How big can an arrowhead be? Asking because these are pretty big.

Looks like prototype landsharks. Wooly mammoths were challenging.

Really didn’t know how big or small a spear would be.

The center one is exactly 3”.

Also in this area, I’ve found hundreds of rock chips where they were making them.

I've found one that was similar to the middle one south of Selma, AL. It's damn near "perfect" for a spear head. I'll have to find it in my dad's stuff somewhere

Most likely atlatl points. Could be spear point. Very nice finds.

Left two are spear/atlatl points and the one on the right is a hide scraper.

The points are on the upper end of size range for Southern materials (chert)... much larger points are possible but typically require higher grade flints found in Missouri, TX etc.

These would be considered "field grade" points. Nice finds

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assume the rounded is for a hatchet or something? It appears to be broken

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That center one is in great shape, I haven’t found one in 30-40yrs. But I can remember thinking how cool it was to be standing in the excactly same spot where someone had shot at something hundred of years before me.
Must have been some kind of frustration spending all that time to knap tbat head make those arrows and and strip and glue the feathers to only miss because your batteries were dead in your rangefinder!!!

Far right could be a scraper or it could be a blank, or even a chip off the old block from the process of flintknapping. Hard to tell without more pics from all sides. One thing that will help you recognize different types of points is watching guys on YT flintknap various types of points and tools.

I have points that are the size of your thumbnail to ones as long and wide as a coke can, ones that are fluted, fire tempered, crudely made tools and poorly made points from later, less skilled flintknappers from the Choctaw tribe (they weren't as skilled because they didn't have to be as they grew corn better than they hunted and gathered but were great at making marbles and other ceremonial pieces) and everything in between.

My best recommendation is to not get into the hobby because you will piss away TONS of time

Agreed.

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I break with anthropological doctrine and think people have been in North America much longer than what the "scientific consensus" is. In my anthropology classes at UGA (I minored in it), they were saying 10-12,000 years. I called bullshite. Now they are saying maybe 20+ thousand years. I think it's closer to 100,000 than 10,000.

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I’ve read that there is a site in South Carolina where some mammoth bones appear to show signs of human scraping, dating to 50,000 years ago. Of course, that theory has been criticized by the establishment, but I’d say the White Sands footprints lends credence to the idea that people have been here for far longer than what the establishment believes. 100,000 years seems perfectly reasonable to me. Why not?

“But there’s no evidence to support that date!” they say. Yeah, no shite. Do you know how far down in the dirt that kind of evidence would be? Archeologists don’t even think to dig that far down because they don’t think there is a reason to. Who knows what’s down that deep, and where to even start looking for it.