NEVER found an arrowhead, really don’t expect to,

I’ve been looking for sheds tho, and feel just as frustrated.

All I’m finding is tracks and poop. Lots and lots of poop.

Im finding a lot of flint and quartz chips while turkey hunting but havent found a whole head since winter. Only a matter of time though. We are getting a lot of rain.

We find them occasionally up here in the Mid-Hudson Valley. I have a friend who seems to have a knack for looking in the right places. He says to look mainly on the outside of a stream’s turn.

I’ve only ever found one in my life, ironically enough while I was looking for a small game arrow that missed a squirrel.

Not since last Fall, when I found this battered little head while bird hunting at the n. end of our valley:

I never found one but if I ever do it would be most prized.A few years back my dad was doing a little tractor work on his place.My nephew and niece were playing in the woods and came back and were telling their mom about this rock they found.They were using it to chop ferns, building their fort.My sister told them to go get it, she wanted to see it.It turned out to be a stone axe or wedge.The craftsmanship was amazing. Unlike a knapped arrow head it had a polished smooth appearance.They found it were dad had did a little tractor work and boy was I jealous.My sister still has it….Luckys!

When you figure all of the time I’ve spent on trout streams, I should have a massive collection. On the other hand, I wasn’t looking for them.

Yes, Quabogs here, or were. Lots of them.

Been reading a lot of Stephen King? Or just going to church a lot.

Down here where the Ozarks run into the Mississippi Delta we find them all the time. The Osage, Chickasaw and other tribes often camped on the slopes of the hills and trapped and netted fish in the numerous rivers in our area. A freshly plowed field near these little streams is a bonanza. My oldest son found a beautiful flint knife in our backyard while digging under an old stump, years later Our youngest son found a green flint spear point near the same spot. We find small arrowheads quite often near the Black River.

The Mississippian Culture centered near Cahokia, IL left items everywhere.

Finding arrowheads seems to be one of those things where you either have the knack or you don’t. I grew up in Eastern Kentucky, and people I knew would always find them, but I never did, despite looking for them.

My wife must have above average visual processing ability. She has a real talent for picking out a particular wild edible out of a sea of green plants, or seeing the outline of an animal track on messy terrain, things like that.

A few years ago, we were backpacking in Oregon’s Badger Creek Wilderness. We took a break on top of a high ridge line. She bent over and picked an arrowhead out of all the scree and such underfoot.

It was a small game point. Seems like many arrowheads are found in watercourses, and thus could have been taken a long way by the water. This one must have been lost or discarded right close to where we found it, since it was still up on top of the ridgeline.

Critch wrote: A freshly plowed field near these little streams is a bonanza.

Yep. And look right after a rain when the arrowheads in the freshly plowed field will be washed clean and a bit shiny.

My uncle was pretty good at finding them and he taught me to search plowed fields along streams right after a good rain.

I’ve found a couple dozen using that method.

A local archeologist for Mizzou looked at both points. He said the green flint came from Eastern Kansas, the knife blade was very old, much older than the spear point.

Collections I’ve seen around here have lots of those knife blades. Arrowheads are far more common than the spear points.

We also have what we think may have been a bowl for mixing things. It’s a soft kind of rock and is hollowed out in the middle to the depth of maybe 2 inches. It’s obvious that someone hollowed it out. For what reason, who knows? I’m curious why someone would leave something that obviously took a lot of time and effort to make..My oldest son found that bowl in a steam in the higher Ozarks west of here.

Don’t ya wish you could step back in time and see the people who built and used these artifacts..?

Hey Scott, the pics not the best in the world but you can get the idea.

A lot of them from my mom’s old place in western CO., some from my aunt’s old land east of Aquilar, CO., some from here on my hunting lease, some from my old daddy-in-law’s place in south central NM. and others from????

Critch, that’s probably a metate, some like these, were permanent where the tribes camped for a period of times, others were smaller and portable. The rock laying on the big rock is called a mono. That’s what the grinding was done with.

Various kinds of wild grains as well as corn were ground in these metates.

Yup! You’re a working man. How many tools do you use in your livelihood that you pick up to use and “just know” by feel it’s gonna work just fine?

When your tool is a bow and arrows, shot’em since you could walk, you’re gonna know by feel whether it’s kosher or not.

I’ve weighed arrowheads of different sizes and types of stone and there is no pattern of any kind. Big ones can weigh less than little ones, different pieces of stone that look similar can weigh way different.

When it comes to eatin’ lots of complications are not worried about or even thought of.

Learn how to shoot the d**n thing and go fetch supper.:D

My thinkin!!!!