12" x12" square

A sample of what is found on any 12"x12 "square.

The digging technique

They are on the surface, one or two hoe deep and who knows how much deeper.

Shapes

And if it was not for the similarity of shapes ...

A sense of duty

I was just wondering why I keep posting. It must be because of a sense of duty. The duty to share what one finds. Is that what it is ?
For the third time, I cleaned my studio of stones. Too many. Overwhelming. I caught and released them in nature sending them with good wishes. I kept a number of trays, a collection of what I consider the best examples of tools and figure stones.
I became frustrated feeling like I was in kindergarten learning a new language. That somewhere I was missing the ability to understand, that logic and intuition were not enough, that maybe a sense was missing.
For a while, I gave myself the instruction :" No more stones inside the house! Just look !". This lasted for a couple of months.
But now they are back!

Ah! if it was not for those beaks....

It it was not for those faces....

3 of a kind

This is in response to Ken Johnston's latest post  and comment on the rarity of repetitions of shapes in rocks.
http://www.portablerockart.blogspot.com/2013/05/certainly-not-habit-of-nature.html
As I was sorting out  a tray of cherts, those three shapes stood out.

A rugged bunch

How can you explain something you do not understand?  you can't.
These look like nothing much. What? a bunch of chert pieces, nothing more.

(These were mixed with the other stones shown before.)

And yet...among those, I found this beautiful profile...

More on this one and others later.

I suppose (3)

9. I don't have a word for these shapes.

10.One side thinned , smoothed out

11.One side carved out, often at a 90 degrees angle.

12.One side broken

13. Rounded,smoothed

14 .Large- those fit in the palm of my hands/versus the big majority of the rocks fits between 2 or 3 fingers

15. Very small.