Arrowheads

[Fossilman]

I miss hunting for arrowheads! Every state has different laws on what we can find..Montana and North Dakota is was ok to pickup odds and ends,as long as you reported the great finds,like pottery and the such....
Here in Oregon its a straight no no-period!!! Leave it all lay where you found it,pitures only...

[Fossilman]

Feb 7, 2013 19:52:00 GMT -5 jamesp said:

Never heard of such.That is what is good about long distance.We get to see weird stuff that happens way far away.Those are old i bet.Good luck,wow.Who would figure they would copy a heart.Or come up w/that shape.I will do research on that shape.thanks for sharing those Fossilman.

Hey let me know what you come up with-never to old to learn something new.....

[jamesp]

Collecting around all the construction sites around Atlanta is a dream.Many times you are lucky if you can get a rain before they cut deep and pile the artifact layer too deep to ever recover anything.Golf courses are the best prep for artifacting.And they are built near/along water everytime.Plus we harvest timber quickly since they crop it every 10-20 years.Another good land disturbance opportunity.Farming damages many artifacts.Plowing Georgia red clay puts a lot of pressure on rocks/artifacts often breaking them.
The site these were found on were not damaged by the plow because a point of land jutting into a swamp would be robbed of all produce by the swamp critters.

[bhiatt]

Very cool fossilman. Thanks for sharing your pics. I cant get enough of old time artifacts. I grew up right next to this location. It was literally in my back yard. Our neighbor had his basement loaded with stuff he found in his families field. Bad thing is they put a interstate right in the grounds. If you ever drove to St Louis you might of seen the big mound its right next to the interestate.
cahokiamounds.org/explore/

[jamesp]

Cahokia is a big part of the mound culture Brad.I think it and other mound cultures heavily influenced our Etowah Mound settlement down here in Georgia(or visa versa).All the black flint arrowheads you see in the pic are from flint mined from within 40 miles of Etowah mounds and brought over 100 mles to Atlanta where i found those points.Follow the path of the rock and you will learn a lot about their forum.Ohio flint was found at Etowah regularly.So those guys partied together.
And that black flint did not come by boat cause all those rivers flow SW from Etowah.Atlanta is SE.So all the black flint we find here in Atlanta is brought in on foot.As soon as we find a site that has been cleared around Atlanta that looks a good indian hangout we keep an eye out for black flint chips.It is instant sign of indian inhabitation.Goes for the brown/orange flint category too(from south of Atlanta 100 miles).It too was brought on foot since all Atlanta rivers flow south.

[n8hounder]

Wow man... just...wow!