Illiniguy, thank you very much, that was great info. I will print it on a small piece of paper and place it in the case with the “point”.
Like I stated in my original post, when I found the “point” I called the Herkimer County CC (part of the SUNY system) and talked to a Professor of Archeology, whose 1st question was “Where do you live” …. followed by “I’ll be right there”. And in 20 minutes he was.
After he checked the site where it was buried, …. which is about 2+ miles up on top of a per se mountain overlooking Utica and the Mohawk River, (see pic below)…. he estimated its age at approximately 10K years old. But he was kinda young, like 30’ish, so I’ve always been dubious of his learned experiences. (ps: I was a “gentleman” farmer, worked full time as a computer design eng. and raised “beefers” for tax purposes)
And to repeat my story for all the new members and viewers, it was probably what some would call a “miracle” that I found it. I had been using my 1010 JD dozer to fix up some tractor/jeep roads on my “back 40” and being low on gas decided to head back to the barn. I took a short-cut across the cow pasture which was full of those “humpies” so I just lowered the blade so it would ”cut” about 1” or so of dirt thus filling in the low spots and cutting through those “humpies” out in front of me, effective making another smooth tractor road.
It was a week or so later and a rain storm or two, that I was out walking the “back 40” and came back that way and right in the exact center of where I pushed through one of those “humpies” laid that knife point, …… flat & flush even with the top of the “cut”. If that dozer blade had been 1” higher or ¼ inch lower then that knife point would still be a lost artifact.
The absolute truth is, I walked past it about 5 feet, stopped dead in my tracks, was absolutely sure I had just seen an hallucination and was afraid to look back to see if it was really lying there. Now talk about a “rush of adrenalin” as I lifted it up unbroken, out of its resting place in that hard clay soil.
To give you an idea how “high up” from the river that knife point was found, I just received this picture a couple days ago. It was taken on the west side of the house I once owned and is “looking” slightly SSE with the City of Utica, NY toward the right. On clear nights one can see the “city lights” a twinkling.
