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effigy · Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 25

I've been taking some pics of my rocks that I've never photographed before. ..Except I couldn't resist re-capturing one of my personal favorites. It's a favorite because of the vast number of different opinions expressed on it. It measures 3.5"

giant-sized images:
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h79/_the-cave_/BonAmi02B.jpg
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h79/_the-cave_/BonAmi01B.jpg

effigy · Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 25

OK, now for some rocks from out west.

bigger:
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h79/_the-cave_/BA3aB.jpg
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h79/_the-cave_/BA3aBB.jpg

other side:
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h79/_the-cave_/BA3bB.jpg

Charlie Hatchett · Joined: 06 Apr 2006 Posts: 898 Location: Austin, Texas

Any idea of context Coop? The pieces definitely appear very old.

I want to say this head also has a bird riding on top??

Bob and Charlie came to visit the site I've been studying this week.

I showed them a midden and they did some initial probing towrds the

surface of the midden. Bob found a fully intact Gower drill and a

Pedernales stem, both within about 30 minutes of probing.

Charlie found a real pretty, curved biface knife....looked kinda corner

tangish.

Their bringing all their equipment next week for a more indepth probe,

before deciding if they want to formally excavate the site.

Bob said he's making a trip up to see you this summer hopefully.

Peace
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effigy · Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 25

more as I have time to process

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h79/_the-cave_/BA9.jpg
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h79/_the-cave_/BA99.jpg

effigy · Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 25

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h79/_the-cave_/BA24.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h79/_the-cave_/BA2424.jpg

effigy · Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 25

DavidCampbell · Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 11:52 am Post subject:

I'm not the most organized person, in fact I live in a world of clutter. These are very impressive examples of what I would expect from the Mojave instead of Iowa. These remind me of the "spoke shaves" that Carter found in San Diego County and which Henry found in the Mojave. Along with what Charlie has been finding down in Central Texas, I think I see the makings of a world class extreme Paleo gallery or two. I have about half a dozen from Joe Brown which fit somewhere in between that I haven't figured out how to put up yet. Hopefully by next Wednesday my son can help me figure out the technical aspects.

This falls right into line with what Virginia Steen-McIntyre and Steve LeMaster recently put up on her Classic Valsequillo site; a 335,000 year old mastodon butcher site in San Diego County with anvil, flakes, Oldowan style choppers and spiral fractures on femurs. I have a feeling that we are in a period analogous to the 1920's when one Paleoindian site led to another in rapid succession. It's like a dam leaking at the seams, a flood of discovery is bound to follow as the old barriers give way. At least that's the feeling I'm getting.
Thanks a bunch for sharing these with us, Coop.
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Charlie Hatchett · Joined: 06 Apr 2006 Posts: 898 Location: Austin, Texas

DavidCampbell · Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 2:28 pm Post subject:

And let us not forget Denison, Texas. Cool

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Charlie Hatchett · Joined: 06 Apr 2006 Posts: 898 Location: Austin, Texas

Charlie Hatchett · Joined: 06 Apr 2006 Posts: 898 Location: Austin, Texas

Some of Alan Day's North American Stone Art:

http://www.daysknob.com
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Charlie Hatchett · Joined: 06 Apr 2006 Posts: 898 Location: Austin, Texas

DavidCampbell · Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 3:42 pm Post subject:

The "Monkey Face" is a manuport I found down on an ammonite laden creek at my wife's family reunion a couple of years ago. I had found a "Moqui's Marble" there previously and I was looking for more when I spied that one. Like the example from Blombos Cave in South Africa, I think this one is entirely natural but odd enough that any ancient Texan would have hung onto it like I did. My inlaws had told me that one of the neighbors had found some human artifacts among the ammonites and other fossils but he was real tight lipped about what he'd found. Ironically, after I had explained to my inlaw the significance and age of the ammonites, another neighbor had gotten fanatical about collecting fossils in that creek which previously had been seen as only fit to dump junk in. Razz

I strongly suspect that the same objects which compel me to pick them up and put them in my pocket are the same ones that compelled my Archaic counterpart to put them in his parfleche too. The same goes for the African examples. In some cases I think an ancient artisan may have helped them out with a graver or drill a bit.
Let's not forget DarmonVing's example from Connecticut either.
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