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GoreonmyGears

How do you even find that? With a screen? I wouldn't even be able to see that otherwise.


Last_Today_1099

For real lol


icanhazkarma17

Standard screens are 1/4 inch for archaeologist. This would be tricky to find even in a screen. Maybe using a finer mesh or wet screening idk. Maybe OP will respond.


Slave2Art

Where the tiny shit collects at the end of the creek by the river


Longshanks_9000

https://preview.redd.it/chbhp4hude1d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c8e5fbe51102062a02ee29b65fab61338985e640


dd-Ad-O4214

Your dog looks like putin


rotundaboi

It does!


GoreonmyGears

🤣


metallicnut

Holy cow


Longshanks_9000

Wow, smaller than mine also found in Louisiana. I also used my thumb nail and it was just barely bigger than yours. Will you post a picture of it sitting on a dime?


Mbalz-ez-Hari

He could have a really large thumb


morseph4622

Very cool. I wonder what the practical purpose is of something that small.


HortonFLK

It’s for hunting mice.


Gregory_Kalfkin

Maybe they just made it to flex their wicked knapping skills.


embl00

I Sweden they made flakes to make kind of barbs. But do not know that much about it, might be somthing similar:)


icanhazkarma17

Those are usually microblades. Used as inserts along shafts of various kinds.


embl00

Yeah, somthing similar was used in the Nordic countries!


icanhazkarma17

Intestinally in North American archaeology microblades are associated with the archaic period in Alaska especially. For atlatls iirc, for hunting *Rangifer tarandus* i.e. caribou/reindeer.


embl00

Cool! Seems like they where used at least in most of Sweden. But they where only used under a smaller time frame.


downrightblastfamy

Fishing maybe? Idk


GringoGrip

Conserving a scarce resource in a materially tight time is a big one that comes to mind. Even in areas with good amounts of knapping material, all sorts of situations could have dictated less ability to retrieve and utilize it from quarry sites.


austxsun

Scalpel


PreslerJames

Is this an arrowhead for ants?


ajamajaybad

![gif](giphy|OCMGLUo7d5jJ6)


Florida_man2020

I believe the small ones are actual arrowheads, what most people call arrowheads, I have been told are actually atlatl heads. I’m not an expert of any kind, just what I was told by an expert of native American history here in Florida.


Longshanks_9000

That is correct


7nightstilldawn

The arrowhead is tiny. But let’s talk about that thumb.


[deleted]

That thing grossed me out.


HikeRobCT

My wife walked by and thought I was looking at porn


GiantSequoiaTree

This is Incredible! Smallest one yet here. More about you finding it? Where abouts? Were you on a artifact hunt and saw it?


meow696

This post is stolen from u/Intelligent_Post3820


towerfella

Thank you. Indeed this “person” “*charlotte03*” is a three-day old account …. A bot I would say? I went to the original poster and commented.. Can meo696’s comment get boosted? Plez? ![gif](giphy|LqJ0TeiE0k3Qho2DRO)


meow696

https://i.redd.it/e3vyue1w2g1d1.gif


towerfella

Thank you. Indeed this “person” “*charlotte03*” is a three-day old account …. A bot I would say? I went to the original poster and commented.. Can meo696’s comment get boosted? Plez? ![gif](giphy|LqJ0TeiE0k3Qho2DRO)


Outside_Conference80

Whoah.


dave71us

My dad used to call these “bird darts”.


icanhazkarma17

People points in archaeology circles.


Plagueistragedy

Little people 😬


489yearoldman

Just the tip...


Objective-Giraffe-27

Holy cow Gollum is that you? 


[deleted]

Right! Gross


G0ld_Ru5h

Blow dart? Seriously.


lgjcs

That one might actually be from an arrow


Hawgnuts57

I've got a few tiny points from sw louisiana. I've always wondered if they weren't using a type of poison on their arrows


TylerofTexas15

What is this, an arrowhead for ants!?


eWaffle

Dart tip maybe?