that camped there years ago. Probably could have been prospecting also but a long time ago.

[Rio Del Norte]

Here's a unique tool, a double hump double bit uniface scraper/gouger...from the Canadian River TX, Blue Ck area...could be a product of the Antelope culture 1500ybp...and it's
Tecovas!

[SurfaceHunter]

That's different

[Cecilia]

Rio, gonna pm you a pic of something (I think) is similar, and you tell me what you think. I am just a “toddler” hunter (<1yr); I’m afraid my degree of credibility is directly effected by my lack of experience, and I don’t want this guy to be labeled JAR due to his finder‘s ignorance.

[Hal Gorges]

Ok. I’m going to mention a certain type of tool that was first typed on the Brazos River in Texas....Ther’e called Clear Fork Gouges, they come in small 1”top row, medium, pic.bott, 4 th from left, and about 2-1/2”for the larger ones....These are from Southwest Florida.....

[Ron Kelley]

The look like wood working tools.

[Hal Gorges]

Yupp, Ron got it, I think that’s exactly right, like a spokshave.

[Cecilia]

I read about these in my first artifact book, a museum publication from University of Oklahoma.