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🥳 have you seen this material? This is a polished chert celt. Looks like someone, maybe a Mississippian period kiddo, re...
05/11/2026

🥳 have you seen this material? This is a polished chert celt. Looks like someone, maybe a Mississippian period kiddo, rechipped the lateral margins. MN-FE Deposits and patina on the chipped surfaces indicate the chipping is likely ancient. I love this kind of reworking because it’s possibly an indication of novice knapping.

You can actually see where the haft polish ends on this little Celt from the Stahr collection, Miss County, AR. Also mad...
05/11/2026

You can actually see where the haft polish ends on this little Celt from the Stahr collection, Miss County, AR. Also made on a cobble of chert, like the previous two celts, this one was chipped and then polished. Its exhausted 😩😴

This is also a polished Celt made on a Crowleys Ridge cobble from the Stahr collection, Miss County AR. Note the hafting...
05/11/2026

This is also a polished Celt made on a Crowleys Ridge cobble from the Stahr collection, Miss County AR. Note the hafting polish on the poll end 🥳🥳🥳

Stahr collection, Miss. County, AR. This is the coolest one to me. It’s a classic polished celt made on a cobble of cher...
05/11/2026

Stahr collection, Miss. County, AR. This is the coolest one to me. It’s a classic polished celt made on a cobble of chert most likely from Crowleys Ridge.

Mill creek chert digging tool, spade/hoe. This would have been hafted and it shows nice polish. This is for Greg to know...
05/11/2026

Mill creek chert digging tool, spade/hoe. This would have been hafted and it shows nice polish. This is for Greg to know about, it’s from one of several sites near Manila, AR. Mississippi County. The rest of the pictured tools are all woodworking tools. I’ll photograph each one and post some of them. They are cool as can be 🤠🪵🪾there are adzes and celts but no axes 🪓in this pictured group

And this from the Stahr collection. plz 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 offer up your opinion on this type. I think it may be a jakie. The chert ...
05/10/2026

And this from the Stahr collection. plz 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 offer up your opinion on this type. I think it may be a jakie. The chert is Penters, one of my favorite Arkansas cherts

Found some nifty little Daltons and a Cache River while classifying the Stahr points. I’m not quite done yet, there’s a ...
05/10/2026

Found some nifty little Daltons and a Cache River while classifying the Stahr points. I’m not quite done yet, there’s a lot

This sweet little Celt made of quartzite didn’t make it into the last photo. Whoops 🤠 Stahr collection, Mississippi Coun...
05/09/2026

This sweet little Celt made of quartzite didn’t make it into the last photo. Whoops 🤠 Stahr collection, Mississippi County, AR

Celts, adzes, and chisels for wood working, Stahr coll. Mississippi County, AR
05/09/2026

Celts, adzes, and chisels for wood working, Stahr coll. Mississippi County, AR

I already know this isn’t going to excite the Lithic centric flutophiles out there but I’m excited to receive this donat...
05/09/2026

I already know this isn’t going to excite the Lithic centric flutophiles out there but I’m excited to receive this donation today 🥳 Halee drove all the way to Fayetteville to bring it “home”. Everything I’ll be posting today is from the Stahr collection which was donated a while ago. I’ve organized these pottery sherds into rim pieces at the top, body pieces (sherds) in the middle and the bottom row, on the left side of the bottom row are two Late Woodland period cord marked conical based jar sherds that are from the bottom of the vessel….stay tuned for more of the Stahr collection 🎶🎵📻

Happy Center of the Week and greetings from beautiful NEARk 🥳Suwannee preform from the Norden site in Florida. Same boat...
05/06/2026

Happy Center of the Week and greetings from beautiful NEARk 🥳Suwannee preform from the Norden site in Florida. Same boat shaped outline as Clovis but no flute necessary.

Jim Dunbar recovered the river stained base in 1974. And he and Glen Doran recovered the tip in 200925 cm below the surface from a matrix consisting of shell marl in Test Unit 1. The tip is reported to be from an in situ context and the base was from a secondary (disturbed) context. From Jim’s book “ paleo Indian societies of the coastal southeast” published in 2016 by university press of Florida. A Great Book!

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