Arrowheads / artifacts??

Anyone on here look for arrowheads or other artifacts?

I have family on Lake of the Ozarks and Im planning on making a trip just for arrowhead hunting.

Post pics if you have some.

No

A few I found recently. I look everywhere, have since I was a kid but only have a couple fruitful spots.

I'm not real good at finding whole arrowheads where I hunt but I find a lot of pieces. I did find a cool translucent colored one a couple of years ago. I think I know where some old camps are but I've never been serious enough to actually dig for them.

Dang that one on the right is awesome.

I have never been into much at all until recently, but Im pumped to go find some. It will be like shed hunting for things that are 1000's of years old.

I had to edit this...I have never found one or even looked for them

I found this spear point while walking along a newly-plowed field. An anthropologist said it dates from the Woodland period, circa 1,000-2,000 years ago. It would been used with an atlatl to hunt larger game. The pinkish streak is from being heat-treated in hot sand.

Thats awesome!

What type of terrain? Creeks? Fields?

Very cool.

Sweet! Kansas find? I have read Kansas has some good arrowhead hunting.

Edge of a creek. Look for spots that were out of the wind. Texas Indians slept out on the ground so they liked wind breaks. Don�t expect to find one just laying out completely exposed. I pick up and flip each little piece of flint I find, sometimes you won�t even know you found one till it�s in your hand.

Yes, the field was alongside a creek with high banks, likely a good hunting area years ago.

Here�s the thing I don�t get. They used to use that video of that crying Indian trying to make litterbugs feel bad. They littered like crazy. Arrowheads and whatnot all over the place. Graffiti all over cave walls. They were out of control.

This is one of my favorites. Didn�t know what I had until I pulled it from a crevice in a creek and brushed it off. Bout same size as the one in my first pic.

One of my friends goes regularly and she has found 1000's of different ones over the years.

The best times to go are semi-early in the morning or later in the afternoon when the sun is at a lower angle. This makes the flint shiney. Then you go check out the shiney rocks. There a lots of places on Falcon, on the bluffs, where you can find lots of atlatl points, but many are broken after having been stepped on by livestock.

Looks like another on the ground. It looks like the butt of an arrowhead between the thumb and pointer finger

Quick question: Can any of you tell the difference between an arrowhead that is a thousand years old and one that was made last week?

Your right. Never noticed that.

Right answer!

Because you are only out looking for 1000 lb ape-like hominid.

You suck at that BTW.

Experienced people can from the patina.

Iroquois used this area as a fertile hunting ground, even though they were from Alabama.

Chert from quarries in the vicinity of Dover, TN were prized for shaping weapons. It has been found in Ohio, Illinois, Tennessee and Kentucky.

I have thousands of points and artifacts. Some from N Louisiana but most from South Texas.

I'm in a FB group called Alabama Arrowheads and Artifacts. It is amazing what some of these people are finding here. Too bad you can't pick them up on TVA property. The banks of the Tennessee River are loaded with them, especially after this years historic flood.

between here and commerce the south sulphur river is a common search area, apparently they find a lot right after a good rain. there is even a parking area on 50 at the bridge so folks can hike down and look.

Thanks, I always wonder how it was done.

Ya do know that the "Indian" in the commercial, Iron Eyes Cody, was not an Indian. He was Italian.

The North American indians were the low achievers of all American Indians, or as I am want to call them, displaced Asians. The "Indians" of central and south America were the high achievers and the successful Indians, i.e., displaced Asians.

I agree. Great find.

I've walked the banks of the lakes and rivers here in NEOK quite a bit but have never found a full arrowhead. I've found some stuff that had been chiseled on but that's about it. Still looking though

I've found a few but this kid has the eye. No telling how many she has found

I have a few arrowheads and a couple of tools. One tool is a scrapper, the other possibly part of a tomahawk.

They find a bunch along the Arkansas I believe, including bison skulls.

SWEET!

Haven't gotten into arrowheads. I spend most of my time searching for gold coins. Here's a batch I found last week.

Do those say Ceasers Palace?

I have found about a handful in the hill country. My boys and I now just enjoy fossil hunting along the red river.

There are some nappers out there that do a real good job making them. Most to them us a brass plumbing cap which leaves some gold traces which can be seen under magnification. If the napper is real good and uses a hammer stone and a deer horn they can be real hard to spot. You know they are not changing the age of the stone just just the shape of it.

Is it Coach White's in-laws that have some sort of alien burial ground in their back yard?

My dad would knap with a piece of deer antler. His points were awesome. He could knock one out in no time.

There was a guy that lived in Waco that could make a copy of anything you had for a price. He wore buck skins, had a tee pee that he made from deer skins. It had a fire pit in the center with the weather flap on top. With a fire going in the center the smoke would draft out the top leaving no smoke in the tee pee. Everyone told him he was just born to late in time, he missed his calling. He would make arrowheads and have the professors at Baylor guess their age. He would tell them he just made it and they would say no way. He would them make one in front of them with the deer horn. He was a cool guy

I know a gut that can go to his mailbox in the drive way and find arrowheads........almost. I cant find one to save my life.

