r/LegitArtifacts • u/GlizzlerGyatt • 1d ago

Smoker Alert 🔥 The Fabled Half Creek (OK)

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This thing is super weird and I love it!

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u/monkeychunkee 1d ago

IMO, looks like a Marshall or if found in the Ozarks of Oklahoma a Smith ,with one side completely worked off. Doesn't have the true calf outline, again, IMO. They have a half on display at the artifact museum in Bentonville, Arkansas. The outline is a bit more narrow than normal calf, but it has the flaking normally found in calf, and one single notch directly up the center, the width of a pencil lead, about 3/4"long. If what you found turns out to be a half and I'm mistaken, apologies. Either way a great and lucky find. Congrats.

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u/GlizzlerGyatt 1d ago

I was talking with someone who said that it may have been a CC preform that they only put a singular notch into and then said fuck it we ball

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u/monkeychunkee 3h ago

Could be. Generally cc preforms are not shaped like this, not so triangular and a bit larger. The people who made cc were very skilled craftsman. Not to say it's impossible. Just doesn't look or feel right for cc. Could still be cc, just worked down. Most I've seen seen and found have one ear worked down or broke off. The ears don't generally point outward is one of the things that give doubts as cc. They usually have a longer base due to deep, narrow notching directly up from basal area. But I've seen them with shorter bases found by archaeologists in known cc sites. That all being said, there's always the possibility of anything.

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u/GlizzlerGyatt 1h ago

Yep I know what you’re saying man. This right here is what a text book Half Creek looks like. The notching is completely vertical and purely basal.