Most of these were found in coastal South Carolina near Hilton Head, Is. There is no natural stone in that area so all the lithics came from elsewhere, either as raw materials or probably preforms. We even found obsidian blade points. Some were found at a leveled 60 acres on a bluff above the Colleton River and some from a river swamp hunting club. The whelk shells were used as drills. The center column had a natural spiral to it. The mummified rat I found in a bag of grass seed and the false teeth I found in an old junk pile along my driveway.
There are cedar hummocks throughout the salt marsh areas that have shell rings on them and as the river cuts away at the banks the shell rings are exposed. I never found points near the shell rings but lots of potters shards, some bone needles and antler tine pressure flakers (or oyster knives
). We always found oyster shells, muscle shells and clam shells along with the whelks as part of these rings. I believe they were basically dump areas. The Natives would sit around eating shell fish and throwing the shells, along with other "trash" over their shoulders. Pat
ps. The small pot, a prized possession, was given to me by my Aunt Sue. When she was in high school her boy friend gave it to her. If she were still alive she would be near 90. Sue said it came from near the Neches River in Texas.
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