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Here are pics of a very pretty palm sized blade from the Huzzah river near Cherryville MO. This is not the best blade I ever found , but really eye catching lithic with extremely tight grain. Any guesses on age period ? Also pic of the Huzzah creek near find site. Thanks for a look , Louvier
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That is a very nice looking piece of river candy!
I know they aren't all old ones, but I still tend to think many of those are paleo or early archaic.Hong Kong, but from Indiana/Florida -
That shoreline looks like a dream come true ! I’d be haunting that area !Lubbock County TxComment
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Do you just walk the edges or do you look in the water to? It’s a nice looking spot I bet you have found plenty there.NW Georgia,Comment
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I hear the angels singing...
Nice piece!!!"The education of a man is never completed until he dies." Robert E. LeeComment
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Thanks for sharingSouth DakotaComment
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WOW, super find.SE IAComment
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Very niceComment
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Looks like it’s made off a flake . Everyone here taught me flake tool technology is very old .Comment
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Hi Tam , I am not familiar with flake technology. Can you explain what it is , please?Comment
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I think Tam is referring to blade core technology. It is a form of knapping that uses something like a punch and a knapper would apply force with their body downward onto a core and it would produce long flakes. You can look up blade core knapping on YouTube and see how it is done. I don't think that piece was produced with that technique though. In the third pic, at the top of the piece, you can see a bulb of percussion where it was struck from the parent stone. That tells us it was struck with direct percussion with a hammerstone. It does look to be an older piece though, probably early archaic.Stagger Lee/ SE MissouriComment
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Nice find, Joe. That is a very pretty piece and that creek looks like a great hunting spot.Stagger Lee/ SE MissouriComment
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Broken Arrow , Thanks for the info on core knapping. I watched some vids on YouTube about it and learned a lot. Joe LouvierComment
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