His mother has a collection that was featured in the Smithsonian at onetime.

He went fishing with a guide at E.V. Spence lake once, They didn't catch many fish but he said that guide had a impressive collection.

That was coming from a guy that had seen a lot of flint.

Some regions are just loaded with artifacts. My nephews were waiting for the school bus for the first time when they moved to MO and found several arrowheads right there at the bus stop.

This says more about the professors than the guy making the new heads.

I think them modern day arrowhead makers are called Knappers.

Yep. My grandparents would hit that spot. They had a cigar box full of artifacts. Arrow heads, beads, and a pipe. The stem was broke off the pipe, but they had both pieces of it.

The two on the left were made by a mapper and I bought them. The necklace is one that I found in a plowed field. I have found others but it was the best one.

Some things have to almost be seen in person to appreciate the quality of the piece,

I headed out to eastern CO in search of some artifacts. I ended up with a few flakes and one decent find thats either a scraper, or a bi-face preform.

The recent replicas are usually a little too "perfect." I have several points, grinding stones, scrapers, etc. I picked up as a kid in the 50's/60's while hoeing and moving irrigation pipe on peanut fields here on our family farm. My Dad gave a cigar box full of Indian artifacts to his uncle, a Texas Ranger at the time, which he had picked up as a kid in the Comyn area between Dublin and De Leon. That was before my Dad went into the Army/Army Air Corps in 1941. I should probably try to get those back from the uncle's heirs while I'm still alive... I doubt that any of the true heirs to those artifacts are still around....

I find em here locally

A couple of years back a cousin and myself were out at the lease in Ballinger and were walking back to the truck in a plowed field. We were talking and he asked “have you ever found any arrowheads out here” and just at that moment we looked down and there was a arrowhead. I took him out to the lease during deer season and he had a hard time sitting in a stand and got out and looked for arrowheads and found another one, it was a completely different style from the first.

I know a fellow who did his post graduate work at A&M. He told me they have points by the 5 gallon bucket load donated by families of deceased point collectors.
He assessed my father-in-law ‘s collection from Dawson country. Points from as recent as a few hundred years to over 6000.
He gave two points he knapped from obsidian. Beautiful work , but they look new, I should bury them in the mud for a few years, 😀

Mo

I have found about 500 unbroken points, I also have found a full Clovis

illinois above tenkiller should be good along the banks. catch it at low water and walk or canoe it.

The only thing I've ever found was what looks to be the leg of a clay pot on the side of the Nechez river years ago. I've never found an arrowhead.

Nechez or Neches?

I'm a dork. Neches.

Let's see a pic of that clovis!

Never found one. When I was a kid seems like all the other kids in town found them but not me. There's a few places near home that fit the googled description of where to look but my point finding is even worser than my fish catching.
20-25 years ago DW and I met a traveling bridge construction worker who showed off his collection that he picked out of the dirt working. Absolutely amazing, most weren't broken and they were like works of art. Everything from a quarter the size of a postage stamp to spear points plenty big enough to work on a mammoth or mastodon.

Awesome!! Did you find it in Texas? Digging or surface find?

That is impressive. Have you had an appraisal done on it? If it's truly a Clovis, some of those are worth >$20,000.

That point would probably grade at G-4, maybe 5. G-10+ are the points that bring those types of values. While that Clovis is very collectible, it's probably worth less than $1,000 imo.

I have not hunted for arrowheads since I was a kid growing up in Boerne, TX. My kids like to hunt fossils. At home they have a flower bed below their window and we call it the fossil cemetery because they put all their fossils, petrified wood and crystals in their.

Surface find in blown field in Gaines county, I agree with fouzman on the grading, I’m just proud to have a whole Clovis in my collection

wow
how did you see that in those rocks

bet you are good at fingerprints

that is some really good work
was that from 1 spot?

. This just came up in conversation at work. Here are three of the smallest I have ever found.

What type of terrain are you guys finding them in? Creeks? Desert type? Ag fields?

I find mine in creek beds with gravel after a rain.

This, but also plowed fields. Crankn, I will tell you that I looked each of the three times I was in Colorado and never found a damn thing. I don’t know why it’s different but seemed to be.

Thays not good. Im going to give a good try while im sill here and see how it plays out.

We have thousands of 'points' like these, except for the last photo. Photo #4 is a drill. Too bad the tip was broken. Still a beautiful piece of functional art.

GEEZ, Fouz!

What part of the state and what type of terrain?

The giant white one in that box is a killer. I love the looks of those.

Upper right corner in the box, is that a double tip head or a shaft scraper?

Dang Fouz, its amazing you get any deer hunting in with a collection like that.

I've missed many an afternoon deer hunt because I found a hot area, Chris! Crankin101 99% of our collection has been found in Webb County, TX over the past 20 years. 1% are from Claiborne Parish, La. up to far SW Arkansas. No digging required in South Texas. Washes, dry creek beds, hilltops, etc. Anywhere you find lots of flint flakes and little white shells. 1% are from Claiborne Parish, La. up to far SW Arkansas.

