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320
8-31-10
MACK TUSSINGER'S MAGNIFICENT ECCENTRICS,
Pictures & descriptions of several more of these very complex
eccentrics. Also one example that appears to have been made from a
Clovis point. |
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319
8-31-10
BONE
FISHHOOK (Cast),
Cahokia Mounds site, St. Clair Co. Illinois. |
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318
7-31-10
CRAIG MOUND & ROBERT BELL'S PHOTOGRAPHS,
The Spiro Mound excavation of Craig Mound in the 1930's evoked all
the emotions of man: profit, treasure, law, anger, religion, science
and art. |
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318
7-31-10
MOUND 72 POINT (Cast),
Another example of one the many
different types or styles of arrow points that were found in one of
three caches in Mound 72 on the Cahokia Mounds site in southern
Illinois. |
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317
6-30-10
"ESCORT TO THE UNDERWORLD,"
A very complex Mayan eccentric copied from the original by Dan
Theus. It illustrates a portion of Mayan
mythology that involves the rebirth of the maize god. Crocodile
canoe carries spirit of First Father to place of creation to be
reborn again as the maize god. |
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316
6-30-10
FLUTED POINT MADE OF RAMAH CHERT,
This fluted point was found several years ago in Franklin County,
Vermont. It's made of material that was transported from Labrador at
least 1,100 miles away. |
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315
5-31-10
SANDIA, AMERICA'S PILTDOWN?,
Sandia Cave is most famous for its original 17,000 to 20,000 year
old carbon dates. But it would seem that almost everything about the
site is unreliable. |
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314
5-31-10
CLOVIS PREFORM,
A classic Clovis manufacturing break pattern. Broken during end
thinning stage of manufacture. Found in the lower Clovis horizon on
the Kimmswick mammoth kill site in Missouri. |
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313
4-30-10
DINOSAUR FOSSIL "POOP" POINT,
Two points made by Dan Theus. One is made from agatized dinosaur
coprolite and the other from agatized dinosaur bone. |
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312
4-30-10
SIDE-NOTCHED POINT (Cast),
This point was excavated from Wallace Ruin, Montezuma County,
Colorado. It dates to the Pueblo III, Anasazi era between A.D. 1100
and A.D. 1300. |
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311
3-31-10
THE MAMMOTH IVORY BILLET/BURNISHER FROM
BLACKWATER DRAW, This
ivory tool was discover on the Clovis type site and it represents
one of the rarest forms of Clovis tools. |
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310
3-31-10
CLOVIS POINT (Cast),
One of fourteen large Clovis points discovered during the excavation
of the East Wenatchee Clovis site in central Washington. This point
measures 8 5/8 inches long. |
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309
2-28-10
THE HOLLAND CACHE,
Fourteen points and one drill. The Holland cache represents the type
points from which Holland points are named. They were found in 1966
in a farm field in southeast Iowa. |
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308
2-28-10
SCOTTSBLUFF POINT
(Cast),
From the Horner site excavations. The Horner site is the
representative type site of the Cody Cultural
Complex. |
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307
12-31-09
THE MOUND CITY AND TREMPER MOUND CACHES OF
HOPEWELL EFFIGY PIPES,
The caches were discovered in Ohio in 1846 & 1915 and include
approximately 336 pipes. |
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306
12-31-09
MOUND 72 POINT,
This is one of the more rare styles excavated from mound 72 on the
Cahokia Mounds site, Illinois. |
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305
11-30-09
ENGRAVED HUMAN BONE RATTLES & GORGET,
Two Hopewell rattles from Twin Mounds on the Pinson Mounds site and
an engraved gorget from the Florence Mound in Ohio. |
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304
11-30-09
LATE STAGE CLOVIS BIFACE (Cast),
McKinnis cache, St. Louis County,
Missouri. A late stage Clovis biface from the McKinnis cache showing
edge-to-edge flaking and end thinning. |
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303
10-31-09
THE CACTUS HILL SITE,
A pre-Clovis site in Sussex
County in eastern Virginia. A pre-Clovis level is reported to have
been discovered a Clovis level. Two "early triangular" points are
reported. |
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302
10-31-09
EARLY STAGE CLOVIS BIFACE (Cast),
McKinnis cache, St. Louis County,
Missouri. This biface is an excellent example of edge-to-edge Clovis
