Clovis Knife - Authentic As Found: 5 - 3/16” Payson Chert, Pike Co, IL.
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:4390753 | Country/Region of Manufacture: United States |
For sale is another late-paleolithic, patina-shined Clovis Knife from Pike Co., IL.Measures: 5-3/16”of very fine-grain Payson Chert (a central Illinois strain of Burlington).
This is a killer, well-hunted and fully-ancient artifact, featuring a very stout cross-section and some serious fluting.
Although re-sharpened many times, it still seems to be in its original Knife Form, .
Soon enough it would be "basally-thinned', and the Stem s...ides would be tapered...
all for an anticipated usage as a Hafted Spear, and then after, as an AtlAtl Point.
This baby may easily have served more than one owner in its useful lifetime, perhaps over centuries, and seems to be a pre-Glacial Recession era; Clovis (+/- 10, 800 BC). This is an average time period when Clovis were making this style of point, in this particular area.(certainly was made and used a bit before the 'Great Event' of 9, 400BC, and it's subsequent Younger-Dryas period 9, 400BC - 8, 000BC).It shows centuries of body re-sharpenings & salvages of it's many, perhaps many owners.The Tip andboth Rails suffered numerous Impact Fractures from hunting in antiquity.The entire piece displays high absorption of minerals, and significant utilitarian-usage patina, including the anciently re-sharpened Tip Area.
Surface patina under UV Illumination suggests extensive weather cycling, and utilitarian usages.
The Patina's color-shift, (across the surface of the entire piece), suggests:
some workmanship in the Tip area was performed at a different time, than was the body & stem of the piece.
But, any such workmanship was also performed in antiquity, but from a slightly later era.Found by Sen. Claude "Bud" Stone (1919).
x- Dr. 'Big Jim' Parker (1949) & Arlene Parker collections (1988).
Ancient vs. Modern Rationale:The levels of absorbed minerals, when viewed across the entire piece, look to be different, between the Tip, and the Basal Edge.A constant Color Heat can suggest "all was flaked at one time", whereas; 'varied' Color Heat (different hues or tones of the 'surface patina sheen', across the entire piece), may suggest that the different-colored areas were re-flaked at different times from each other.But it is the equality of the absorbed minerals between these two areas, are what will suggest weather it was re-sharpened in antiquity, or modernity.This suggests the piece was flaked at different times, but still in relatively the same time, (or within 400 to 600 years (40-60 generations) from *** time of manufacture), (*** A time in a rock's morphology when one can discern 'a differentiation in surface-patina color/sheen' , and it starts to be become visible to our eyes, as differences in "color heat" across the entire piece (via 370nm near-UV Illumination (and other proprietary wavelengths as well).
This is the hart of the whole 'flaked in antiquity'; as opposed to 'flaked in modernity' , argument.Most points (60%), in sad reality, are a combination of both; anciently made, but modernly re-tip'd pieces, and thus are most collections.We 'try' to keep modernly re-worked ones detected... but ya' always miss a few... simply because its constant.So forgive us if we miss one here and there, and relax knowing we'll always refund one's $$$, quietly.
Guaranteed to be Authentic and Legally Found... or 'easy & fast return'.
This is a killer, well-hunted and fully-ancient artifact, featuring a very stout cross-section and some serious fluting.
Although re-sharpened many times, it still seems to be in its original Knife Form, .
Soon enough it would be "basally-thinned', and the Stem s...ides would be tapered...
all for an anticipated usage as a Hafted Spear, and then after, as an AtlAtl Point.
This baby may easily have served more than one owner in its useful lifetime, perhaps over centuries, and seems to be a pre-Glacial Recession era; Clovis (+/- 10, 800 BC). This is an average time period when Clovis were making this style of point, in this particular area.(certainly was made and used a bit before the 'Great Event' of 9, 400BC, and it's subsequent Younger-Dryas period 9, 400BC - 8, 000BC).It shows centuries of body re-sharpenings & salvages of it's many, perhaps many owners.The Tip andboth Rails suffered numerous Impact Fractures from hunting in antiquity.The entire piece displays high absorption of minerals, and significant utilitarian-usage patina, including the anciently re-sharpened Tip Area.
Surface patina under UV Illumination suggests extensive weather cycling, and utilitarian usages.
The Patina's color-shift, (across the surface of the entire piece), suggests:
some workmanship in the Tip area was performed at a different time, than was the body & stem of the piece.
But, any such workmanship was also performed in antiquity, but from a slightly later era.Found by Sen. Claude "Bud" Stone (1919).
x- Dr. 'Big Jim' Parker (1949) & Arlene Parker collections (1988).
Ancient vs. Modern Rationale:The levels of absorbed minerals, when viewed across the entire piece, look to be different, between the Tip, and the Basal Edge.A constant Color Heat can suggest "all was flaked at one time", whereas; 'varied' Color Heat (different hues or tones of the 'surface patina sheen', across the entire piece), may suggest that the different-colored areas were re-flaked at different times from each other.But it is the equality of the absorbed minerals between these two areas, are what will suggest weather it was re-sharpened in antiquity, or modernity.This suggests the piece was flaked at different times, but still in relatively the same time, (or within 400 to 600 years (40-60 generations) from *** time of manufacture), (*** A time in a rock's morphology when one can discern 'a differentiation in surface-patina color/sheen' , and it starts to be become visible to our eyes, as differences in "color heat" across the entire piece (via 370nm near-UV Illumination (and other proprietary wavelengths as well).
This is the hart of the whole 'flaked in antiquity'; as opposed to 'flaked in modernity' , argument.Most points (60%), in sad reality, are a combination of both; anciently made, but modernly re-tip'd pieces, and thus are most collections.We 'try' to keep modernly re-worked ones detected... but ya' always miss a few... simply because its constant.So forgive us if we miss one here and there, and relax knowing we'll always refund one's $$$, quietly.
Guaranteed to be Authentic and Legally Found... or 'easy & fast return'.
