Any idea on this? I found it across the road from the house about a quarter mile.

Awesome thread

It's likely an anvil and or a nutting stone. Nutting stones are often more dished out. Whatever they hit into it was very hard, so it's more likely an anvil, but could still be used for both.

Keith

Grindstones the two large ones are 85 lbs each

These are mostly pieces I bought.

These are the reason North America no longer has megafauna. Spear Heads and Atlatl Points.



True Arrowheads and Small Atlatl Points. Most of what we call arrowheads were used with an Atlatl. Bow and arrows were late to come to the Americas.



Miscellaneous Artifacts.







Keith

It's always made me wonder, how come the rest of the world (outside the new world) was able to enter the bronze age contemporaneously about 5000 years ago, and then the Iron age.
Yet in this hemisphere, only 500 years ago, the folks were still using the latest technology; stone tools. Even in mesoamerica which had advance civilizations they hadn't figured out metal technology.

I like your grindstones. They are comparatively portable compared to 3 of them I have on my farm. 1 has 11 mortars worn into it and probably weighs over a ton. It's the first artifact I found on my farm. It's hard to miss. The other 2, 1 of which is similar to yours, probably weigh a few hundred pounds. I should dig around them because they would be great places to hide a cache, though my area has few pieces of worked flint.

Keith

Nice collections. Only ones I've found here.

Thank you all . It is truly amazing what men did to feed their families . Now it is mostly just entertainment .

Keith
Very nice collection, I feel like a lot of the big spear head's were multi purpose and were unhafted and used as knife blades as well, thinking they could travel with less hassle.'not sure'
I've got a ton of hammer/ pecking stones and several Mano's I'll try n get a pic.and put up for you.

Crescent, AKA, Lunate. Some were decorative and some were used for some unknown purpose. I think this one was decorative. They are very common in Denmark and Norway. I strongly suspect some of the Scandinavians, that came over, introduced them along with the Clovis Points.



Scrapers/Fleshers



Drills



Keith

Thanks Nate. I have literal tonnage of artifacts, if you count the big pieces I can't move.

I am sure you are right that the big spear heads were multi purpose.

Everyone please feel free to post your artifacts. I enjoy seeing them. There's an incredible amount to learn.

Keith

Here's the bottom side of the longer one, the pic. doesn't do much for it, but there is six nutting holes across it and a grinding depression about 3x6 inches not sure what all it was used for but I guessing some one was very proud of it. What's really amazing is a lot of this stuff was here prior to when Jesus Christ walked this earth. Definitely made to last

Could ya'll give me some information on these points. Time frame, etc. These were found in southeast Texas.

What I find odd and it is kind of hard to see in the pictures, is the center is raised almost as high as the out side of the circles. So it looks like something hollow, tube like was what made the dished out part. It is not just dished out. I am not sure if you noticed that.

Thank you Keith.

Those are very nice finds. I apologize, but I am still a pretty rank amateur. If you post them on:

https://forums.arrowheads.com/

some of the members there can tell you what specific stone they are made of, time period and maybe even tribe.

Keith

I mistakenly though the center was deeper. I've never seen anything like that.

Keith

I'll do that. Thanks for the tip.

I think all the big pieces like that were left in place and probably used for many years and even centuries. They might have flipped it as they wore one side or needed to use it differently.

I suspect my biggest rock, with the 11 mortars, had multiple women sit around it and work at one time, probably chatting the whole while. There's few big rocks like it, around here.

Keith