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Arrowhead hunting Louisiana
Posted on 7/31/16 at 6:29 pm
Posted on 7/31/16 at 6:29 pm
Anybody done this? I've been doing it off and on over the last few decades and have some decent pieces. Just wondering if anyone else here does this? I'm mostly NW corner of the state. Lots of rough crappy points. A few good ones. Found one big spearhead. Some pottery shards. But compared to some of the collections I've seen on youtube around here I'm a total novice. Just wondering what all you guys have done. Anything really cool? Suggestions on places to go?
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Posted on 7/31/16 at 6:42 pm to Captain Rumbeard
I have done some looking in the hilly/sandy areas of CenLa, but honestly, I haven't found much. I do know a few folks that say they find a pretty good amount, though.
if you have found spearheads, it sounds to me like you have done pretty damn well.
if you have found spearheads, it sounds to me like you have done pretty damn well.
Posted on 7/31/16 at 6:46 pm to Captain Rumbeard
I farm in the Tennessee Valley and have found some good pieces over the years. Best stuff will be found on land that is recently coverted to farmland. Old pastures or timber land. Land adjacent to rivers, creeks, or springs are best. High spots in fields or bluff side of river have been better for me. Really neat to pick up a stone and know you are the first person to touch it for hundreds or thousands of years since it was lost. Also crazy to think about the person who made it. The person who lost if had a name and a family and were once walking right where you are now.
Have you ever made something that someone will find a couple of thousand years from now. If you are like most of us probably not.
Have you ever made something that someone will find a couple of thousand years from now. If you are like most of us probably not.
This post was edited on 7/31/16 at 6:48 pm
Posted on 7/31/16 at 7:20 pm to highcotton2
As a kid I used to look for arrow heads along the lakes around Lake Charles. The docks at the Lake Charles country club apparently were a place where the Calcasieu Indians would spear fish with arrows. When the tide goes out we would filter through the mud and silt and find arrow head that were real small but in great shape. I'm not sure where they ended up. We probably found 30 of them the few times we tried.
Posted on 7/31/16 at 7:45 pm to tigereye58
This is a picture of a couple of pieces I found. 
This post was edited on 7/31/16 at 7:47 pm
Posted on 7/31/16 at 7:55 pm to Captain Rumbeard
Had a friend that lived on Toledo Bend near Zwolle. He used to find arrowheads on the shores of the lake all the time
Posted on 7/31/16 at 10:14 pm to Captain Rumbeard
Do it all the time here in GA. Have found some very interesting pieces lately.
Would love to see what you guys in LA are picking up
Would love to see what you guys in LA are picking up
Posted on 7/31/16 at 10:14 pm to highcotton2
Nutting stone and axe head?
Thise are killer man
Thise are killer man
Posted on 7/31/16 at 10:27 pm to upgrayedd
Found one in me back yard planting in me back yard
Posted on 7/31/16 at 10:35 pm to Drank
We have a camp in Noxubee(stinking water in indian speak)County, MS. Not too far from the site of The Dancing Rabbit Treaty signing in 1830 when the Choctaws gave up their rights to the land to the U.S. There is an old indian camp site on a bluff near the creek about 1/2 mile from our camp. If you go to the site after the fire break around the timber is disced. You can fill your pockets with pieces of pottery in a few minutes. I have found several arrowheads.
Posted on 7/31/16 at 10:38 pm to Captain Rumbeard
I would love to do that. I live around the Honey Island Swamp by the West Pearl, and I'm pretty sure there were tribes living here. I've hit the woods and the swamp looking snakes, but never really thought to search the ground for Native American stuff. My coolest thing I've ever found was at Chalmette Battlefield. When we were around 11-12 we'd ride our bikes over there. This was around the late '70s. There was a little ditch just a few feet wide.between the plantation home and the levee with a little bridge. Under the bridge we found a few marbles that were from around Civil War era. They were just spheres made from white marble, no colors or anything, and they were a bit chipped up. We just called them "musket balls" back then. A few years back we were at a Civil War museum in Tennessee and I saw some just like what we found. I really can't remember what ever happened to them. Would love to have them again.
