The "Woodstock" Texas Dig Lithics

[mark adams]

The famous "Woodstock" of Texas dig that over 100 collectors participated in will be remembered forever.
These artifacts were rescued by me and my son over a 10 day period.
I'm sure this represents only a small amount of what was actually saved from destruction by everyone that was involved in the salvage project.
Please post all your pics here so that the archaeological context of the site can be seen together and better understood.
These are samples of the different lithic materials I collected from the site, most was of the Georgetown variety chert / flint and many were very beautiful translucent Edwards materials.

[mark adams]

Hammer Stones and preforms collected from the site.
The white hammer stone has a finger hold dimpled on each side that fits your hand perfect and no doubt was used to knapp a lot of the lithics from this camp.

[mark adams]

Some of the different projectile point types from the site. This camp had a large amount of Pedernales points and drills. There were also many biface knives that were very thin and finely knapped. I seen a couple of broken Corner Tangs, a Mid Back Tang, Base Tang Knives.
Sadly most of the finner blades were snapped in half or had some degree of damage.

[mark adams]

Out of the thousand of lithic flakes that I collected from the site there was only about 10 of the flakes that showed any rework on the edges for tools / scrapers.
This one was particularly interesting as it was worked into a small spokeshave that I think would have been the perfect size for scraping / shaping wood for arrow shaft manufacturing.

[Ryno]

Glad you pulled some good ones out
of that hotel. That Georgetown basetang is really beautiful!
Neat little spokeshave

[longtimefree]

way to go mark, so what were the night like? frantic diggin ? wading through stuff already piled up? its hard to believe only a few of those flakes had any sign of touch up, were there middens or old fires unearthed , any odd ball out of place stuff found? man i wish i could of been there ,

[mark adams]

These were found by my friend and arrowheadology member one night.
The broken biface blades were found staked together.
The Angustura was found in one of the deep layers of the camp about 2 feet below the transition layer in the red sandy soil.

[mark adams]

Ryno, That Base Tang is nice. It was found by Clay Wright but I managed somehow to bring it back to East Texas.
A good friend of mine and member found some of the points in the frame with the Base Tang and he gifted them to me to keep the site materials together. Thanks again TA.

[Indianasmith]

Thaks for posting! Can't wait to see the next pics! Wish I could have been there!

[joshuaream]

Neat to see the amount of flakes and tools that came out, that camp was certainly well used for thousands of years.

It was good of 007 to put the word out, not many people would have shared and conserved that number of relics by doing that. I have to admit I've hunted construction sites with a short window of opportunity and never shared the information with other collectors. I probably got to cherry pick some areas better, but I didn't make a dent in the number of relics that were destroyed or lost under the apartment buildings.