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re: Anyone know anything about Indian arrowheads?
Posted on 6/7/23 at 1:09 pm to bbvdd
Posted on 6/7/23 at 1:09 pm to bbvdd
Man I have been trying to find some at my place. So far only pottery sherds in the creek but if there is pottery there has to be points i would think. Our creek is mostly smaller gravel
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Posted on 6/7/23 at 1:19 pm to bayoudude
Take a tiller down there and move some dirt. I find pottery pieces and arrowheads every time I till up my garden.
Posted on 6/7/23 at 1:20 pm to bbvdd
found a couple planting a bush in my back yard about 18-20 years ago in villa san jorge'.
good friend of mine found a couple made of alligator gar scales in NO east back in the 80s.
good friend of mine found a couple made of alligator gar scales in NO east back in the 80s.
Posted on 6/7/23 at 2:59 pm to Tigerpaw123
Those chips and partials are a good find. 
Posted on 6/7/23 at 4:18 pm to Yewkindewit
Washington Parish is where I found mine in 70s so guess Choctaw. Is there any better way of finding them except plowing etc? We have a bunch in a field in St stephens alabama now too.
Posted on 6/7/23 at 5:05 pm to TutHillTiger
Found one the other day that looked like it could have been a hoe.
Posted on 6/7/23 at 5:21 pm to highcotton2
Damn son
Posted on 6/7/23 at 6:06 pm to highcotton2
Probably used to butcher a mammoth. It’s crazy to think about the times and people using those tools.
Posted on 6/7/23 at 6:16 pm to bayoudude
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Probably used to butcher a mammoth. It’s crazy to think about the times and people using those tools.
Couple of pieces I found while picking cotton. Nutting stone and grooved axe head.
Random points.
These are probably true arrowheads for hunting passenger pigeons or birds.
Crazy how thin they were. Don’t know how you would hold something like that to chip it out.
This post was edited on 6/7/23 at 6:23 pm
Posted on 6/7/23 at 6:33 pm to highcotton2
It really shows how far they traded to find arrowheads in the Deep South so far away from workable stone
Posted on 6/7/23 at 7:24 pm to bbvdd
All from swla. Working on another one now. My parents were really into it.
This post was edited on 6/7/23 at 7:28 pm
Posted on 6/7/23 at 11:26 pm to bayoudude
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So far only pottery sherds in the creek
Sherds are so common around creeks because that's where momma sent the kids off to fetch water and that's where the kids dropped the pots and broke them.
Posted on 6/8/23 at 11:27 am to highcotton2
That's called a preform. They would take good material and bust off the parts they know they aren't going to use so they can gather a bunch of material and carry it without all the extra weight. There's no telling what it was going to be.
As for the OP, I've been hunting for a long time. When you've got a lot of debitage and whole or broken one's like that you're in somebody's 'factory'. You are likely in a camp site or small family 'village'. Think about what that looked like a thousand years ago and ask yourself, where would you put a house? Where would you dump the trash? Where would the fire be?
Find those and start figuring out the layout of the place, then start digging.
As for the OP, I've been hunting for a long time. When you've got a lot of debitage and whole or broken one's like that you're in somebody's 'factory'. You are likely in a camp site or small family 'village'. Think about what that looked like a thousand years ago and ask yourself, where would you put a house? Where would you dump the trash? Where would the fire be?
Find those and start figuring out the layout of the place, then start digging.
Posted on 6/8/23 at 11:41 am to Captain Rumbeard
This is why I keep coming back to the OB... now I want to go look along the creek.
Posted on 6/8/23 at 12:44 pm to arbe25
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All from swla
How they could have lived in the those mosquito plagued marshy/swampy areas back then is mind boggling.
Posted on 6/8/23 at 3:32 pm to CouldCareLess
My guess is they looked like Dutch in Predator covered in mud.
Posted on 6/8/23 at 4:06 pm to Blah Blah Blah Dude
I love that moment when I get to a place, and I can just feel it's there. I'll take a minute and look it over and start putting myself in that time then walk over to where I think it's most likely and start kicking leaves and dirt just to see if something obvious shows up.
I found a site in Arkansas on a deep spot on a creek that I knew flooded hard so there was no way there were camping down close to it but it had a spring coming down off a mountain that when I got to looking at it, I realized there was a flat spot up maybe fifty yards up the side of the mountain. That would have given them protection from flash floods as well as high ground and cover for defense as well as protection from wind and rain out of the NW. And it would have been practically impossible to attack them by climbing over the mountain and coming down from above. So I started climbing till I got up there. It was covered in deep leaves but I knew it was there. The spot was just too perfect. So I started kicking leaves and realized that under the mulch was an almost solid layer of debitage and hammer stones and brokens. And I am almost certain that I was the first person to ever find it. Found more stuff than we could carry out. I'd love to go back to that spot and get serious about it.
I've got a few spots that I've found like that. Gotta think like them.
I found a site in Arkansas on a deep spot on a creek that I knew flooded hard so there was no way there were camping down close to it but it had a spring coming down off a mountain that when I got to looking at it, I realized there was a flat spot up maybe fifty yards up the side of the mountain. That would have given them protection from flash floods as well as high ground and cover for defense as well as protection from wind and rain out of the NW. And it would have been practically impossible to attack them by climbing over the mountain and coming down from above. So I started climbing till I got up there. It was covered in deep leaves but I knew it was there. The spot was just too perfect. So I started kicking leaves and realized that under the mulch was an almost solid layer of debitage and hammer stones and brokens. And I am almost certain that I was the first person to ever find it. Found more stuff than we could carry out. I'd love to go back to that spot and get serious about it.
I've got a few spots that I've found like that. Gotta think like them.
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