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 Re: NJ artifacts
 
 4/21/2007 11:39:16 PM
User is offlineBob S.
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Re: NJ artifacts

I'm glad to hear that the weather is nice where you are too. 67 and sunny here. It's been a long time since we have seen that. What you said in regard to grooved axes makes a lot of sense. I never thought of it that way. I'd probably be surprised to find out how many farmers in this area have them. I showed a good sized stone artifact to a farmer one time that I assume was used  to grind nuts, seeds etc. and he said " heck, I've got two of them". Until I found it, I'd never seen one before. I guess I could always get a part time job picking rocks this spring. Then again, maybe I'll stick with hunting. Thank's jp.

 4/22/2007 9:44:50 PM
User is offlinejp
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Re: NJ artifacts
Hey Bob. Do you have some good resource material about your area? Certain artifacts are diagnostic to specific time frames. Grooved axes are one of those artifacts. They were only made during a period known as the Late Archaic. That's not quite right. 3/4 grooved axes were made in that time frame. Before that, in the Middle Archaic, axes first appeared. And the first ones were full grooved. After the late archaic, grooved axes pretty much disappeared and celts seemed to be the tool of choice for chopping functions. Anyhow, I do recommend getting archeological resource material about NY State in general and if, possible, about your specific area. I'll try and post some more axes this week. And thanks for the compliment about my collection.
 4/23/2007 4:04:47 AM
User is offlineBob S.
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Re: NJ artifacts
Hi again jp. I really don't have any material specific to this area, but will look into it. I have found two flint hand axes over the past several years, but they seem to be few and far between here too. Thank's for the info. I learn something new everytime I log on.
 4/23/2007 12:26:23 PM
User is offlinejp
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Re: NJ artifacts
I really like big pieces of flint that have been flaked into tools. Unfortunately, in this particular part of the state very little of that can be found. North Jersey has some similarites in lithic material and tools to some of the stuff you find up in NY State. Here in the central part of the state we seem to have more similarites to artifacts to the south. Anyhow Bob, if you are really into finding artifacts I strongly recommend getting some books, archeological journals etc. The more information you have the better able you are to id your finds, put them in some sort of context, and hopefully find even more stuff because you have a better idea of what you are looking for. The same thing applies to fossils, which your state has a great amount of, just none of the shark teeth that you see on this site.
 4/24/2007 12:37:58 PM
User is offlinejp
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Re: NJ artifacts
Hi Bob - I have a question about one of the artifacts you have pictured. In arrowheads 5, the blade on the left looks very thin and well made. Wondering how big that one is? I've enjoyed looking at the pictures of all of your finds.
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