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re: Arrowhead & Pottery sherd hunting St. Francisville, LA area
Posted on 2/7/24 at 7:59 pm to Lonnie Utah
Posted on 2/7/24 at 7:59 pm to Lonnie Utah
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Not 100% true. You simply trace the artifacts back upstream to you find where they're eroding from the bank. There's your site location.
Not 100% true. What if another Indian found a point 1000 years ago that was 1000 years earlier, carried it around with him, and dropped it in a creek 500 miles away.
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Posted on 2/7/24 at 8:07 pm to eatpie
Have you checked out Thompson Creek?
Posted on 2/8/24 at 1:59 pm to deeprig9
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Not 100% true. What if another Indian found a point 1000 years ago that was 1000 years earlier, carried it around with him, and dropped it in a creek 500 miles away.
I know where you're coming from with this DeepRig, and believe it or not, that happened. For example, several years ago on a cross country trip our family stopped at Hopewell Culture National Historic site in Chillicothe, Ohio. The have Obsidian points there that came from the Obsidian cliffs in Yellowstone National Park. That's over 1900 miles away.
Additionally, artifacts from Pipestone NM in western Minnesota (we've also been there), have been found all over North America. They've found artifacts from this site from Manitoba to Macon, GA. Pipestone is one of only 2 places in the country were catlinite can be found (the other is in Wisconsin). Catlinite is a very soft rock that can be carved with the most basic of tools. As the name of the site implies, Native Americans used to shape it into pipes for smoking during various ceremonies. (If you remember the scene in Dances with Wolves where Kicking Bird asks Costner if he'd finished his pipe, the stone came from Pipestone. The location of the movie took place in South Dakota.)
So, it happened. By using techniques like x-ray fluorescence scientists can tell the origin of many rocks. This gives insite to trade routes and communications between tribes pre-Columbus. When I say that just because an artifact is no longer in situ, that doesn't mean all of it's archeological value is lost, I'm speaking the truth.
This post was edited on 2/8/24 at 2:02 pm
Posted on 2/8/24 at 4:18 pm to Lonnie Utah
That blade appears to be broken in half. Wonder if they did that in some kind of ceremony?
Posted on 2/8/24 at 4:27 pm to highcotton2
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Found this little guy in a cornfield.
Same. Two times in cornfields. White One close to Bayou Macon in 2022; the other Brown One was in the Lake Bruin area when I was in high school around 97 when I was checking cotton and shortcutting through a corn field. It’s a rush finding an artifact the ancients made for pure survival.
Posted on 2/10/24 at 7:30 am to highcotton2
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That blade appears to be broken in half. Wonder if they did that in some kind of ceremony?
From what I've read, most likely.
Posted on 2/10/24 at 2:11 pm to Lonnie Utah
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From what I've read, most likely.
My dad found a cache of 5 blades that were wide as your hand and about 10” long and they had all been broken cleanly in half. They were in one hole that he found while turning land beside a creek.
Posted on 2/10/24 at 9:10 pm to Lago Gato
The piece of the end maybe pre Indian
Posted on 2/11/24 at 11:13 am to highcotton2
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My dad found a cache of 5 blades that were wide as your hand and about 10” long and they had all been broken cleanly in half. They were in one hole that he found while turning land beside a creek.
Did they look similar to this? (This is from the same Ohio site I spoke of earlier.)
Posted on 2/12/24 at 6:12 am to Lonnie Utah
Anyone know of any sites in St. Tammany?
Posted on 2/12/24 at 10:39 am to Tigerlaff
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Anyone know of any sites in St. Tammany?
The Abita river near the abita springs trailhead museum is known for producing points and pottery sherds is some quantity. The easy access spots are quickly picked over. If you are willing to work your way upriver or downriver from the easy accesses you can find some stuff.
Posted on 2/16/24 at 12:25 pm to eatpie
Thanks!
Posted on 2/19/24 at 7:51 pm to eatpie
Guy that works with me had a small spring behind his house and back in the summer dug it out to make a small pond (think NASCAR size) he was back there this weekend and the rain had washed some of the raw dirt around. He found 4 arrowheads laying around. Brought two of them to work today. Pretty nice pieces.
The Crown bag was his not the Indians.
The Crown bag was his not the Indians.
This post was edited on 2/19/24 at 8:49 pm
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