Native Finds

[paleoman]

#6176

I’ve found just a couple arrowheads, and my prize find, a stone ax head in all my years of looking (I’ve never looked as a hobby though…). A friend found an old logging camp spittoon in northern Wi. one year too…these finds to me are as thrilling as the best hunts I’ve been on. What treasures have others found, particularly while hunting?

[Jason Wesbrock]

#49344

I’ve only ever found one stone arrowhead. Several years ago I was squirrel hunting some hilly property along the Fox river when I decided to slip up a narrow ravine toward some oak trees. About halfway up the ravine I looked to my right and there, at eye level on the side of the ravine, was a pristine little white stone head. I suppose that place was a good hunting spot hundreds of years ago too.

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#49386

There’s an area we hunt in Nevada that is littered with points and worked stone, mostly obsidian and chert, everywhere you walk. Sometimes I forget that I’m hunting, I’m so focused on looking at the ground.

[David Petersen]

#49543

Not to steer the topic off this happy course, but in the current issue of TBM a writer who is chasing muleys at timberline on public land boasts of finding two perfect arrowheads and keeping them. I’m not saying what I would or would not do in the same circumstance (:twisted:), but only reminding folks that taking artifacts from public land is a federal offense and probably best not boasted in public.

Me, I’m cursed for lithic relecs. Growing up in Okie I went to school with Indians and camped and hunted on the property of Indians (“reservation” there is sort of a meaningless term) and found oodles of buffalo skulls and bones, but never once found a complete lithic point. One friend found a whole pile of arrowheads, made from several different types stone, dozens, and all brand new, in his father’s plowed field. (He figured they had been made and buried as a spiritual or ceremonial offering, probably in a leather pouch that had long since rotted away.) And so on. Been with friends several times when they found them, but the best I’ve found are broken heads. This reminds me I need to add this to my bucket list. And might as well go for the gold: a Clovis or Folsom spear point. Feel free to send me maps to redhot areas for such. I won’t tell a soul. :P:D

[JodyS]

#49556

Living in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains in North Arkansas for most of my life has given me the opportunity to pick up arrowheads while roaming as a child. As a child I found a perfect dovetail point on my dad’s property. I know own the land adjacent to it and take delight in knowing that long before my family, ancient tribes hunted the property as well.

[horserod]

#49717

I used to go hunting on my Aunt & Uncle’s land along the Ohio River here in Ohio. Uncle Wendall knew I loved bowhunting and was always giving me stone points he found. I still got them…..somewhere in all my archery artifacts. Bullseye

[David Coulter]

#51528

My favorite find as a kid was a head of broadhead ax, sans handle. It was probably discarded out the back of a shop and thrown down over the bank to be buried under years of leaves. Those were back in the days of hunting chipmunks with my bb gun, probably 45 years ago. dwc

[paleoman]

#51640

I mentioned finding a couple arrowheads up there..well, I had found a 3rd!! It was a perfect Woodland period point, totally intact. There it was lying in the freshly scuffed soil of a log skid trail in a beautiful looking hunting spot – there was definitely a connection there..Well, my 5 or 6 year old son conned me into taking it to show and tell at school. I said fine, as long as he took good care of it and brought it back. He did as I asked, putting it into one of those plastic pudding cups wrapped in a napkin. I promptly threw it in the trash:( UGH! Gone for another eon:(!!!!

[Ralph]

#51783

Things like this metate (sp?) are fun to find also

[Ralph]

#51792

This one also. I know where more are so I know there were camps around. I’ll spend more time looking this summer I hope. Last year was just too hot here in the Panhandle, hottest and driest on record. We stayed in the shade a bunch.

[Ralph]

#58247

Found some more yesterday.

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