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 | Summer 2007 finds from our mesa-top ranch near Snowflake AZ, once an epicenter of Ancestral Puebloan culture and a much earlier campground of migratory Paleo hunters. Our finds include dozens of Paleo-points pre-dating 1000 CE --- many attributed to 3000-7000 BCE. Tool materials: petrified wood, flint and basalt. Pottery sherds: c. 1200 CE, Snowflake Black-on-White style. Post-monsoon finds include: thumb knives, thumb scrapers, chopper, broken half of traded stone axe, small all-purpose tool, preform point (white) and tiny pigment? grinding stone. Two tools have small curved "spurs" for burin or graving work. Two scrapers have intentional notches for smoothing or severing sinew. |
| | Red-Tip Petrified Wood Handtools --
Shown left:
1. Arizona Petrified Wood hand celt with knife edge,red scraper edge along bottom and purposefully selected red-pointed tip. Probable c. 1100 CE. Location: our property east of Snowflake AZ USA. 1998.
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2. Utah Petrified Wood paleo-style hand axe with red tip point, purposefully chosen. Very early? Suggested c.3000 - 7000 BCE.
Location: found with permission on private land near Lost Hills, California. 1999. I would love to learn the archaeological details about this Big Dog! |  |
|  | Reverse "working" side. Red tips and red scraper edge clearly visible. |
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