overstreet guide

[mullet]

 Shannon, you would crap your pants at some old places around here. A site called Buddy Lake near here is pot mocked with chest deep or deeper  holes dug. When you walk into the woods it looks like it had a Bombing mission called in. And what's bad is you keep finding nic, Coral, heat treated Chips that deep. You can't stop digging.

[FlintWalker]

I've helped dig several graves before. It takes a half dozen men, half a day to dig a hole big enough to bury a man in around here.
 Digging is work, no matter where it is. But I think I could kick a hole out big enough to bury a horse in half a day down there.   It's WAY different than it is here. 

[arappaho]

Have to agree with you guys about Overstreet. It is what it is.

Tim, check out this link for more info about Minnesota projectile typology.

http://www.tcinternet.net/users/cbailey/lithic1.html

[DanaM]

Tim the problem we have as far as finding points is we were covered in glaciers for thousands of years and stuff has been buried deep and ground up on
top of the fact that there is very little knappable stone in the region. There are a few sites in Michigan for chert, Wisconsin has Hixton silified sandstone.
From what I've read about the UP is that most of the really old points found up here are quartzite and there few and far between.
I also have never found a point

[sailordad]

yup some folks are luckier than others when it comes to finding artifacts
shannon and jc are two of them folks.

if i make it to florida next month jeff,we should get together for a little while and maye you could help me find my first artifact point 

thanks for the link arappaho,i'm gona tossthat if my fav's

dana, yup our region sucks.

i think i am going to get pics of the ones my uncle has and submit them to overstreet

[stickbender]

     Boy, Eddie, you never offered to show "ME" Ricks collection......


                                                                     Wayane

[mullet]

 Ricks never home, Wayne. He'll be at the Dade City Knap-In

[sailordad]

well here is what may or may not be,you guys tell me,my first found artifact.
i found this in an outcropping of gravel on the side of a hill by the swamp that i have been culling osier.
you can see what appears to be flakes that have been knocked off.on the bottom edge there is a slight notch that actually fits
the average diameter of the osier in the swamp area.it seems to fit the hand quit well also.
im thinking it may be a scraper of some sort,or its just a busted rock 
it looks to be just the average type of rock that we have in these parts.real grainy and somewhat granite like
heres the pics,let me know if its just a busted rock that i should just toss or if its something i should keep around.







thanks for peeking

[FlintWalker]

 Looks like a s#x stone to me

[leapingbare]

I'm with shanon.. looks like a indian s#x stone.

[StevenT]

I also bought the Overstreet guide 11th Edition not quite two weeks ago from Amazon. It was $21 plus $4 shipping. I bought it to help with names and to help identify point shapes.

[mullet]

 Looks like s#x stone to me also.

[StevenT]

OK, I feel like you guys are waiting for someone to send on a snipe hunt.... so I am going to ask.... what is a s#x stone?

[DanaM]

How old are ya Steven Definately a s#x stone Tim

[leapingbare]

Its a F@#Kn rock.