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Found all of this in about a hour today, the best day I have had in a while. Check out the quartz one, it looks like a knife.

We supposedly had a storm system coming in but it appears to be heading north of us so yesterday was
absolutely t-shirt weather and I went out for a couple hours and found the following items. The first pics are
the in situ of the point. The two scans really show flaws I can't even see in it and really doesn't even look
like the point. It looks just like the in situ pics, it's a little beauty even if the tip and one ear is chipped off.
The other item is worked on the right side of the first scan. It was pointy enough to have been a tool but
it also looks like it could just be the edge of something larger. Would have been pretty if so:


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Below is the remnants I found out a couple times last week. Nothing great, mostly uglies.
The first one I'm sure was a point, but a dang ugly one. The middle one did have some
workings on the top edge and the second one also looked like a very ugly point from the front
but was pretty smooth on the back. Maybe I was in the village idiot area. I was in an "old"
area with lots of the rough stone chips. My brother-in-law said they were just ugly rocks, but
he's just irritated he's not out here yet to find something better than I did:


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And finally a view of the snow fall in W Virginia where my sister and her husband are working.
They are getting ready to head this way but they may not get out right away because of the 24+ inches
of snow they received. This is the 2nd 24" plus snowfall they've had this year. God, I don't miss it one bit!!!
I do know they most likely will not accept anymore jobs in the winter in cold country. They have
homes in Florida and I think they've seen enough white stuff just this winter to last them a life time.


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The other evening I saw a show about prehistoric Alaska. The spoke about bladelets and their use. They said they were extremely early and many of them would be mounted into the side of sticks or bones for use as knives. As a bladelet would break or come loose another would replace it, extending the life of the tool. They also said bladelets would be mounted along the sides of bone points on spears as well. What are your thoughts and do you think this was the same for OHIO bladelets?

Thanks
Gregory Dush

After the memorial service for my father last Saturday, I really needed the chance to get out. As luck would have it, it was the nicest day in a month. Vinitha and I went to hunt a new location (generously given to us by new friend Mike here from the forum-Mike, I owe you!). We started finding obsidian immediately, and Eventually found quite a few artifacts, though mostly broken and preforms.
Vinitha found these:

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And I found these:
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These are my favorites:
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And the particularly nasty looking point I am officially naming "Jack's point" after my departed dad. Not that he was nasty by any means, but I think He'd like that point.

Got to go digging Sunday but it was still pretty muddy,don't care it doesn't stop me.Found a 3 1/8 inch Perd,a 1 3/4 inch red Frio,a 1 3/4 inch white Hoxie and a Base Tang that has killer material but the tip is broke.