technique of flaking. |
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301
9-30-09
END-SCRAPERS MADE FROM BROKEN PROJECTILE
POINTS, The have been
called bunts, blunts, stunners and even end-scrapers. |
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300
9-30-09
MESA SITE POINT (Cast),
One of the best projectile point examples from
the Mesa site, northern Alaska in the Arctic Circle. |
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299
8-31-09
THE LITHIC ARTISTS GUILD,
Pictures of modern lithic art and
a description of the history of the Guild and the "Modern Lithic
Artists Journal." See Steve Allely's San Andreas Fault points! |
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298
8-31-09
GOSHEN POINT (Cast),
This Goshen point was discovered during the excavation the Mill Iron site in Carter County, Montana. |
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297
7-31-09
THE MILL IRON SITE AND GOSHEN POINTS,
The Mill Iron Goshen complex site is a camp meat processing site and
a bone bed. Goshen points are believed to date sometime between
Clovis and Folsom. |
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296
7-31-09
GOSHEN POINT (Cast),
This Goshen point was discovered during the excavation of the bone
bed on the Mill Iron site in Carter County, Montana. |
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295
6-30-09
CATLINITE PIPES AND THE PIPESTONE QUARRY,
The earliest catlinite pipes were made during the Early and Middle
Woodland Period. The Late Mississippian & Historic Periods produced
most catlinite pipes. |
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294
6-30-09
CLOVIS POINT
(Cast),
This is the largest complete Clovis point
found on the Colby mammoth kill site in north central Wyoming. This
point was found by the discoverer of the site. |
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293
5-31-09
BIRDSTONES,
Fantails, popeyes, short body and bust type birdstones from sites
east of the Mississippi River. Birdstones date from the Late Archaic
to the Early Woodland periods. |
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292
5-31-09
STEMMED ARROW POINT (Cast),
Neolithic point found on the Swiss Lake Dweller site of Auvernier on
Lake Neuchatel in western Switzerland. |
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291
4-30-09
SWISS LAKE DWELLER SITES,
These Neolithic and Bronze Age sites are known for their
extraordinary preservation of organic materials. Especially stone
tools that still retain their handles and hafting elements. |
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290
4-30-09
A SMALL CARVED BIFACE FROM NORTHERN PERU
(Cast),
This small
bifacially flaked and carved human biface was collected in
northwestern Peru. It's believed to belong to the Chimu culture. |
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289
3-31-09
FISHHOOKS OF NORTH AMERICA & AROUND THE
WORLD, Pictures
of fishhooks made of deer antler & bone, turkey bone, human bone,
shell, stone, wood and bronze. Stages of manufacture, etc. |
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288
3-31-09
EDEN POINT (Cast),
An excellent example of an Eden point from the Finley site, the Eden
type site. |
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287
2-28-09
PIERCED STAFFS,
Pierced staff is a general term for antler, bone and ivory arrow and
spear straighteners from the Upper Paleolithic period in Europe and
Eskimo & the Murray Springs bone "wrench." |
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286
2-28-09
BONE FISHHOOK (Cast),
This Mississippian culture bone fishhook was found during the
excavation of the stockade wall on the Cahokia Mounds State Historic
Site. |
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285
1-31-09
THE SNYDERS SITE,
A Middle Woodland Hopewell site in Calhoun County, Illinois. The
first excavations there by Walter Wadlow in 1940. One of the most
skillfully flaked artifacts, a Ross point, found there. |
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284
1-31-09
CLOVIS POINT (Cast),
This Clovis point was found in
1868 in union County, Illinois. It's made of sugar Quartz that may
be Hixton from Wisconsin. |
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283
12-31-08
WALRUS IVORY HARPOON IMBEDDED IN A BOWHEAD
WHALEBONE, An ancient
ivory harpoon was found deeply imbedded in a bone from a bowhead
whale's flipper. Bering Sea. |
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282
12-31-08
CLOVIS POINT
(Cast), This
Clovis point was found a short distance away from a mammoth rib
during the 1975 excavation of the Colby mammoth kill site in north
central Wyoming. |
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281
11-30-08
NOTE: The lab is in much
better shape now & more organized.
