Found this in a local creek last Sunday...

[Comatose Sphagetti]

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I've been searching for Indian artifacts washed out in creeks for the past several years.
This is a very nice 4-1/2" long "Cobbs Knife" made from Indiana hornstone chert and it is roughly 8,000 years old.
Fascinating to be the first to see it or touch it after all those years and to wonder what the life and times were like for the person who made it.

[MustLoveBeagles]

1. That's cool

Thanks for posting.

[GoCubsGo]

2. Nice!

It's in really nice shape, too.

Freshly-plowed farm fields near those creeks, rivers, and other water bodies can be a great place to hunt, as well. Just make sure you have permission to go on the land. I have found artifacts in dirt roads, as well.

[Comatose Sphagetti]

4. I walk fields too...

Getting tougher to find anything in fields with all the low/no till farming.
Creeks produce waaaaay less finds but usually the artifacts are in better shape due to lack of implement strikes.

[Nictuku]

8. In my youth...

I was on a hiking/camping trip on the border of New Mexico/Arizona in the mountains, and we actually found colored Indian beads in an old fire pit area. That is so cool, what you found. I know you will treasure it.

[notdarkyet]

3. Nice. Good find.

[AJT]

5. That's beautiful.

[marble falls]

6. Pretty damn choice!

[fierywoman]

7. Stunning!

[moondust]

9. Cool.

I have one almost identical to that but made of light-colored stone that I found in my back yard as a kid. Also once found what I think is a tomahawk head that looks a lot like this:

[Comatose Sphagetti]

14. Celt (ungrooved axe)

Roughly 1,000 BCE to European contact.

[moondust]

19. Wow.

Thanks! Looking at more Google images there's no question that mine is a granite celt (ungrooved axe).

Maybe I should donate it to a museum or something. ??

[Comatose Sphagetti]

22. That's a good idea.

Would be protected and preserved that way.

[3Hotdogs]

39. Could also be a net sink?

[moondust]

41. Granite celt (ungrooved axe)

The one I found is almost exactly like this:

[jpak]

48. Plummets look like this...

[onecaliberal]

10. Wow, very cool.

[GulfCoast66]

11. Nice! My grandfather had mason jars of arrow heads he found

While walking behind a mule and plow.

Nice story. He actually had a small ‘Indian’ mound or so he thought, on his farm. I guess he might have been right because it was on a very flat flood plain and was 2 yards high and 60-80 feet wide. He cleared the land in the 20’s and someone built that hill. Said after he cleared the land and the first time he plowed it all kinds of stuff came up. After that no one was allowed on the hill. By the time I came around he grazed cows on the land rather than plowed it. But he never allowed it to be disturbed. Said it might be someone’s grave and it would be disrespectful to mess with it.

The land is now owned by my right wing uncle and to his credit the rule remains.

The cows keep it cleared but it has never been dug in since my family owned it.

[Karadeniz]

12. It's beautiful...gonna frame it?

[Comatose Sphagetti]

16. Eventually (with my other finds.)

For the near future I'll just be holding it in my hand turning it over and over; staring - and wondering...

[ProudLib72]

17. I was about to post

You should show us your collection! This new find is awesome, but I bet I'm not the only one whose curiosity is peaked.

[Comatose Sphagetti]

18. Will do.

[Snackshack]

13. That's Super Cool!

Congratulations, nice find!

[spanone]

15. K&R...

[denbot]

20. Very cool

I would also wonder about the person who probably made and carried that tool.

What his or her life was like, and how a seemingly useful and likely valuable tool was separated from it’s owner.

[reACTIONary]

21. K&R

[Hoyt]

23. Nice. Don't look thoroughly, but I always look down for arrowheads when hiking,

especially in washed areas. My dad and granddad found all kinds of artifacts 100 years ago after big rains and plowing.

I’ve only found a few, but nothing that awesome.

[MagickMuffin]

24. Nice find

If you're open minded there is a technique where you hold an object in your hands, kinda what you've been doing. However, if you close your eyes and meditate on it you can connect to its past and maybe even who made / owned it.

If you decide to try it, let me know your results. I'd be interested in hearing about your experience.

[StarryNite]

27. What a great thing to try!

I'm really into all kinds of things like that. I never knew about that technique though.

[MagickMuffin]

31. Vibroturgy, or Psychometry:

is the practice of the perceiving, or receiving impressions, of the history of an object. it is a method used by rosicrucians and psychic practitioners.

It works!!!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

50. It's bunkum. . . . nt

[Mariana]

61. At least in this case, it's bunkum that can't hurt anyone. nt.

[Duppers]

25. Oh WOW! Impressive.

Have you had an archaeologist look at it yet? You're probably an archaeologist or an amateur archaeologist yourself?

[Comatose Sphagetti]

28. Avocational

Been looking for and studying Indian artifacts for over 40 years.

[Duppers]

34. Then I'd say, you're truly an expert.

Thanks for answering.

[StarryNite]

26. Wow!

That is sooo cool!

[JDC]

29. Truly amazing

[Hermit-The-Prog]

30. yeah? but is it still sharp enough to skin a mastodon?

Need to test that. Might have to grow a mammoth, mastodon or giant sloth for a proper test, though.

Beautiful piece!

