This stuff better be legit, cause I'm only helping out the rook!

Clearly I am incapable of following the simplest of instructions.
Perhaps you could shed light on what I did wrong?

Rookies are limited to like 5 or 10 posts a day, and they can't hotlink. Once you've got enough posts built up, the site will automatically give you hotlink priviliges.

Even then, you have to use the right HTML tagging to display the image.

{img}yourstuffhere{/img}, except with the square brackets.

Ok thanks.
That wasn't in the instructions. The IMGs and brackets are there, they just don't show in the post.
It was my first post in several years on this site. I had to re-register.

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Yuccadoo,

That first one you posted appears to be a VERY ancient Folsom point, as old as 11,000 years old possibly. Very cool.

Anyone else want me to try to ID thier find, I have a copy of "A Field Guide to Stone Artifacts of Texas Indians", which is pretty thorough. Those two great big points are trade blanks most likely. They fit the description perfectly.

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Thanks....I have been studying the subject for a while (since my college days) and have a section of my library dedicated to information from Suhm and Jelks forward to the referenced books.

I even typed a piece of pottery I found once by happenstance. I was standing in line at the checkout counter at Sears and I noticed a Boy Scout Merit badge guide on Native Americans. I thumbed through it while I was standing there and actually found a labelled piece of pottery with the EXACT same markings and design to a piece I found on an old meander scar on the Brazos River.

Proving you never know where you will learn something new, or find data that corresponds to something relevant you are working on.

I am glad your interest extends to reading on the subject. An enormous number of people thrive almost exclusively on rumor and innuendo when it comes to their knowledge of Native Americans. I fall slightly into that category because it is hard to find accurate information in all areas of interest. I have heard my share of whoppers stated as fact on the subject, so the disinformation is widespread and thick.

I have talked to old timers in this area that tell stories of times when their grandparents lived here, and learned many things, from first hand dealings with Indian traders to places where the Brazos River used to run when their grandparents first came here. Stories about sharecroppers and old men that ran the prison gangs on the Brazos farms back in the day. So much history is out there, but much of it dies with those that possess the oral pieces that only they know.

Thanks again!

Yuck is becoming one of my favorite posters - keep it up!

Mouth,

Some interesting points in that post. I have run across a few corner tangs on walks among middens near Georgetown, on private lands where I was with the owners. Bell county is so rich with Native American history. The confluence of human and animal concentrations created by the abundance of springs left millenia of cultural evidence alongs streams, rivers and natural shelters.

The entire Balcones escarpment was prime hunting/gathering area for native Americans. Can't beat water and food for a place to live, or at least pass by as you travel with those that migrate.