Distribution of Clovis points…
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Hard to come by for sure
A buddy of mine found a solid black double fluted clovis in Weakley County years ago.
Beautiful point for sure.
Beautiful point for sure.
DoubleRidge
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Fascinating map....I would love to find a fluted clovis.... buddy of mine has a broken base.
@RUGER You reckon there's any way you could get a pic of that? Sounds like a beautiful piece!
I will look around and see.
He sold it to the rockman and it ended up in one of his books.
I ALMOST bought it but he wanted $1,000 for it.
Think he ended up taking like $400 for it
Just text my buddy. He said he does have pictures of it still.
I will post as soon as I get them.
Well he said this is the only one he could find out of 5,000 pictures. LOL
He has a couple much better pictures but can't find them.
It really was a beautiful piece.
Best I remember it was 4 3/4" long
He got robbed at $400!!!
Little better pic, looks more like 4 1/4"
Been a minute LOL
Been a minute LOL
Yeah he sold thousands of dollars worth of points for about nickles on the dollar.
Tennrock
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Only found one complete one. I have found 2 broke bases and one "maybe" Clovis. Very rare, been hunting since 86. All these from Middle Tennessee.
Maybe? :
Bases, one still has the fluting nipple:
Maybe? :
Bases, one still has the fluting nipple:
DoubleRidge
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Wow!...Absolutely beautiful...thanks for sharing
What a beautiful piece and what a dumb@ss all at the same time! $400!? Sheesh
Ya.What a beautiful piece and what a dumb@ss all at the same time! $400!? Sheesh
He had the absolute most perfect celt and gaming stone I have ever seen in my life.
Both were made out of some kind of green rock.
Absolutely beautiful and perfect condition.
FARMTOFIELD
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I've found 2 quad bases, 1 broken clovis, and 1 broken fluted Cumberland in middle tennessee
Huntaholic
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Closest Ive ever came to finding a clovis was finding a quad.
Tennrock
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These are rare too:
Middle Tennessee, and the Ohio, Cumberland, and Tennessee River valleys have good distributions of Clovis points. Possibly because of being an ice free region. There is some speculation that Clovis originated in those areas.
Nice Beavers.
Huntaholic
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Its been at least 20 years since I looked at an Overstreet? guide book but I believe those are beaver lakes?
Smo
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I knew a Guy that claimed too have found 7 fluted Clovis points under one of the TVA power line towers..
He said they were all point down in a small circle with the largest one in the center of the circle…
He claimed all 7 were in perfect condition..
I know he did have some very good finds.
He said they were all point down in a small circle with the largest one in the center of the circle…
He claimed all 7 were in perfect condition..
I know he did have some very good finds.
Huntaholic
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I know to look under overhangs, high level spots close to a year round water source, even low gaps and saddles in a ridge, but now youre telling me I need to start looking under powerlines too!I knew a Guy that claimed too have found 7 fluted Clovis points under one of the TVA power line towers..
He said they were all point down in a small circle with the largest one in the center of the circle…
He claimed all 7 were in perfect condition..
I know he did have some very good finds.
Smo
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This was on a high ridge near Seven Mile Island in North Alabama.
Not far from the Indian Mound Museum…
Not far from the Indian Mound Museum…
Did any of you guys go to the show this past weekend in Grand Rivers? I've started going to some of them including this one...and it amazes me how deep of pockets some people have for this stuff. I'm over here drooling over a museum grade G10 Pickwick a guy wants $1,000 for and people around me looking at Rattlesnake shell gorgets and death masks selling for $60k+. Some points/blades going for over $100k and the people buying them not batting an eye. Lol. That Paleo stuff goes for high dollar...way out of my price range. One thing for sure...rock collectors have deep pockets.
It's gotten pretty pricey. There are a couple of collectors who are buying every high grade Paleo and early Archaic piece that they can. A friend has found two Cumberland points in the past six months and one of those guys paid sixty grand for both of them.
I've seen a few of those frames that are no doubt worth over a million each. And he has several of those frames.
Yes, deep pockets and driving the price out of range for all except a select few.
Teacher
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I found my first fluted Clovis in April of 1983. Had two friends with me when I found it. I was offered a thousand a couple of years ago for it and I declined the offer. I have two others in a safe deposit box at the bank. One is absolutely a museum grade point and the other is all there but does not have the quality of workmanship the other one has. I am very fortunate to have found these three points as I know folks who have hunted all their lives and never even found a broken base. I have been very fortunate to have found all the Paleo points that I have. The Lecroy is my absolute favorite point with the Dalton close behind it.
KTS
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Been hunting arrowheads almost all my life. Only Paleo piece I ever found is a Paleo square knife.
Anyone is extremely lucky to find anything Paleo.
Anyone is extremely lucky to find anything Paleo.
