old find

[Badly Bent]

Thought this was interesting. Visited a friend this weekend who has a large and varied collection of things found on the family farm in central Illinois over the years. This one found by his dad in 1936 who found one half on one area of the farm and the other half over 1/4 mile away in another area of the farm in a field on the other side of the timber.
Both pieces together are not much bigger than a thumb nail yet he found them both and was able to match them up.

[cowboy]

That's amazing! Who knows the story of that point.

[Badly Bent]

Yeah Cowboy just looking at it conjured up all kinda ideas about how the two halves ended up where they did in separate places. Can really get ya dreaming.

[TRACY]

Very cool! I envision it was shot into a deer breaking on impact with a bone and top portion  and then the base was discarded upon recovery of the deer. Just a thought

Tracy

[Hardawaypoints]

Very cool find.

I have a few points where I found both halves too.  It helps to save those pieces in jars from the same area.

Jim

[bowmo]

Same thought as Tracy. Cool indeed.

[stickbender]

     Cool!  My thought is that the person who made it, was just putting the finishing touches on it, and it broke!  Hence the two pieces, being picked up, and blessed with the knappers secret lithic words, #$#@!!!!#@$!!! and the broken point dance, complete with foot stomping, and kicking any object near, be it inanimate, or animate, and then the two halves being tossed in different directions, as far as could be thrown, complete with the proper send off of secret lithic words.  !@$#%$##@!!!**&%!!  .  Yep, I can envision that scenario!   In fact I think I can pretty much replicate the words, not in that person's native tongue, but the meanings are the same, and the dance!  Not the point, but the words, and dance, I can do a pretty good approximation, due to much intense study and practice.

                                                        Wayne

[lostarrow]

     Cool!  My thought is that the person who made it, was just putting the finishing touches on it, and it broke!  Hence the two pieces, being picked up, and blessed with the knappers secret lithic words, #$#@!!!!#@$!!! and the broken point dance, complete with foot stomping, and kicking any object near, be it inanimate, or animate, and then the two halves being tossed in different directions, as far as could be thrown, complete with the proper send off of secret lithic words.  !@$#%$##@!!!**&%!!  .  Yep, I can envision that scenario!   In fact I think I can pretty much replicate the words, not in that person's native tongue, but the meanings are the same, and the dance!  Not the point, but the words, and dance, I can do a pretty good approximation, due to much intense study and practice.

                                                        Wayne

 Bwahahahahaha!. If that's the case ,I should be the obect of all kinds of future man's ponderings!

[David_Daugherty]

Very cool find.  Really makes you investigate various ideas on how the point fragments were so far apart. I really like stickbenders verson.  Its very intertaining.  But my first thought was along the same line as Tracy.  Very cool find indeed