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| First Paleo find by my hunting partner.
Again, you can see from the background that there is not a lot of exposed
area to hunt. This was actually found in March of this year. |
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| This is as close as we got to an in-situ as
excitement was high and it was plucked from it's resting spot soon after it
was spotted. It takes a while to establish the discipline to not
immediately pick up a point. I've tried incorporating the method that Tom
Westfall mentions in one of his great books that a friend of his employs.
When he spots an artifact surface hunting he immediately looks away. This
allows him to burn that image of the first sighting in his head. After a few
moments, he'll slowly look back in the direction of the artifact and relive
the experience a second time. It's a challenge but certainly makes it that
much more enjoyable. His friend then lets his hunting partner pick up the
artifact thus being the first to touch the relic since the person who made
it many moons ago. Check out
Tom Westfall's books if you haven't already. |
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| Did this one hit its mark? It has an impact
fracture running from the tip down the entire side and snapped at the base.
The one lateral edge that is intact is heavily ground. In the picture on the
left, the dulling is present from my ring finger down towards the base. |
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| An overview of the surface....it's not as
blown as you'd like to see but it did produce several nice finds this trip. |
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| A metate fragment. A number of whole
examples came from this site. Many manos are still found but the only
metates are in many pieces and are scattered among the burnt rock. This one
was well used on both sides. |
