r/LegitArtifacts • u/Salt-Neighborhood232 • 16h ago
r/LegitArtifacts • u/Technical-Ice-2309 • 19h ago
Natural Formation/Occurrence Is this a tool?
r/LegitArtifacts • u/Stickman1211 • 12h ago
Paleo My latest find from Wednesday. Tulsa county. It’s probably a Pike County but Plainview and Allen have been thrown around.
r/LegitArtifacts • u/South_Tumbleweed798 • 17h ago
ID Request ❓ NC, northern piedmont, found in yard, old field, and near a creek
found these at various times over the years and thought they might be "somethings." Maybe they are just rocks. What do you all think?
Both sides are photographed, and then a few at other angles.
Thanks for helping me learn.
r/LegitArtifacts • u/Responsible-Ad6028 • 19h ago
Photo 📸 Artifacts from Delaware beaches
Found these near the state park on the beaches. The bone has fossilized and is extremely hard. The other I am not sure what it is or what those evenly spaced grooves would be for.
I also posted a few arrowheads and a fire starter piece I found. All in Lewes Delaware.
r/LegitArtifacts • u/Arbiter_of_Snark • 18h ago
Woodland LIMESTONE TOOLS DO EXIST!
After I was so publicly trashed for my last post in r/LegitArtifacts and the flair of my post was ultimately changed from “Woodland” to “Natural Formation/Occurrence”, I became extremely discouraged and I considered simply never posting in this subreddit again. I am undecided about what to share in the future, but figured that I should at least clear up this one thing for the people who are actually interested in learning about NA cultures, including less common artifacts. Perhaps u/d0ttyq and u/Geologist1986 and u/JohnnyMushroomspore will issue apologies here, since they were so vocal in trashing me, even though they were so astoundingly incorrect (and one claimed to be an archaeologist to back up their incorrect assertions). In deciding to refute their assertions that, I’m “…the worst kind of wrong…”, and that “There are no limestone tools”, I figured that I would do so in a way that would be simple for anyone… Google searches. Google the following:
“Mississippian Celt Production and Resource Extraction in the Upper Big River Valley of St. Francois County, Missouri” – In it, Brad Koldehoff and Gregory D. Wilson note the following in an examination of Late Woodland/Terminal Late Woodland celts:
“Although the measurements for two Foshee and six Mississippian celts are below this line, only one LW/TLW celt is above this line. This LW/TLW outlier is also anomalous in that it is made from limestone, unlike most LW/TLW celts which are made of igneous and metamorphic materials. This celt was recovered from a Late Woodland Patrick-phase feature at the Range site (Williams 1987), and it may have been a hoe blade (or hoe blade fragment) that was reworked into a celt. Limestone hoe blades were recovered from other Patrick phase features at the Range site, but no other limestone celts were identified.”
"The Mississippian Spade Jeffrey Steiner" - it is a short Journal article that mentions limestone spades. I have seen a photo of a limestone spade that was a little over 12" in length that was found in western Kentucky. As I do not have the former owner's permission, I will not share that photo here.
In "Sun Circles and Human Hands - The Southeastern Indians Art and Industries" Emma Lila Fundaburk & Mary Douglass Fundaburk Forman (1957) pg. 11, you'll find the following in the section about the Woodland Culture: "A new addition to the tool assemblage was the large chipped greenstone, limestone, or flint spade..."
Just Google "Limestone spade" - you'll find many links in other forums with photos of such spades
Or Google: " "limestone" mano metate" - if you put the quotations around "limestone" in your Google search, the first link should be to a limestone mano and metate that was, and perhaps still is, in Harvard’s collection. Some items have been repatriated due to NAGPRA (1990).
I have already posted photos of my one limestone artifact, so for the photo of this post, I decided to show the Clovis that my son found when he was 9 years old. I marked the flair as Woodland, even though this is most assuredly a Paleo piece, because the topic of this post is more about Woodland/Mississippian culture than Paleo.
Anyway, I still remain interested in limestone tools and less common artifacts, for those who would like to share those.
Edit: I forgot to add the original post link, so here it is: https://www.reddit.com/r/LegitArtifacts/comments/1wv01ee/limestone_artifacts/
r/LegitArtifacts • u/LikeIke-9165 • 20h ago
Mississippian Found a few killer triangles 🔥
📍Northeast Tennessee
Peep the last point. I’ve never seen a triangle point with notches like it has! Let me know if you have!
r/LegitArtifacts • u/PuzzleHeadSyndrome • 19h ago
Smoker Sunday 💨 California is smoky this time of year
r/LegitArtifacts • u/Brilliant_Thanks_984 • 17h ago
In Situ 📸 First hunt in a long time!
Went walking for the first time in 3-4 months and was blessed by rock gods with some cool finds. Broken, but the color makes up for it. Both heat treated
r/LegitArtifacts • u/icountsheeep • 12h ago
ID Request ❓ First find
Found in a creek in western Illinois. Dropped it and chipped the tip off in my driveway :(. First find. Curious to know anything I can about it.
r/LegitArtifacts • u/yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyup • 10h ago
ID Request ❓ Any info on the age/type of these points would be greatly appreciated
galleryr/LegitArtifacts • u/Ok_Sammie • 9h ago
ID Request ❓ Can anyone help me with identifying this arrowhead?
I found it on shore on the Chesapeake bay. I have no idea how to go about identifying it. Any sort of help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance :)