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Knife river flint #8634970
Yesterday at 10:59 PM
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nate Offline OP
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Found in Mo. It's not complete but would like to know the story how it made it's way here.

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Re: Knife river flint [Re: nate] #8634971
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Otherside

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Re: Knife river flint [Re: nate] #8634981
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Nice looking point. I think that there was a lot more trading between ancient people than we think there was.

Re: Knife river flint [Re: nate] #8634983
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Could have been buried in some one’s back and they traveled there then died

Re: Knife river flint [Re: Woodsloafer72] #8635023
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Originally Posted by Woodsloafer72
Nice looking point. I think that there was a lot more trading between ancient people than we think there was.


Trade networks were massive. Obsidian from the NW is found in sites in Illinois. Macaw feathers from South America are found in the Ohio Valley.


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Re: Knife river flint [Re: nate] #8635086
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K snow is absolutely correct. Illinois Hopewell and Ohio Hopewell have burial mounds containing copper from upper Michigan, shell beads from the gulf of Mexico (oops!), pipe stone from Minnesota, and mica from the Carolinas. The river systems were the Interstates of their day.


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Re: Knife river flint [Re: nate] #8635134
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Because KRF is such a high quality lithic it is not unusual to find artifacts made from it at great distances from its source. This is especially true of artifacts made by Paleoindian cultures. These early cultures were very mobile and long distance transport of high quality lithics was not an uncommon practice. A number of Paleoindian artifacts made of KRF have been found in southern Nebraska at an approximate distance of 500 miles from the primary lithic source.
This image shows mainly archaic pieces from our collection with a couple of paleo fragments in the upper right hand corner.

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Re: Knife river flint [Re: kayak cats] #8635159
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Originally Posted by kayak cats
Because KRF is such a high quality lithic it is not unusual to find artifacts made from it at great distances from its source. This is especially true of artifacts made by Paleoindian cultures. These early cultures were very mobile and long distance transport of high quality lithics was not an uncommon practice. A number of Paleoindian artifacts made of KRF have been found in southern Nebraska at an approximate distance of 500 miles from the primary lithic source.
This image shows mainly archaic pieces from our collection with a couple of paleo fragments in the upper right hand corner.

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Fantastic pieces! Upper right maybe Sottsbluff?


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Re: Knife river flint [Re: coonlove] #8635172
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Most likely an Eden from the Cody Complex.

Re: Knife river flint [Re: nate] #8635176
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The workmanship on paleo pieces always amazes me. Those guys knew what they were doing.


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Re: Knife river flint [Re: nate] #8635181
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How do you know its not root beer flint from.texas?


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