This post was edited on 7/31/16 at 10:39 pm
Posted on 7/31/16 at 10:52 pm to Captain Rumbeard
Haven’t done any in Louisiana. Lived in Kosciusko, MS for six years and found a ton of them over there.
My dad worked in the forestry division of IP for 47 years and was always on the lookout for them. He was also our scoutmaster. He used to take the whole troop out to this bean field after they plowed to look for them.
He made up a bunch of display boxes with green felt backs and glued them down in different designs. He also had coffee cans full of them.
A couple of years ago he got in touch with the anthropology department at Miss State, asked if they'd have any interest and they did.
He and my mom took all of them over and donated them to State. He's took pictures of the displys and I saved them on his laptop. If y'all want me to post some of those pics, I'll do it.
My dad worked in the forestry division of IP for 47 years and was always on the lookout for them. He was also our scoutmaster. He used to take the whole troop out to this bean field after they plowed to look for them.
He made up a bunch of display boxes with green felt backs and glued them down in different designs. He also had coffee cans full of them.
A couple of years ago he got in touch with the anthropology department at Miss State, asked if they'd have any interest and they did.
He and my mom took all of them over and donated them to State. He's took pictures of the displys and I saved them on his laptop. If y'all want me to post some of those pics, I'll do it.
Posted on 7/31/16 at 10:52 pm to weadjust
Very cool man. Mississippi is loaded with amazing sites.
I just can't justify going there just to hunt for native artifacts
If I ever get back to visit the Vicksburg NPS I may spend a day or so extra also visiting the native sites there as well. As much shite as we give MS the history there is absolutely amazing
I just can't justify going there just to hunt for native artifacts
If I ever get back to visit the Vicksburg NPS I may spend a day or so extra also visiting the native sites there as well. As much shite as we give MS the history there is absolutely amazing
This post was edited on 7/31/16 at 10:53 pm
Posted on 7/31/16 at 11:39 pm to Drank
I rode my 4 wheeler on the trail/fire break through the old indian camp site for years and had no idea it was there. My mom who is in her late 70s was on the 4 wheeler with me one day when we passed the site she said stop. I said why. She said it looks like some indians used to live here. I was like WTF
She pointed out that the ground color had changed from a brown to a dark black in this area. According to her it was due to the indian's fires, cooking, and what not. Sure enough she was picking up indian pottery pieces within a couple of minutes. I doubt anybody outside my family even knows it's there.
She pointed out that the ground color had changed from a brown to a dark black in this area. According to her it was due to the indian's fires, cooking, and what not. Sure enough she was picking up indian pottery pieces within a couple of minutes. I doubt anybody outside my family even knows it's there.
Posted on 8/1/16 at 6:56 am to chinese58
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took pictures of the displys and I saved them on his laptop. If y'all want me to post some of those pics, I'll do it.
Do it!
Posted on 8/1/16 at 7:43 am to Captain Rumbeard
Yea. Live between Covington and Folsom. Found a perfect one in my chicken yard and then promptly lost it.
Posted on 8/1/16 at 8:05 am to Folsom
Try walking along creeks.. If you see little mounds of dirt common size is couple 55 gals not far from creeks. Its sort of a Indian Junk pile.
Posted on 8/1/16 at 10:27 am to Captain Rumbeard
I've got a good many. 5-6 Bird points, spear points, scrapers, grinding stones, pottery shards and incomplete or broken pieces. I need to build a display case or shadow box for them.
I spend a fair amount of time on farms, and I watch where I put my feet and notice things. I've picked up several when I was with someone walking right beside me.
I spend a fair amount of time on farms, and I watch where I put my feet and notice things. I've picked up several when I was with someone walking right beside me.
Posted on 8/1/16 at 6:12 pm to gorillacoco
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Do it!
I couldn't find them on his laptop. Wish I had taken the pictures and saved them to a memory stick. He says he may have them on one. Pretty sure I'll to go through 50 or 60 sticks to find them.
He put a binder together with pics & a little info. Here's pics of pics...
My memory ain't what it used to be. I really thought they were green backgrounds. There as re a couple more.
Posted on 8/1/16 at 8:34 pm to chinese58
I went to the Stock Yards in Ft. Worth last weekend. Once of the museums has some AMAZING collections.
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