Just had a friend from south MS email me about a large cache of blades he and a couple rock hunting budies found in a creek. 98 blades in all! Only in a rock hunters dreams! Here is the email exchange:
friend:
"Found Sunday, there were 98 in all, packed together in a little creek."
me:
"Wow! WTG! I gotta hear the rest of the story."
friend:
"We were just easing up the creek, we thought we had about cleaned it out. Got to a place where we found a killer broke a few weeks ago and I started probing, hit one of the blades, and then another and another...5-6 of them had separated from the main group, and I followed them back to the stack. When I reached in I could feel a bunch of edges, they were literally touching each other so we just took turns bringing them out. I got six in one handful. Finally got tired about 40 or so and they took a turn, so we just took turns bringing them out. I guess they slid down the bank right there a long time ago and just stayed there."
me:
"Wow! Only in a rock hunters dreams! Where they all TQ? Any guesses on age?"
friend:
All TQ, all in the water so well preserved, perfectly in fact. I'd guess Middle Archaic.
More than half of them are just magnificent.
me:
Congrats again! Great story and wonderful artifacts.
I got pics but not in a place I can post them yet. Awesome artifacts. TQ is Talahata Quartzite. It was one of the materials of choice the ancients liked to use in south MS and AL.
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this sounds like a dream I have from time to time... stumbling upon points and artifacts just laying everywhere.
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I am getting short of breath! 
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Wow! Why would there be so many in one spot? Was this like some prehistoric version of Indian stockpiling in case the market crashed and the zombies attacked?
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Or an Indian fire water/horse theft/spear point stash the Indian sheriff's department never found and some other Indian claimed on insurance.
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So these are basically unfinished "rough" blades that could be later made into a variety of things?
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That last pic is incredible!
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That is incredible!
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