The following artifacts were recovered when an "island" became exposed this year, when the lake level dropped 20+ feet. This piece of land has not seen the sunshine for 35 years, and yielded an incredible amount of artifacts from Paleo to Woodland. Being at the confluence of two rivers this clearly had been occupied by a great many tribes, for thousands of years. We personally recovered over 200 complete pieces, below are a few:
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| The "tool" in the center is what we call an "all purpose tool" it's a knife, scraper and perferator. | Center artifact is 4.5"x1.75", found by Dave when he tripped over a waterlogged tree limb. |
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| Lake water erroded top soil until dalton, adena, scottsbluff, gary, and this oval knife were all surface finds, lying close together. | Scrapers and knifes. The halfted scraper has been reworked from a projectile point. |