(The image at right is a
picture of my cat. 2008) Pete
Bostrom |
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280
10-31-08
NOTE: I will try to
resume the sale of casts around the middle of November.
(Picture at right shows
myself looking at several Bigfoot casts that are copies of originals
that were made by
Anthropologist Grover Krantz, PhD., 1992) Pete
Bostrom |
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279
9-30-08
NOTE: I'm still
reorganizing the lab---painting, rebuilding tables, remodeling new
space, etc. This will probably take most of October.
(Picture at right shows
myself backpacking in the high mountains of British Columbia in
1966) Pete
Bostrom |
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278
8-31-08
POINTS & TOOLS PRODUCED FROM ONE 14LB
BURLINGTON CHERT NODULE,
An experimental archaeology
project by Larry Kinsella for the Missouri Archaeology Month poster. |
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277
8-31-08
EDEN POINT (Cast),
Found on the Eden type site on
the Finley site near Eden Wyoming. Finley is a bison kill site and
this point as a small impact fracture on the point. |
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276
7-31-08
GRAVERS,
Single and multi-spurred gravers
from six different Clovis and Early Early Archaic sites are
illustrated and described. |
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275
7-31-08
MOUND 72 POINT, (Cast),
An example of one of 107 similar
points found together in a cache in Mound 72 on the Cahokia Mounds
site, in Madison and St. Clair Counties, Illinois. |
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274
6-30-08
HAFTED UNGROOVED AXES,
Examples of hafted axes from Europe, Arian Jaya
and North America. |
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273
6-30-08
STEMMED POINT, (Cast),
Bronze Age point from northern
Afghanistan. |
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272
5-31-08
ACHEULEAN HANDAXES,
Examples of handaxes from four
different countries, spanning a range of time from 600,000 to
100,000 years. Kalambo Falls, Zambia, St. Acheul & Abbeville,
France, etc. |
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271
5-31-08
KIMBERLY POINT, (Cast),
Cast of a Kimberly point from
northwestern Australia, made of gray
quartzite. |
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270
4-30-08
THE FRANKE PIPE,
The Franke pipe is a Cahokia
style bird effigy pipe that might relate to the falcon warrior or
falcon impersonator iconography within the Mississippian culture. |
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269
4-30-08
LATE STAGE CUMBERLAND POINT PREFORM, (Cast),
One of
the best examples of a late stage Cumberland point preform. One side
is fluted. Fluting caused it to break. Found in Dickson Co.,
Tennessee. |
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268
3-31-08
A SMALL NEGATIVE PAINTED CUP,
Found on or near the Cahokia Mounds site. The only complete negative
painted ceramic vessel reported from the area. Edge of the cup
measures less than 1 mm thick. |
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267
3-31-08
DIHEDRAL BURIN,
(Cast),
This Upper Paleolithic Aurignacian Period Dihedral Burin was found on the Termo-Pialat
site in southern France. |
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266
2-29-08
DALTON TOOLS,
Olive Branch site, Alexander County, Illinois.
