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[Dennis]

This was found one driveway west of the apple hill California site in there garden. Made of basalt the stem is ground. What is the type on this ?

[arrow719]

Interesting point, it's a dead ringer for a Lake Mojave. But I believe there's some much later types in the Sierras that are Mojave look a likes. But I don't think those later types have ground bases. So it very well could be a Mojave.

[questor]

I'm wondering if Cougar Mtn influence could be a consideration on this one?

[Steve Valentine]

I was thinking along the same lines as arrow. My first thought was a Lake Mojave Point.

[arrow719]

Originally Posted by questor

I'm wondering if Cougar Mtn influence could be a consideration on this one?

I wouldn't rule that out. What's most interesting to me about this point if it is paleo is where it was found. Maybe the Sierras were an exception but throughout most of the Great Basin region paleo finds are extremely rare in the mountains. In the G.B. region paleo is nearly always found in valley bottoms. But that sure does look like a paleo point to me. Sometimes later cultures carried older points they found to their camps in the mountains. There is a later type found in the Sierras that really looks paleo. It was Mojave that brought that to my attention awhile back. But I can't remember the name of that later look alike.

[silver lake]

Seems a bit Parmanish to me. Not use to seeing LMs with a base that long.

[Dennis]

Thanks for everyone's input. Here's the story behind this point a neighbor rode up on a lawn tractor to show us his finds off his property . He had a handful of points in a plastic container the first thing I noticed was the size of the artifacts were a lot larger than what were finding and he said he had a cigar box full somewhere that he wanted to show us. I had been looking threw the twelfth Edition of the Overstreet guide and thought that point might be a lake mojave . I have one that's similar but is so damaged i'm not sure.

[Sierratracker]

That is surely a first stage Lake Mojave. Vandenburgs and Ana Nuevos would not be ground like this one. I have found Great Basin stemmed paleos (Mojaves and Silver Lakes) at sites as high as 6,000 ft elevation on the east side of the Sierras. Too bad this one got run over and dinged the tip off. Most LM's have short blades because they have been resharpened so often. This one was not. Very rare early stage point of this type.