All awesome finds! Those coal artifacts are fantastic (I've never seen those).
In my opinion, they look like tools used to maintain piercings of the ears, nose, and/or lips. You know, everyday items that take the place of really long and fancy things that are worn on special occasions. Maybe they were also used in flintknapping but I don't see it.
Thank you, they were found in WV which is coal rich so they used what was available for jewelry.
I believe it is possible they used antler for knapping and jewelry. Folks still do today. It does seem interesting that they would highly poilish an antler for knaping, so I do think they were used for both.
Are those items with the quarter antler?
Yes the two pegs are diffidently antler. The smaller rough piece may be bone or antler, but I think antler.
All those are cool. Did you find the antler pieces on the surface. Almost never find antler artifacts on the surface here there is some coal artifacts like that here. I believe it is properly called cannel coal. Are the two large points Sedalia?
All these are surface finds. I had a secret location that was plowed and mussel shells could be seen in a big circle. After a rain I would crawl on hands and knees very slowly and would find small pieces. I am told it was a trash pit. The white point I made to replicate the yellow/brown real point. Just looking at Sedalia points on the web, they seem to all have a squared base which my find does not. Otherwise it does look like a Sedalia.
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