Those are awesome decent hand stones. It looks like some of them have oxide staining on them, which could indicate they were used to make paint pigment from iron oxide. You are correct in your assumption about the schist, it would have been ground down the same as the oxide rocks. The sparkling crystals that are contained within it would have been added to paint mixtures to make them more eye catching. It doesn’t necessarily need to go all the way back to the archaic or the Woodland timeframe. Even people as late as the end of the Woodland culture and the beginning of the Mississippiused these stones for processing food and pigment, as well as processing animal hides.
@csluau5913 Thanks for the comment! Along the river, there is a heavy iron seep. It is one of my favorite spots to hunt, very productive. Ceremonies were a huge part of the culture here. There are many mounds and earthworks in the area. Heavy occupation is documented in this area dating as far back as Desoto. He planned on taking slaves, but after assessing the sheer numbers of natives he decided against it.
@ yes indeed. If there is a deposit of iron there, they probably exploited it and dug it out with stone pics. They would’ve been pounded it and ground it down with handheld grindstones on flat natural nether stones. I found a place that is similar in South Carolina right next to a river where a creek meets it. Lots of grindstones. Not that many projectile points, but plenty of grindstones and broken pottery. Dated some of the artifacts to the Mississippi, others, the Woodland, and a few back to the middle archaic. So it was a popular place. It’s a good bet. The Spanish passed through this area as well and I’m pretty sure this particular place I’m referring to was actually visited by them. There has been stuff found by people with metal detectors in the area that they claim was Spanish. I would say that both Fernando De Soto and Juan Pardo met their match with the people that lived along the rivers. A lot of their settlements were fortified, and I heard a story that a female Chiefton or head woman was once kidnapped, but managed to escape, and after that pretty much all the villages put up Palisade walls around them and made sure the Spanish didn’t feel welcome anymore because they just ended up plundering the corn and food that the different tribes had gathered.
I always watch your videos more than once. I’ve found many similar artifacts in a farm field by digging down about a foot or so on top of the clay layer. I know you have said you think most of the stone tools you show are woodland period (?). How do you identify the possible ages? Is there a book you’d recommend? Thanks again!
@jimpeters6440 Thanks for the comment. I can't say for certain that all my finds are Woodland. It's likely that some date back into the Archaic and maybe Paleo. But, most correlate well with an agrarian lifestyle, which was prevalent during the Woodland period. There are so few people doing this. It's hard to find out much about them. C.G. Yeager has some good reads.
You are right. I love hunting these artifacts. Holding them in my hand I feel such a connection to the people using these tools. It’s so hard to find resources except for arrowheads, celts and banded hammer stones.
@nancywoodland3061 Don't see that here. The piece in the video is full of crushed quartz. Common here as far back as about 3 thousand years ago. Before that, fiber was used to strengthen the clay. This came out of the Stallings culture around Augusta Ga. About 5 thousand years ago. It is the oldest known pottery in North America.
Found a stone a perfect diamond shape sides and everything perfectly smooth. It's about inch and a half to two inches tall and same at base anyway you turn. What could it be.
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Thank you for sharing. Great information for someone like myself that's fairly new to hunting..
Very interesting , hello from se Virginia
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@rockshovelbeers I am in Newport News, and have found stones like that while plowing up the garden
@rockshovelbeers worn totally smooth
Thanks, Brent!
Really cool finds.
I agree with your theory on the usage of schist stone.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge
Love your videos!
Hi Brent thanks for sharing
Thank you
Those are awesome decent hand stones. It looks like some of them have oxide staining on them, which could indicate they were used to make paint pigment from iron oxide. You are correct in your assumption about the schist, it would have been ground down the same as the oxide rocks. The sparkling crystals that are contained within it would have been added to paint mixtures to make them more eye catching. It doesn’t necessarily need to go all the way back to the archaic or the Woodland timeframe. Even people as late as the end of the Woodland culture and the beginning of the Mississippiused these stones for processing food and pigment, as well as processing animal hides.
@csluau5913 Thanks for the comment! Along the river, there is a heavy iron seep. It is one of my favorite spots to hunt, very productive. Ceremonies were a huge part of the culture here. There are many mounds and earthworks in the area. Heavy occupation is documented in this area dating as far back as Desoto. He planned on taking slaves, but after assessing the sheer numbers of natives he decided against it.
@ yes indeed. If there is a deposit of iron there, they probably exploited it and dug it out with stone pics. They would’ve been pounded it and ground it down with handheld grindstones on flat natural nether stones. I found a place that is similar in South Carolina right next to a river where a creek meets it. Lots of grindstones. Not that many projectile points, but plenty of grindstones and broken pottery. Dated some of the artifacts to the Mississippi, others, the Woodland, and a few back to the middle archaic. So it was a popular place. It’s a good bet. The Spanish passed through this area as well and I’m pretty sure this particular place I’m referring to was actually visited by them. There has been stuff found by people with metal detectors in the area that they claim was Spanish. I would say that both Fernando
De Soto and Juan Pardo met their match with the people that lived along the rivers. A lot of their settlements were fortified, and I heard a story that a female Chiefton or head woman was once kidnapped, but managed to escape, and after that pretty much all the villages put up Palisade walls around them and made sure the Spanish didn’t feel welcome anymore because they just ended up plundering the corn and food that the different tribes had gathered.
I always watch your videos more than once. I’ve found many similar artifacts in a farm field by digging down about a foot or so on top of the clay layer.
I know you have said you think most of the stone tools you show are woodland period (?). How do you identify the possible ages? Is there a book you’d recommend?
Thanks again!
@jimpeters6440 Thanks for the comment. I can't say for certain that all my finds are Woodland. It's likely that some date back into the Archaic and maybe Paleo. But, most correlate well with an agrarian lifestyle, which was prevalent during the Woodland period. There are so few people doing this. It's hard to find out much about them. C.G. Yeager has some good reads.
You are right. I love hunting these artifacts. Holding them in my hand I feel such a connection to the people using these tools. It’s so hard to find resources except for arrowheads, celts and banded hammer stones.
In AZ we see sparkly schist or mica or? mixed into the pottery.??
@nancywoodland3061 Don't see that here. The piece in the video is full of crushed quartz. Common here as far back as about 3 thousand years ago. Before that, fiber was used to strengthen the clay. This came out of the Stallings culture around Augusta Ga. About 5 thousand years ago. It is the oldest known pottery in North America.
Found a stone a perfect diamond shape sides and everything perfectly smooth. It's about inch and a half to two inches tall and same at base anyway you turn. What could it be.
@shirleynelson2429 It's common here for the natives to have faceted stones into a Dimond shape. I'm not exactly sure why?
You should write a book.
@bloodnthuner maybe I will someday when I can no longer hunt. Thanks for the comment!
I don't think half those are made tools at all
@@standingbear998 ok