For those who haven't read my intro post, my family has just inherited a very large collection of artifacts, mostly arrowheads and tools. We know very little about classifying these items, but I've been reading this forum and have gotten some good advice on getting started. Everything was just piled into cigar boxes, so we want to sort through everything and see exactly what we have. We homeschool, so we are using this as an impromptu lesson in Florida history! There is a local artifact show coming up that we will be attending, so we hope to learn a lot there too.
We are fairly sure that almost everything was collected in our local area, the Central West Coast of Florida. Some items are written on, dated as early as 1959, and locations are noted. These 3 have no notations, but #3 has a faded sticker on it that is similar to others marked Maximo Point, which is in Pinellas County, I believe.
Now that you have some background, the photos I've attached are all similar and look unfinished to me because they look partially notched at the shaft. Please feel free to correct my terminology! Any info you can pass on would be helpful. What would you classify these as? Should I sort the collection by shape, condition, or not bother? If you could tell me if I should clean them in any way, that would be great too. Sorry if I'm asking for too much in one post, I have a lot of questions and a LOT of artifacts!
Thanks so much!
Susan
We are fairly sure that almost everything was collected in our local area, the Central West Coast of Florida. Some items are written on, dated as early as 1959, and locations are noted. These 3 have no notations, but #3 has a faded sticker on it that is similar to others marked Maximo Point, which is in Pinellas County, I believe.
Now that you have some background, the photos I've attached are all similar and look unfinished to me because they look partially notched at the shaft. Please feel free to correct my terminology! Any info you can pass on would be helpful. What would you classify these as? Should I sort the collection by shape, condition, or not bother? If you could tell me if I should clean them in any way, that would be great too. Sorry if I'm asking for too much in one post, I have a lot of questions and a LOT of artifacts!
Thanks so much!
Susan
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