Finds in Delaware

[uwe]

 
Our stoneage devides in "Old" (Altsteinzeit) "Middle" (Mittelsteinzeit) and "Young" (Jungsteinzeit).
Your stoneage seems to be younger, but when I look at the artifacts it suits into the middle.
Sure plowed farmland is good area to find artifacts. But its often cracked depending on the farmers tools.
Regards uwe

[Pat B]

Uwe, most of my artifact hunting was when I lived in coastal South Carolina. No natural rock there so anything you found was an artifact.    Cruising the estuaries and looking for cut banks in the cedar hammocks(small islands) where shell rings were washing into the water.
 One of our favorite sites was where a 60acre spot that was leveled for a factory. Fortunately the factory didn't get built but the site was a honey hole for stone and pottery artifacts. We have lots of pottery shards with many different imprinted designs as well as stone blades and points. One friend found an 8" obsidian blade...at least 2000 miles from it's source.

[snedeker]

Grinding stones are common all over the eastern US and began to be made around 6,000 BC.


I'm just finally now writing the proposal for what to do with all this.

Dave

[uwe]

This would be the time between "Old" and "Young" stoneage in Europe. I think even the beginning of these stonetools here.

[Jude]

Just googled argillite.  Apparently, it's a relatively common material.  What makes the Haida variety special is the grade and color.  The Solutrean theory is controversial, in part because there is no evidence of a maritime culture from that period.  The trouble is, if that evidence exists, it's several miles off the coast, due to sea level changes.