u/talkingwires

Small finds from my most recent visit to a site. Still hoping to find somebody else that has seen “ceramics” like these.

All found on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, and within ten feet of each other. Some are quartz/quartzite, but it is the assemblage and coloration that has me stumped.

Here’s my collection seeing daylight for the first time in almost thirty years. I figured that The Maxx had fallen into obscurity until I was at the birthday celebration of a friend of a friend and somebody gave her the first five issues of The Maxx as a present. He’s sitting there, explaining the story of the Maxx to the birthday girl like and I’m like, “Oh, I’ve read those, too.”

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Human brains are pattern-recognition machines, I know some of you can see what’s going on here if you pay attention to the details.

My working theory is that it is a post-contact site circa 1750, I have found all sorts of worked European glass and ceramic pieces.

Dunno how that last picture snuck in there. That’s not a concretion, what’s up with that rock? ;-P

Context is Late Archaic to Early Woodland(?) site in Maryland, diagnosed by two Bare Island points although I have found some glass shards that appear worked, too.

If anybody has an explanation for how these smooth pieces of quartz became adhered through a natural process—some becoming oxidized like they were in a fire, and others becoming polished or oiled—I am all ears…

At least I managed to get some of these in focus...

Unpaired male mockingbirds are known to sing like this throughout the night. I thought that maybe I'd disturbed him, but he was just taking a short break.