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re: Anyone know anything about Indian arrowheads?
Posted on 6/7/23 at 8:26 am to bbvdd
Posted on 6/7/23 at 8:26 am to bbvdd
Awesome, I got pretty big into it a few years ago and now I have hundreds, it can be pretty addicting. The small pieces are called debitage, they're knocked off the chert core while making the arrowheads. The points you have in your hand were not actually used with a bow & arrow but with an atlatl. As others have said, there are going to be a lot more where those came from. It looks like you have a camp and these sites were revisited over and over. Over thousands of years a lot of artifacts get buried in the dirt. What type of water source is nearby?
I can help you identify the types later today when I have more time but these are much older than Cherokee, likely late archaic time period.
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North central MS, so they should be Cherokee
I can help you identify the types later today when I have more time but these are much older than Cherokee, likely late archaic time period.
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Posted on 6/7/23 at 8:40 am to bbvdd
I thought only the Natchez, Chickasaw and Chocktaw were in Mississippi?
Posted on 6/7/23 at 8:43 am to bbvdd
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North central MS, so they should be Cherokee
Not necessarily. Some of the arrowheads/artifacts that have been found in N. Alabama predate the Creek, Cherokee etc tribes in this area.
Posted on 6/7/23 at 8:45 am to Tigerpaw123
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pretty cool to find and think about the time and skill to make them
I got rather interested in them a few years ago and learned flintknapping. The skill takes a lot of practice, but once you have some experience, you can make a decent point in less than 30 minutes.
I've only found a few intact points over the years but I've found hundreds of pottery sherds, some decorated with lines and shapes.
I'd travel hours to walk a creek or field known for producing arrowheads!
This post was edited on 6/7/23 at 8:46 am
Posted on 6/7/23 at 9:01 am to Jack Daniel
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I thought only the Natchez, Chickasaw and Chocktaw were in Mississippi?
Posted on 6/7/23 at 9:14 am to Jack Daniel
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I thought only the Natchez, Chickasaw and Chocktaw were in Mississippi?
I said Cherokee and meant Chickasaw
Posted on 6/7/23 at 9:15 am to weadjust
That may have been the tribal boundaries when the white people showed up, but that's just a snapshot in time, relatively recent history. Different tribes and cultures have shifted over 12,000 years, and in my opinion, more than 12,000 years.
Posted on 6/7/23 at 9:20 am to Comancheria
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What type of water source is nearby?
My place is partly on a hill and partly in a river bottom. These were found on the hilly part. It’s right up from where my lake is now.
There are a couple of run off creeks to the north and south of my land the leads to a mud bottom river that is close to a mile away.
Posted on 6/7/23 at 9:23 am to weadjust
Oh yea forgot about Biloxi
Posted on 6/7/23 at 9:34 am to bbvdd
Tim Magraw sang about it.
Posted on 6/7/23 at 10:10 am to bbvdd
get out in those waterways if you can. Look for sandy/gravel patches/bottom and shovel and sift those near surface sediments. I know of folks in Miss. that find incredible points/spear points/drills/etc doing this. Make yourself a sieve out of close woven wire (1/2" to 1/4") and swim noodles at the top so they kinda float.
Posted on 6/7/23 at 10:36 am to HillabeeBaw
Are you from/live in Calhoun county, by chance?
Posted on 6/7/23 at 10:44 am to bbvdd
Very cool.
We have a farm in south Georgia, and my dad has boxes and boxes of artifacts from his time there. He recently picked out all the best pieces and split them up among us all, and let the grandkids pick some pieces, too.
Back when we used to bottom plow, you'd always find new ones. Amazing to think what remains hidden out there in this vast world.
We have a farm in south Georgia, and my dad has boxes and boxes of artifacts from his time there. He recently picked out all the best pieces and split them up among us all, and let the grandkids pick some pieces, too.
Back when we used to bottom plow, you'd always find new ones. Amazing to think what remains hidden out there in this vast world.
Posted on 6/7/23 at 11:17 am to bbvdd
this will help , I think you have a Archusa point or possibly a Johnson point
I could be totally wrong as going off the images a location
great link to use when Searching Points
Archusa
I could be totally wrong as going off the images a location
great link to use when Searching Points
Archusa
Posted on 6/7/23 at 11:21 am to ml
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Are you from/live in Calhoun county, by chance?
No but wife grew up there
Posted on 6/7/23 at 11:31 am to Got Blaze
Look at the Jude Stemmed. I think it might be one.
Jude Stemmed
And thanks for that link. It’s great
Jude Stemmed
And thanks for that link. It’s great
Posted on 6/7/23 at 11:49 am to bbvdd
The one busted in half is/was a Kirk Stemmed. Spear point, between 8 and 9000 years old.
Posted on 6/7/23 at 12:10 pm to deeprig9
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The one busted in half is/was a Kirk Stemmed.
Was looking at that one as well.
There is a broken one. Tip that’s real skinny in the second pic. Top one on the second row, red and white. Want to find out what it is.
Posted on 6/7/23 at 12:21 pm to bbvdd
I’ve found a bunch in my day. This one last year in a corn field in south Franklin parish.
I looked at the type/shape online and best guess is it came down from the Ohio River Valley possibly 3,000 years ago.
Love finding arrowheads… it’s like an ancient mirror reflecting the past to the future. Gives me chills when I find them.
Posted on 6/7/23 at 12:23 pm to Honest Tune
I found this one in high school, 1998. Checking cotton in Tensas close to the river.
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