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Old 11-27-2011, 02:20 PM
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Question Far west help!

My moms boyfriend found these when he was a kid.
Just wondering if yall can identify any of them. He's interested in knowing
What he's got. Said many of them came from Nevada. The little white piece is a paleo, broken at the base ,, heavy basal grinding, cool material..
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Old 11-27-2011, 02:49 PM
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Nice pieces. Contact arrow719. He is from out that way and could probably help you ID those.
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Old 11-27-2011, 03:31 PM
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I see some I recognize, but Arrow is your man for Nevada. Too bad we don't have the "tag" feature here, like Facebook lol.
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Old 11-27-2011, 04:14 PM
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Old 11-27-2011, 06:55 PM
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These ones are right up my alley. That's Nevada stuff if I've ever seen it. The serrated scraper is an artifact myself & mojave have discussed on here in the past. They are pretty uncommon. We haven't been able to pin down a date for them because the associated points vary a bit. But my best guess would be about 500 to 2000 years old. The knives with the rounded bases are classic Shoshone Knives. The little triangle arrow points were probably found in association, those are called Cottonwoods. The Shoshone Knives and Cottonwoods are young in age, about 200 to 800 years old. The medium sized to larger sized corner notched points are Elkos, which are very common in Nevada and the Great Basin. But as common as they are it's still hard to find perfect ones. The smaller corner notched arrow points are Eastgates and Rose Springs. Age wise they come right after Elko and right before the Shoshone Knives and Cottonwoods. The white piece will be impossible to know what it was without the base. But depending on thickness it might be a very rare Blackrock Concave Base. If it's on the thicker side it could even possibly be a Clovis. Would need better pics for a better guess. There's another paleo in the bunch too. I wouldn't be surprised if it was found in the same area as the white one. I'm talking about the grayish Stemmed point. I have a couple just like it that I found on paleo sites. I think they either fall in the Great Basin Stemmed Cluster Series somewhere or they may be a variant of Alberta or Windust. There's a couple other stemmed ones in there I'm not sure about but I would guess they are later Archaic types. There's some good stuff in there!
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Old 11-27-2011, 07:43 PM
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As much as I'd like to disagree with Arrow, I can't. Pretty much spot on. A few look like the could be from Texas (bottom center looks a bit Nolan-ish) but most are from Nevada. The scrapers referred to above were posted here in the 4th post down:
Lets see your favorite scraper
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Old 11-28-2011, 07:25 AM
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Arrow, thanks for the info! The white paleo is extremely thin... and I didn't even realize the little grey stemmed was paleo !! Appreciate it
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U are exactly right about that nolan looking point.
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Old 11-28-2011, 07:39 PM
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See, I told you Arrow was the man for the job.
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