TRADITIONAL Bowhunting-----Check out this PIC

[tippit]

It looks like the distal end of the the radius (front leg) where the cartilage growth plate (epiphysis) separted through the years.  Is the end we don't see fractured?  Doc

[TNstickn]

Awesome find. Thanks for sharing with us. I'll be day dreaming about that for the rest of the season. Hope you get an answer as to what kind/part of the animal it came from. Cant wait to hear!!

[Killdeer]

Take a deer leg. Cut the toe off, drop it in a pot of boiling water. When the hoof boils soft, the keratin lamina separates easily from the toebone. The toebone looks like the bone in the picture.

Killdeer  

[Kevin Bahr]

Thanks for the biology lesson, Falk.  I needed that!  Still a great find and cool picture.

[Falk]

Kevin, your are welcome  :D

The following picture shows the distal bones from:  Bison bison

I have to admit, now that Tippit has mentioned it, that I like his idea of the end of a radius too - proximal end though. This way the deep lobes around the articulation surface and the obvious lack of rough surface and holes from many vessles through the bone, could be explained.
Estimating the size I think it could be no Bison anymore. A Deer then?! Shot from the right, quatering away, but the hunter missed a deadly shot by an inch or two ... Bad luck!

We need more pics!

DW, BTW: Sure a great find - if I failed to say that - sorry! But I somehow like this sort of puzzle - and get carried away  

[Killdeer]

 
Me too!
 

[SilverTip]

I got your message Don, thanks. It looks like a Lanceolate type pojectile/spear possibly a Agate Basin or late Paleo. If you get a another look at it check and see if it has grinding on the base and up the lateral side hafting areas. the grinding is very light to medium on those type of points. If it lacks the grinding, they also made a few lanceolate projectiles in the Middle to late Archaic period without grinding. No matter what time period its from thats a awesome find and should be documented. They found a clovis in a mamouth bone and that proved the use and age of those type of spears, before that it was just a guessing game.  Super find and thanks for the look.

          Billy

[CheapShot]

Wow, I have found a few points over the years, gut nothing that cool. I sure would like to see it in person some day. Thanks for sharing with us Don.

[TradPaul]

It looks like a very old projectile inbedded in a very old Snapping Turtle head....do they have those in Tennessee?     Anyway thats what it looks like to me...


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[Tom Leemans]

Well obviously, it's Achilles heal bone!

[John3]

Great pic!!! What a find.

[Bjorn]

Nice-thanks for sharing!

[cmh]

What a excellant find    Tahnks for the pic.  Craig