Examples of end-scrapers, side-scrapers, denticulates, gravers,
awls, drills, abraders, anvil stones and hammer stones. |
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265
2-29-08
HOLLAND POINT,
(Cast),
Cooper
County, Missouri. Well done diagonal oblique pressure flaking. |
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264
1-31-08
DUCK RIVER CACHE,
Humphreys County Tennessee. Forty-six "ceremonial" bifaces
discovered by farm laborers in 1894 in a cultivated field. One
"sword" measures 28 inches (71.1 cm) long.
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263
1-31-08
CUMBERLAND POINT, (Cast),
Found near Glasgow, Kentucky. |
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262
12-31-07
SOLUTREAN LAUREL LEAF POINTS,
Plus other examples of Solutrean tools from the Upper Paleolithic
Period, 21,000 to 18,000 years ago in southwestern France. |
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261
12-31-07
EASTERN STYLE "THIN" LONG FLUTED POINT,
(Cast),
This fluted point was found several years ago in
Otsego County, New York by Howard Arndt. Good example of thin long
fluted point from eastern U.S. |
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260
11-30-2007
PERFORATED PEBBLE PENDANTS,
Several examples of some of the earliest jewelry from Illinois. One
example is from the Olive Branch Dalton site. |
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259
11-30-2007
HOHOKAM POINT, (Cast),
Obsidian Hohokam point from south central Arizona in the Phoenix
basin area. |
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258
10-31-2007
CUMBERLAND POINTS,
Several examples from Alabama,
Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois and one from the Dutchess Quarry Cave
#1 site are shown and described. |
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257
10-31-2007
CLOVIS POINT, SHAWNEE-MINISINK SITE, (Cast),
One of two Clovis points found on
a second terrace above the Delaware River in northeastern
Pennsylvania. |
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256
9-30-2007
STATUES MADE OF FLUORITE
CRYSTAL, Four
Mississippian figures are discussed and illustrated, the Anna, Angel
site, Cahokia and the Johnston figures, plus an owl effigy bead. |
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255
9-30-2007
HOLLOW BASE POINT, (Cast),
A fine example of a Hollow Base point from Predynastic Egypt. |
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254
8-31-2007
SLUMP REPAIR ON MONKS MOUND,
A large excavation on the eastern slope of the largest earthen mound
in the western hemisphere to repair an erosion slump. |
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253
8-31-2007
SCOTTSBLUFF POINT, (Cast),
This Scottsbluff point was found
in the 1930's or 40's on the Finley bison kill site in Sweetwater
County, Wyoming. |
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252
8-31-2007
DALTON
POINT CACHE, These 13 Dalton points
are reported to have been found in Scott County, Missouri. |
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251
7-31-2007
PLUMMETS,
These tear-drop shaped objects have been found in large numbers in
California, Florida and the central Mississippi Valley. Were
apparently used as ritual items & food gathering tools. |
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250
7-31-2007
FOLSOM POINT, (Cast),
This Folsom point was found in 1977 in Barry County, Missouri. |
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249
6-30-2007
JAMES HOWELL'S GLASS POINTS,
He uses many different types and
colors of glass that is melted together in a kiln then flaked into
colorful points. |
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248
6-30-2007
FOLSOM POINT, (Cast),
This Folsom point was found in
northern Indiana and is made of Attica chert. |
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247
5-31-2007
GORGETS,
Seven examples of two hole slate and cannel coal gorgets from
Kentucky, Missouri & Ohio. Largest example is approximately eleven
inches long. |
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246
5-31-2007
HOLLAND POINT (Cast),
This point was found in Barry County, Missouri. Holland points
represent one of the many different forms of Dalton points. |
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245
4-30-2007
SHAMAN'S SUCKING TUBES,
From a cache of twelve from the Coal Draw site in Wyoming & a
