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    From Yesterday - fluted on one side - 1.25 " inches in length - made of banded chert with some sort of healed fracture.
    I do not knap - so I don't know - but it seems amazing the maker would have attempted a flute with such a flawed piece of stone....
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  • #2
    That's a showstopping point there just gorgeous!!
    North Carolina

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    • #3
      Maybe it was a impact fracture that didn't split yet. I'd be careful with it. Just for example I washed a point last year and tried to get dirt off it and it fell apart. The ancient dirt was holding it together. Maybe someone has an idea on how to preserve it from cracking in half. It's a beautiful piece
      NW Georgia,

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      • #4
        that does not look like a impact fracture to me.
        it looks like a partially healed natural fracture,you can see the mineral deposits in the fracture.

        modern knappers will work a piece like that just to see if they can keep it in one piece
        the ancients may have tried for the same reason

        to me it looks like (but i am no expert on them) an unfinished folsum type projectile point
        they may not have fluted the other side just for the fear (or maybe it was knowledge on the knappers part) that it would seperate on the fracture
        been there done that more than once

        still a killer find regardless

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        • #5
          Looks like they could have used it as is, with how smooth it is on the “unfluted “ side. It does make you wonder why they used that rock. Maybe the maker was late for the hunt and didn’t have time to make another. It was always be a point that creates thought. Very awesome. Looks Folsom to me.
          South Dakota

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          • #6
            Have you ever found Folsom points at this spot before?
            South Dakota

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            • #7
              Killer Paleo piece. Yes, magical indeed.
              North Carolina

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              • #8
                awesome piece!
                Near the PA/Ohio state line

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                • #9
                  Fantastic find !

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                  • #10
                    That is an amazing find, congratulations!
                    "The education of a man is never completed until he dies." Robert E. Lee

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                    • #11
                      Awesome find! Congratulations.

                      The flaw might have had minerals in it 10,000 or so years ago when it was originally made, and a seam of material eroded out over time. It could have been a fossil, some non-agatized mineral, some slightly more soluble in water, etc.
                      Hong Kong, but from Indiana/Florida

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                      • #12
                        Way cool on that find!
                        Searching the fields of NW Indiana and SW Michigan

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                        • #13
                          Congrats on a sweet find..I believe I would get that cased ASAP....
                          North Central Kentucky

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                          • #14
                            Oh boy....that's what dreams are made of.
                            California

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                            • #15
                              Thanks for your comments,

                              I have previously found Folsom fragments in the area and decided it was worth another try.

                              I have another couple of pieces from yesterday I will share later. One might be a piece of an ultrathin

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