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Post by gaetzchamp on Jul 7, 2010 19:08:27 GMT -5
This question goes out to all you arrowhead experts out there.
What is most effective way to find arrowheads when coming across a flaking ground? Do you just surface search or is digging/screening also recommended? Is it common to find full points at a flaking ground or do you mostly just find the flakes?
As Always, thanks,
Gaetz
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Jul 7, 2010 22:31:44 GMT -5
Howdy Gaetz. Oddly enough, in my experience. often points are fairly scarce at a chipping grounds and those you find are usually preforms ( blanks) brokes or defectives. Those I have found are usually just on the surface and associated with all the chips. I always watch for a good sit down spot in the shade where the Amerind could have a good view of the surrounding area ( They were very cautious folks and liked to watch for the approach of strangers). They tended to be into having a comfortable spot to sit and work. Most the perfect points I've found were hunting losses, in midden digs, or on lake shores where they tend to settle in the sand and gravel till they rest on the bedrock. Used to dig those out with a three pronged garden tiller......Mel
PS: Make sure you are on private land! The government types tend to take the antiquities act very seriously these days and hand out very heavy fines if they catch you even surface collecting on public land.
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Post by Woodyrock on Jul 8, 2010 0:13:09 GMT -5
Points found on flaking grounds are a pretty rare find. Years ago, as a boyscout, I found an extensive flaking ground near Mount Shasta. The flakes were over a foot deep. I found several broken preforms, although I did not know what they were at time, but not even a piece of a point, and, I searched through those flakes.
Now, if the flaking ground is where modern knappes have been working, you will find points. My wife, and I met a couple that had been to Glass Buttes, Oregon a few days before, and they had a whole shoebox full of near perfect points, they found in a flake pile in the camping area. Knappers today try to keep aboriginal flaking grounds uncontaminated by new flakes.
Like, Mel said, do not sieve, or dig for points on Federal land....or, in Oregon on your own land.
Woody
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