Glacial Kame canal coal tube pipe from northern Indiana. |
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244
4-30-2007
ST. CHARLES "DOVETAIL POINT (Cast),
This point is made of Hixton silicified sandstone
and was found in Jo Daviess County, Illinois. |
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243
3-31-2007
ROY MILLER'S LITHIC ART & THE FLINT RIDGE
QUARRY, Pictures of some of the most
colorful Flint Ridge flint and pit excavations at Flint Ridge in
eastern Ohio. |
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242
3-31-2007
HOHOKAM POINT (Cast),
A "classic" example of a Hohokam
arrow point from south central, Arizona. |
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241
2-28-2007
POLISHED CHERT LIZARD EFFIGIES,
These mysterious objects have been found in
southern Illinois & eastern Missouri |
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240
2-28-2007
LATE STAGE FOLSOM PREFORM (Cast),
This large Folsom preform was found in two pieces
on a lake shore 4 years apart. ND |
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239
1-31-2007
FLINTKNAPPER DAN THEUS,
He has made some of the largest fully fluted Cumberland points, up
to 9 3/4 inches long. |
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238
1-31-2007
VERY THIN STEMMED ARROW POINT, (Cast)exceptional for it's thin cross section, less
than 1/16 inch (1.3 mm), eastern Saudi Arabia |
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237
12-31-2006
PLAINS INDIAN STONE HEADED WAR CLUBS,
Double pointed, long handled,
stone war clubs, with leather hafting. |
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236
12-31-2006
AGATE BASIN POINT (Cast),
Heavily resharpened example, from
St. Clair County, Illinois. |
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235
11-30-2006
JIM HOPPER'S FLAKE-OVER-GRINDING POINTS. |
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234
11-30-2006
LARGE END-SIDE SCRAPER (Cast),
East Wenatchee Clovis site,
Douglas Co., Washington. Largest uniface tool found on site. |
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233
10-31-2006
CAHOKIA "GEM POINTS," As told by "old time" collectors,
Illinois. |
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232
10-31-2006
CUMBERLAND POINT (Cast), Trinity
Cumberland cache site, KY. |
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231
9-30-2006
CLOVIS POINT (Cast),
Illustrates the Enterline method of fluting, ILL. |
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230
9-30-2006
HAMMERSTONES, History of hammerstones, Olduvai to
present. |
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229
8-31-2006
BARNES
POINT-THEDFORD II SITE (Cast),
Lambton Co Ontario |
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228
8-31-2006
MARINE
SHELL MASK GORGETS,
Arkansas and Illinois. |
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227
7-31-2006
TRINITY
CUMBERLAND POINTS CACHE,
Lewis Co., Kentucky. |
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226
7-31-2006
BONE
FISHHOOK (Cast),
Cahokia Mounds site, St. Clair Co. Illinois. |
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225
6-30-2006
SICKLE
BLADE (Cast),
Egypt, Gerzean Period. |
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224
6-30-2006
CAPTAIN
JEFF GOWER FLINTNAPPING IN IRAQ. |
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223
5-31-2006
SHORT
NOSE BONE GOD MASK (Cast),
St. Clair Co. Illinois. |
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222
5-31-2006
CLOVIS
IN THE NORTHEAST,
Windy
City site, by Michael Gramly |
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221
4-30-2006
SIMPSON
POINT (Cast),
Harney Flats site,
Hillsborough Co., Florida. |
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220
4-30-2006
TANGED
ATERIAN POINTS,
40,000 year old dart points, North Africa |
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219
3-31-2006
TRIBUTE
POINT, (Cast)
One of the most artistic
arrow points, Spiro. |
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218
3-31-2006
RAMEY
KNIVES,
Large Mississippian period Cahokia culture knives. |
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217
2-28-2006
GEORGE
EKLUND'S NODULAR ART FORMS,
Modern art. |
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216
2-28-2006
TYPE
V DANISH DAGGER, (Cast)
Northern Europe,
