toothy stuff

[Hal Gorges]

no.1 is a carved fossil bone canine piece, 1 1/4” whoever found the fossil on the beach only made one..interesting position of the hole..pithalacootie river area,,new port richey pasco co fl....No 2 is from the shell mounds at the mouth of the anclote river,,tarpon springs fl.and is a true pendant with with modifications...no.3 is from the tocobaga village site safety harbor,,pinellas co.fl.,,and has good tip wear,,and was hafted in a long handled ,,,photo,,the rest were found on big island,,,upper tampa bay pinellas co fl.....wooden handles for drilled shark teeth.as illustrated,,,from key Marco Florida, this source is a must specially for Florida collectors

[Lindenmeier-Man]

Very very nice Hal ! Talk to me about the about the pic to the right, abc plz...And then the pic below...

[redrocks]

Really cool Hal...so are these teeth megaladon..or a.mix if diff sharks?

[TJdave]

Thats really neat thanks for sharing that. Looks like white shark/megaladon and tiger shark teeth. I wonder if they used the teeth on sharks they caught differently then the ones they found.

[Olden]

Interesting stuff Harold - do you think the drilled shark teeth were ornaments or used in conjunction with the staffs as tools or weapons? They remind me of the Aztec clubs called 'Macuahuitl' that were lined with prismatic blades: could the teeth be a replacement for the lack of an obsidian?

[TJdave]

Polynesians inserted shark teeth exactly the same as the Aztecs did obsidian.

[Olden]

Evidently this was a thing at least as far north as Cahokia

http://www.lithiccastinglab.com/gallery-pages/2004augustsharksteethpage1.htm

[Hal Gorges]

best I can do on short notice ..phots are from book of course.

[Hal Gorges]

funny you should mention that ...I just had to turn the page .wood!

[Hal Gorges]

last post, tried to hurry...the shark tooth tools were usd exclusively for wood working....photo tooth marks..didn’t have squat for flint ..made up for it with with wood..shell shark teeth ..antler bone and whatever was handy... I can tell you this they didn’t sleep on the ground...gotta go my head is spinning around.

[tomclark]

[Olden]

If a shark knocks, DON'T ANSWER - It's long been known that they are students of Sun Tzu!
“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.” The Art of War..

[Hal Gorges]

Olden,,,Not many collectors make that connection between the flint shark teeth from Cahokia and the other examples of shark teeth tools...never saw that article before thanks a bunch

[Hal Gorges]

p.s. how’d they drill em in south Florida two thousand years ago ,,,no flint there.

[Jethro355]

Aliens!

[Olden]

Lol!

[Jethro355]

Yep.

[eannis6]

Lots of different shark teeth, I have found megalodon teeth before, but have always dreamed of finding one that a Native American made into a pendant