The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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Nothing in particular. I'm tired. I'm tired of being the support for all my RL friends, even though they NEVER ask me how I am. Not once. Not when my kids were diagnosed or now. I'm dealing with inconsiderate people in both of my jobs who "tell" me what I am going to do when really I am the one who is supposed to be making the rules. And I really, really don't like to be alone. I have too much to give someone to be alone. I suppose I will get used to it, but right at the moment I don't think so. As Krex said, This too shall pass.

And on that not so happy note, I'm going to go sulk in a bubble bath with a good book. And earpugs!! I'll be fine.... I promise!

I've had a sneaking suspicion about ADD for a long time, but was reluctant to have still another label to join the arsenal,LOL. But reading your description, Chuck, leaves me with no further doubt. That's me all over. It's gotten worse since my medical retirement. Working was so stressful, because I had to fight so hard to stay focused. Since I worked in a busy Rehab, and later in Sales, no one really noticed my multiple creative ploys to look like I knew what I was doing.

Krex, I can relate to what you are going through. It's the curse of being an Aspie in an NT workplace. We are the only ones working, and every one else is playing some weird crazy game, involving one-up-manship, ass kissing, tale telling, and marathon coffee breaks. Like Cosmiccat said, I am so glad not to have to work. (But I miss having that weekly paycheck.) What I don't miss is the overwhelming stress that these types of people generate, just by walking into a room! I remember them gathering in corners, whispering, documenting, and then having it all thrown into their faces by my Supervisor, whom I suspect had ADD as well, and recognized a kindred spirit.

Nan, a few pages back, you were wondering about the Native American population in New Jersey. I seem to remember learning about the Lenni Lenape tribe, back in third grade, as being common in the New Jersey area.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenape

Yeah Hartz, the Lenape are still around. Although highly infected with wannabe's. May have some distant root's to the Susquehannocks (the main Pennsylvania culture at the same time), but for the known contact period, they were mortal enemies and they got wiped pretty badly. Then the white influx was an ender of sorts. Their culture isn't very well known except in Jersey. The Pennsylvania side is harder, so much strip mining occurred.

Ok Nan, didn't find all my books but did find a generalized thing on that type. All it really said was the full groove was considered to be the earliest (I wasn't aware of that) and his references to this fact were very good, Smithsonian good. I don't really feel up to pawing through my Smithsonian references, even though I can sit here and see them. The full grooved axe is considered to be the oldest. Now, the Archaic time frame is different for all areas of the 48 states and Alaska. Some cultures never got out of the Archaic time frame, there was no need. The archaic is considered more nomadic, gather hunter type. South Central and Southern Florida is one, many plains cultures the same. Farming is considered to be a decider in what came into an after of the archaic. With a terminal or transition stage between it and the Woodland time frame and there didn't need to be any woods to be called woodland. Although I have a little theory on that bit of a decider that wouldn't sit to well. I think farming of a type was long before the corn crap. Can I prove it, not with out one hell of a lot of different sciences coming into play and some bog archaeology which just plain is not done here. And even in the rare occurrence I doubt if they are doing pollen counts. Ok back on topic, to say that for that area of your axe would fall into the 8000BC to 1000BC range is about right. I would tend to drop the 1000 mark back a little, just because the grooved axe had already passed their age of usefulness in that area, I would drop it back to about 3500BC But, the archaic is also divided in to three stages, yours would then go to the earliest. So a beginning age would be about 8000BC and go to roughly to 5000BC. There are some big if's in that. If, lol, I could see a point type I could narrow it down to within say, 500 years either way on a given date, it might be possible. The point types for the early archaic are hard to find in my case, it's almost none existent here, very rare, so I have only handled a few and then it was mostly on a West Virgina site. The rest I had just memorized from books. However there aren't that many different styles to them and even a rough sketch from memory might do it. I still would tend to go with the bifurcated type of point, very easy to recognize, but even within that family there are types. The LeCroy type I have tattooed on my ankle would most likely be the more common and fit your axe type.

Anything much older then your axe would fall into the Paleo period. I have only worked on one feature for those cultures and then it was blown, idiot children didn't have a clue what they had and I didn't get my mits on it till they were going to slow and the bossmen wanted it out of there. (had to they didn't get the proper permission to do that area, which was a quartz outcrop workshop area.) Then I had to convince them it was a feature to begin with. It later turned out to be a very significant find. Even I didn't know it at the time. That was in southern New Hampshire and the flakes came from a mountain in Maine. It was a hearth and they wouldn't let me do it properly.

Anyway, it's really really old, lol. Even older then I am.

I have been reading the posts with great interest.

Krex, I stand with CC, Blessed Mom, Nan in your cheer squad.