I have never knapped anything like this and never will. I post these for educational purposes only. Most of us have seen points like this but I would like to list a few observations: The points are crudely knapped and yet the corner notches are very fine. Many times the notch is started with a large flake that is then completed with very fine flakes in the middle of that large flake. The materials are exotic. There is no patina. Sometimes the point is unifaced. The base is just as sharp as the blade edge.
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Good post and good timing for the post...The chase is better than the catch...
I'm Frank and I'm from the flatlands of N'Eastern Illinois...
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A few year's back I was at a Gift Shop that had all the boxes of pyrite,turquoise ETC. and also The Arrowheads. These had "drill notches", another method.
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a lot of them have the notches put in with a hand held grinder,thats why they are so narrow
only as wide as the cutting wheel.
in a small town north of me about 25 minutes,there is a gift shop thats been there as long as i can remember
my grandma use to take us there when we were very young,as they lived in the outskirts of the town on a farm and we spent our summers there.
last time i was in there,they had several bowls full of these points,advertised them as "real indian arrow heads"
the only thing that was real indian about them was the fact they were made in india.
some beautiful materials,but definitely not from this continent
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Thanks Rom , totally clueless of Euro lithics well not Lapis and such . Have a hard enough time learning US
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Good post Ron, I struggled to find a good example of these onsite to use as an informative link. This will fix that. I always did want to buy these anytime I was at a giftshop when I was younger lol. They always charged 50 cents to a dollar or more a piece lol so quite the markup, Dang tourist traps!Josh (Ky/Tn collector)
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Those things are made in Khambat India by the thousands and sold ever where in U.S. and I can't believe people have not seen them and recognize them. all I have seen have the dovetail like notch that is crushed in and the area around looks different than any reproduction I have seen. I have seen them on other forms also where people pick them up in fields and post them as real and end results is not usually good when they are told what they are.South East Ga. Twin City
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