[alfredo]

32. Where in the country did you find that. I know some can be found in Central Ky

[Comatose Sphagetti]

33. Close... SE Indiana

About 30 miles NW of Cincinnati.
Cobbs Knives have a large distribution range.

[Bob Loblaw]

45. My great grandparents homesteaded on Laughery Creek

near Versailles. The land was sold when I was a child so I never really got to roam the farm. That is one fine artifact you have there, congratulations on your find and thanks for sharing.

[Comatose Sphagetti]

56. Laughery Creek is about 20 miles South

Where it empties into the Ohio is a huge Indian campsite. Never got permission to walk it but friends have and they found many nice artifacts.

[sl8]

49. Hey -- my great^32-grandfather lost his Cobb knife in SE Indiana a few thousand years ago.

His was a different color, though.



Nice find!

[alfredo]

63. Yes they do. I checked the map.

We have Adena mounds n our area

[paleotn]

55. My great uncle's farm near Guthrie KY

We use to find all sorts of arrow heads there, finished points and mistakes, broken points, etc. Loads of fun snooping around his plowed fields when I was a kid.

[JohnnyRingo]

35. Keep it for a week and see if anyone claims it.

Then it's yours!

Kidding aside, that's an awesome find. I'll bet he was pissed he lost it.

[Demovictory9]

36. nice!!!

[mountain grammy]

37. Wow! Great find!

[littlemissmartypants]

38. Excellent! Congratulations! nt

[3catwoman3]

40. Was your heart thudding away?

Mine would have been.

What a treasure!

I, too, would be interested in hearing about it if you try the meditation idea.

[Comatose Sphagetti]

64. Yes, my heart definitely skipped a beat!

To find artifacts that large and that complete is getting harder to do. Humbled to have saved it.

[Ellipsis]

42. Way cool!

My best find is a fire starter stone. It's amazing how well it fits the hand.

[Honeycombe8]

43. That's amazing!

Do you collect these things, or sell them?

[Comatose Sphagetti]

65. I collect them.

I don't buy or sell. I like to collect the ones I have personally found. That way I KNOW they are real.

[Judi Lynn]

44. What a rare treasure. It has aged so perfectly. It's wonderful to see. Stunning. n/t

[demmiblue]

46. Cool beans! K&R

[jpak]

47. Cool - and we think alike about artifacts

[MineralMan]

51. I'm like you in that way.

I found many points and other artifacts near my former home in the Central Coast of California. Relics of the Chumash culture that existed there for many centuries until they were exterminated by the intrusion of the Spanish explorers and the priests that came with them.

I always thought about the people who made and used the artifacts, and spent a lot of time studying what was known of that culture. I learned the natural foods they ate from the area, and even tried many of them that aren't part of our diet.

Artifacts from the past are wonderful triggers for learning.

[Roy Rolling]

52. Amazing

As a kid in the ‘60s I’d look for arrowheads on the ground but never found one. Now I think I’m just a descendant of an immigrant who is living on stolen land.

[KPN]

53. Awesome find. I can only imagine how wondrous it must have felt to actually pick that up in

the moment. A tangible connection to another human's life that many years ago!

[Bayard]

54. What a great find!

How did you date it at 8,000 years?

When I was a kid, I was walking through a newly-plowed field in southern Indiana, and found a really nice grooved ax head. I still have it. This was beside the creek that ran across the end of my folks property. It was very flaky shale on both sides. My dad also collected arrowheads for me there.

In central Calif., the farm I bought used to belong to an amateur archaeologist who had retired from King's Canyon National Park up the road as a park ranger. It had a huge self-built garage, with attached rooms. He used to have a Wild West museum there for the tourist trade headed to the parks. My understanding was that he had a phenomenal collection of Native artifacts, mostly from the Mono tribes in the area. They would spend the hot summers in the high mountains, then come down to our level for the winter (3,000 ft.) There were many grinding stones on the property, including a huge one right in the backyard. All granite.

When this gentleman died, half his collection went to the little local college, and half went to Fresno State. I was told there was a lot of theft before that. There was one big granite bowl left, that I still have, and a big smooth grinding stone that someone stole from me.

[Comatose Sphagetti]

58. Great save on the axe and cool story about your farm!!!

Here is info on the dating of the Cobbs knife. I believe they use C14 dating on associated organic remains to obtain the dates:

https://www.projectilepoints.net/Points/Cobbs.html

[skip fox]

57. Beautiful chipping.

[PatrickforO]

59. It is beautiful!

I love what you said - sometimes if you hold something really old like this, it is fun to wonder who last touched it, and what they thought and cared about, and who they may have loved. I always wonder why people didn't develop the alphabet or technology sooner than they did.

[bigbadR]

60. Wow

Great find.

[Nitram]

62. Wow! Nice point.

[Goodheart]

66. How do you know it's 8000 years old?

Native Americans roamed Indiana much later than 8000 years ago.

I'm not doubting you... just curious how you dated it.

[Comatose Sphagetti]

68. NA's roamed much earlier than 8k years ago.

Here is info on the Cobbs knife. I believe they use C14 dating on associated organic remains to obtain the dates:

https://www.projectilepoints.net/Points/Cobbs.html

[Goodheart]

69. Thank you. Very interesting. It's beautiful.

[SunSeeker]

67. Very cool. Your perseverance paid off! nt

[orangecrush]

70. Kick