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Post by geodepat on May 6, 2009 20:30:42 GMT -5
....and newbys arrive. I know some of you have seen this picture before, like 3 years ago but sometimes a girl's just gotta do a little bragging. There's an artifact hunters get together this weekend in Bainbridge Ga. and Donnie and I are thinking about jumping in the truck and cruising up there for a couple of hours. Think I'll take this point with me and see what some of the pros think of it. ;D Pat   |
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Post by amythestguy on May 6, 2009 20:46:03 GMT -5
Wow I haven't seen that pic before. I must say bragging is justified in this case. That sucker is huge. Good find!!!!
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Post by geodepat on May 6, 2009 21:27:56 GMT -5
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Post by lee on May 6, 2009 21:36:51 GMT -5
That is quite an artifact. I have found a few spear points in my time; but that rivals anything I have found. Congratulations and may you be so lucky as to find another one just like it soon.
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Post by amythestguy on May 6, 2009 22:13:21 GMT -5
I got to looking at that point again and man I can't figure out what it was used for...maybe killing one of those giant ground sloths or something..dang whatever it was, it was big. hey next time I see ya I will see if I can fit the whole thing in my mouth LOL  ;D |
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Post by saskrock on May 7, 2009 0:21:33 GMT -5
That is one great find, I would be showing it off too.
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Post by arappaho on May 7, 2009 21:52:36 GMT -5
I remember you showing that to me at the Round-Up last year, Pat.
That's one classic beauty!
The show sounds like it would be a good one. Hope y'all make it to it.
Amguy, archaeologist are still trying to figure out why they would make
them that big at that time. The big game like mammoth and giant sloths
were long since extinct by then. Might just be the old, "whoever's got the
biggest one is the baddest one" mentality.
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Post by geodepat on May 7, 2009 22:10:03 GMT -5
The area where I found this is the Santa Fe river in Florida at Ginny Springs. Rick does a fossil trip there a couple times a year and we have found all kinds of very old fossils. I have a tapar tooth as well as horse and I believe camel...that is weird..Rick has bunches of stuff like turtle scoots and sharks teeth. You can check out the trip reports under the Indy Jones trip reports listed as Ginny Springs. There are lots of photos. www.wncrocks.com/indyjonesfieldtripsginnie9-06-1.htm |
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Post by auriculatis65 on May 8, 2009 11:22:07 GMT -5
That is one big spear it was definetely big enough to kill anything, probably the chiefs spear!!
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Post by botanyme on May 8, 2009 12:55:17 GMT -5
sweet! have fun at the artifact gig. see you soon.
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Post by arappaho on May 10, 2009 20:25:29 GMT -5
I thought Pat might post a report about what she found out
about this point at the show, but if you would like to identify it,
you could use the chart that rickb posted for the club in his
"Projectile Point Traditions" thread a little further down.
Pat's point is such a perfect example of this type it should be
pretty easy to identify.
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Post by geodepat on May 10, 2009 22:37:10 GMT -5
The trip up there started out very foggy less than an 1/8 mile visability in places and it seemed like it took forever. We had breakfast at a place called Betty's all you can eat breakfast bar with all kinds of meats even deer sausage. We filled our bellies and headed to the show. The room was about the size of a basketball gym with bleachers. The whole room was filled with tables full of nicely dispayed pieces from all over the place. Some very rare and some boxes on the floors with 50 cent broken parts. Some dealers were selling diplay boxes, Donnie bought a few of these. I found the head identifyer guy and showed him what I had. He said it was a 6,000 year old Hamilton. I had a couple other points with me and he was taking pictures of mine and asking the locations found. I think this was for his book he was writting. They had lots of different books for sale as well as every kind of point you could imagine. I traded one of my points for a really nice sharks tooth.  The one on the right. I found a few pieces of fossil coral and a few odd pieces that I bought,  The point I traded for the shark teeth was just like the one in the middle.  Later we drove over to the river park to take in the towns biggest rummage sale and watch the kids on the ponies and the rock wall and the mechanical bull. They were having a duck race and for five dollors you could buy a duck and enter the contest. The firetruck dumped the 5,000 duck into the river off of the ladder boom and the first duck to cross the finish line won $5,000.00 My dang duck was a mallard and imediately got up and flew north. The finish line was south of the bridge in front of the chamber of commerce. By now there are probubly rubber ducks entering the gulf of mexico. We had a good time and when we got back to Donnie's place I proceeded to hunt through all the flat rate boxes that he shipped back from Nevada. bunches and bunches of tourqois fresh from the mines. If you want any he will be bringin some to the roundup. So that's the report. Sorry didn't take pictures of the events just not enough time to drag camera around. Pat ;D |
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Post by amythestguy on May 10, 2009 22:48:23 GMT -5
I was hoping for a picture of Betty's all-you-can-eat-breakfast bar. Damn oh well maybe next time. Nice write up, Pat. That top left piece in the coral pic is great
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Post by arappaho on May 11, 2009 12:38:05 GMT -5
Thanks for the report, Pat! Sounds like you had a full but
really good day. Sorry your duck didn't want to be in the race. ;D
I'm not familiar with the name Hamilton for that type of point and
he dates it about 1000 years earlier than I was thinking. That
date puts it right at the beginning of the Late Archaic period so
we're still in the same ballpark. Good job! and thanks again for
the report.
Joe
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Post by JohnD on May 11, 2009 14:16:05 GMT -5
Pat, is that the one you picked up next to me when we were wading in the shallow water along the edge of the creek and the others were diving?
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Post by geodepat on May 11, 2009 19:30:57 GMT -5
Yes John, that is the same point. It's the one that you had to be thinking this girl is having a heart attack, remember I kept looking at it and then clutching it to my chest and saying " Oh my god " over and over again. I also remember on that trip that you and I had a blast with that pink projectile point that you found. I don't think Tina will ever get over that find. And to think you just tossed it back into the spring....it brings tears to my eyes thinking about that. ROFLOL Pat
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You know only a friend would say that to you..LOL 
