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Ahnlaashock:
I was hunting for decent material, rolled over a chunk, spotted a crack, and knocked a large plate off.  I was standing there hitting it, when it occurred to me what I was seeing, and what I had done. 
I knocked half the face off an ancient core, that has blade scars side by side, over the entire face, that ran some of them more than eight inches, side by side.  I saved the part I had not destroyed, and the work had to be so long ago that the crack had not formed yet, because every scar ran the full width of the face. 
Anyway, four miles from Mastodon park, someone made serious sized blades off this core, and the blades were big enough to have made Clovis style tools, pretty long. 
Someone tell me how bad I messed up?

Ahnlaashock:
Found in a sassafras grove.  Exactly where I would go if I needed a long straight shaft, capable of flexing without breaking. 
Dr, Morrow says it looks Clovis.  Figures I would finally find something, good, and then I would break it, deliberately, not realizing what I had in my hand. 
I need someone to kick me right about now. 

JW_Halverson:
At this point, you make a blade from the piece you knocked off, put the rest on the shelf.  Take the piece you make out in the woods near where you found the stone and use it. 

Makes you wonder why someone would knock off a bunch of high quality blanks and then just walk away, leaving the rest of the stone.  My theory is that the person that made the blanks probably knew of dozens of sites where he could pick up material....why tote it around from place to place?  Kinda like us buying one tool from Sears and leaving the rest...you can always go back and buy what you need the next time.

Adam:
For what it's worth, you were looking for and found materials just the same as someone in ancient times.  I think it's much better that a knapper like you found it rather than have it be lost during a construction project or something like that.

Mohawk13:
I agree with Adam. What ever you make from this will have a direct connection to the past. Nice find to begin with...

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