Late Neolithic |
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215
1-31-2006
MINIATURE
& TOY STONE ARTIFACTS,
Eskimo,
Archaic, Miss. |
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214
1-31-2006
FLUTED
FOLSOM POINT PREFORM, (Cast)
Lake Ilo site, ND |
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213
12-31-2005
STONE
SPUDS,
Also known as spatulates, ritual axes, ceremonial axes |
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212
12-31-2005
DEBERT-CLOVIS
POINT,
Oxford Co., Maine, Deep concave base. |
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211
11-30-2005
CLOVIS
POINT, Found
1975, Fairfax Circle, VA, Green Normanskill chert |
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210
11-30-2005
SIMPLE
CUMBERLAND FLUTING TECHNIQUE
"Swoose" |
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209
10-31-2005
ETLEY
POINTS,
The
longest notched point type in Illinois & Missouri. |
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208
10-31-2005
UN-FLUTED
FOLSOM PREFORM,
(Cast)
Lake Ilo site, ND |
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207
9-30-2005
GOD
MASKS Legend
of He-Who-Wears-Human-Heads-As-Earrings |
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206
9-30-2005
LATE-STAGE
CLOVIS PREFORM (Cast)
Thunderbird site, VA |
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205
8-31-2005
CUMBERLAND
GRAVER SIDE-SCRAPER (Cast)
Phil Stratton |
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204
8-31-2005
PHIL
STRATTON CUMBERLAND SITE,
encapsulated in loess KY. |
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203
8-31-2005
CACHE
OF UNNOTCHED GODAR POINTS,
cache
of 14, MO |
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202
8-31-2005
WOODY
BLACKWELL BIFACE (Cast),
A teaching biface. |
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201
7-31-2005
CLOVIS
POINT (Cast),
Lange-Ferguson
mammoth kill site, SD. |
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200
7-31-2005
FRANKE
COLLECTION AUCTIONED,
Southern IL collection. |
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199
6-30-2005
FLUTED
DALTON PREFORMS,
Early & late stage, Olive Branch site |
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198
6-30-2005
FLUTED
DALTON PREFORM (Cast),
Manufacturing break, MO. |
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197
5-31-2005
PAINTED
MARBLE STATUES,
Etowah Mounds site, Georgia. |
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196
5-31-2005
MIDLAND
SITE BONE NEEDLE (Cast),
Winkler Co., TX, 11,000 BP |
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195
4-30-2005
COLLECTORS
CABINETS,
Pictures of old time collector displays. |
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194
4-30-2005
ENGRAVED
"WHEATSTONE" (Cast),
Clovis,
Gault site, Texas. |
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193
3-31-2005
"A
SHORT HISTORY OF FLINTKNAPPING,"
3 million years |
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192
3-31-2005
HEAVILY
RESHARPENED CLOVIS (Cast),
Hoyt site, Oregon. |
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191
2-28-2005
CLOVIS
SPURRED END-SCRAPER, (Cast),
Bostrom site, IL. |
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190
2-28-2005
"BIG
BOY" PIPE FROM SPIRO MOUNDS,
Mississippian
culture. |
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189
1-31-2005
"TWISTED"
MODERN POINTS,
1 pressure & 1 percussion flaked. |
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188
1-31-2005
CACHE
VARIETY THEBES POINTS,
5 Large examples Illinois & IA |
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187
1-31-2005
CLOVIS
GRAVER, (Cast),
Bostrom site, St. Clair
County, Illinois. |
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186
12-31-2004
NEW
CLOVIS CACHE, McKINNIS CACHE,
St. Louis, Co., MO. |
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185
12-31-2004
CLOVIS
CORE BLADE PERFORATOR, (Cast),
Bostrom
site |
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184
11-30-2004
"DEATH'S
HEAD VASES"
Late
Mississippian Culture, AR-MO. |
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183
11-30-2004
BARBED
ANTLER ARROW PT (Cast),
Etowah
Mounds, md C |
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182
10-31-2004
Quartz
Crystal Clovis point,
One
of three from Fenn cache. |
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