Found by Travis Cobb in early September 2006. Not a perfect point, but like I told Tavis when he found it, I would rather find one like it than a handful of G-10 Archaic points. 1-1/2" wide x 1-1/2" long to the break, this piece was a huge point when they were fluting it over 12,000 years ago!
Double fluted on this side with no problem.
The Clovis craftsman ran into a little problem on the second flute on this side
Hidden within the flint was a small grain of quartz.
Looks like the flute dipped down into the point when it got to the quartz inclusion, taking the end of it right off.
Interesting that the larger flute was the forth one. Coincidence?
This view helps give an idea of how it would look without the big chip missing.
Striking material that probably came from several miles away in the Colorado river gravels. Nice spokeshave seems to have been worked into the base after the point broke. There is little doubt in my mind that this beautiful piece was salvaged straight into the Clovis toolkit after the fluting failure.
This picture but it gives you an idea of some of the uses something like this had to the Clovis people over 12,000 years ago. Looks like a spokeshave, graver and cutting edge may have been added after the fluting failure.
Trav's Clovis is a good example of what you might be lucky enough to find if you hunt high and low for Paleo. It was found associated with the same creek where a world class perfect Clovis was found 40 years ago. Knowing that, we have spent a lot of time searching there, but none looking harder than we did on this day. It was a good thing Travis found his Clovis as Zach and I came up empty handed. This was already a day to remember for us, Trav's find gives us something remarkable to remind the three of us about the whole experience. That's yet another story, but I should mention there are "SNAKES in the Creek!"
WOW! Travis managed to find this Clovis Artifact the very next weekend after I found the "Crain Clovis" in Harris county, yet we were almost a hundred miles away in Wharton county!
Congrats Trav, WTG!
References Cited:
Turner & Hester
“FIELD GUIDE TO STONE ARTIFACTS OF THE TEXAS INDIANS”
Timothy K Perttula
“THE PREHISTORY OF TEXAS”
Mr. Johnny Maduzia
Personal communications
Photos & Text (c) David Crain / Texasarrowheads.com
Double fluted on this side with no problem.
The Clovis craftsman ran into a little problem on the second flute on this side
Hidden within the flint was a small grain of quartz.
Looks like the flute dipped down into the point when it got to the quartz inclusion, taking the end of it right off.
Interesting that the larger flute was the forth one. Coincidence?
This view helps give an idea of how it would look without the big chip missing.
Striking material that probably came from several miles away in the Colorado river gravels. Nice spokeshave seems to have been worked into the base after the point broke. There is little doubt in my mind that this beautiful piece was salvaged straight into the Clovis toolkit after the fluting failure.
This picture but it gives you an idea of some of the uses something like this had to the Clovis people over 12,000 years ago. Looks like a spokeshave, graver and cutting edge may have been added after the fluting failure.
Trav's Clovis is a good example of what you might be lucky enough to find if you hunt high and low for Paleo. It was found associated with the same creek where a world class perfect Clovis was found 40 years ago. Knowing that, we have spent a lot of time searching there, but none looking harder than we did on this day. It was a good thing Travis found his Clovis as Zach and I came up empty handed. This was already a day to remember for us, Trav's find gives us something remarkable to remind the three of us about the whole experience. That's yet another story, but I should mention there are "SNAKES in the Creek!"
WOW! Travis managed to find this Clovis Artifact the very next weekend after I found the "Crain Clovis" in Harris county, yet we were almost a hundred miles away in Wharton county!
Congrats Trav, WTG!
References Cited:
Turner & Hester
“FIELD GUIDE TO STONE ARTIFACTS OF THE TEXAS INDIANS”
Timothy K Perttula
“THE PREHISTORY OF TEXAS”
Mr. Johnny Maduzia
Personal communications
Photos & Text (c) David Crain / Texasarrowheads.com