Thanks Fouz. My daughter is in Erath county and Im trying to point her in the right direction.

I'm going out tomorrow in Euless depending on how much rain if anyone wants to join. Nobody looks in dfw.

A few of my favorites found in Webb County, Northwest of Laredo.




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And my favorite of all, found in southern Arizona East of Ajo.

In the interest of keeping the thread alive, a little eye candy.

Check out the compression flaking on the last two. Five of the pieces in the first photo are petrified wood.

I was trying to keep this thread going. I searched for 7 hours and didnt find a thing.

I haven't found any in months

I put in over 50 hours but I finally found one.

Nice, very unique looking point.

wow
beautiful
it was laying there
right on top

It was partially covered. I flipped it over like I did hundreds of other rocks but this one happened to be the right one

My nephew found one a half hour later. Cool little bird point.

Man, great this thread came back up. I was digging through some boxes of my dad's old stuff and found a couple great artifacts this afternoon. I'll post them up in a bit.

Found this today on a wind blown hill

We were told the bird point my nephew found was a Hopewell and one of if not the first point style in Missouri. Something like 1100 AD

Found a handful of broke ones yesterday.

Found this one today. Hope to go tomorrow after the rain.

nice one!

Wore out Montell, good find

I thought it was older

I found a flipping drill today, I can't believe it.

Put in a bunch of hours and miles, I'll post some pics throughout the next few days.

I think that's a flake knife.

so do you follow the river?
thats great

Nice one!

Is that an Apamanche throwing star? Nice work!

Perd?

Picture doesn’t do it justice but found a nice one after our little bit of rain.

TTT

I have found some nice artifacts since moving to Missouri, now Im looking at moving down to the Stephenville area and there are no public spots to search. Im gonna have to change my addiction to bass fishing.

Early morning or late afternoon sun can help you find them. The sun light at a low angle makes them shine.

My Dad found one of the early Folsom Points when he was a kid around Miami, NM. He had a nice collection of various arrowheads from the area and from Raton, NM. I need to see where they might have gone.

I also took an anthropology and archeology at the University of New Mexico and we learned how to do pressure flaking with obsidian and deer antlers. It is a definite art.

A lot of nice finds in this post.

My neighbor at our farm has thousands of arrowheads. Said he used to hunt them with the same enthusiasm as he has for hunting.

He said he's found some on our farm. Guess I should try to find some.

JR

Am I supposed to be offended by this topic?
Are sacred burial grounds being disturbed?

"You Mother-blankerzzzz"!!!

Doh! Just kidding...Rock on, shoot on, collect on! IN65

...!!!

I used to but now I have to look for relics from Guardians and Commanders and I'm not really sure what to look for.

Bottom one is not an arrowhead but a doodle rock lol they scratched designs in it

Those are some killers.

What type of terrain are you digging? Old river beds?

Mostly mounds
We also do alot of surface hunting

Do you have any pics of the mounds from a distance? Are they 10' higher than the surrounding ground? How wide are they?

People talk about them here, but its all so over grown I dont think most could even be found.

You have to have an eye for it to find the mounds I've been digging for 20 years and can spot midden from a mile away The mounds we dig are slight humps only about a foot taller than the rest of the ground. They are about 15 yards by 20 yards long and in some mounds I'm digging down about 8 feet deep. I don't have pics of mounds on this phone but I can take some later.

There are 3 mounds in this field. Just in front of the cactus you can see the first mound coverd in midden. There is a space of about 40 yards between that mound and the other mounds. I have not dug these mounds but have surfaced hunted them and found points on the surface

WOW! So subtle I would have no idea they were there.

Do you know the purpose of the mounds?

This is the terrain I’m looking in, from the ridges to the creek bottoms

The mounds are where they built their fires. They are made of ashes from the fires, "midden"/ non flint rocks, and of course arrowheads and dirt. This is just my guess but I think they had fires going year round to cook game and they either cooked them whole and left the points in the animals or they discarded the arrowheads in the fire/mound. I cannot understand why they would throw away such beautiful blades and other artifacts but as I'm digging through all this ash and midden/rocks there they are.

I have only found a handful but this is one I found in the Dallas area while chasing Sandbass this spring.

Man. Those are amazing finds. You guys are certainly clued in on what/where to look. Y’all ever invite rookies along for the hunt?

Yes, It’s the Landona Fossil area. Pay attention to the sand bars. One of my family members goes there a lot and they find a lot if arrowheads, shark’s teeth and assorted fossils.

My first drill

They grow after the rain. It's the best time to surface hunt

Grew up in a town up in DammYankeeLand with a fair but slow river running through it. I swear, every kid in town except me found arrowheads along the banks of that river. My luck hasn't changed after moving here to the Heart of America.

Wife & I on trip up north to visit relatives and friends overnighted in upstate NY. Went to hotel bar for nightcap, started talking to bridge construction worker. Discussion got around to his workday hobby of collecting arrow heads and spear points. Brought out a couple dozen display boxes, must have had couple hundred all nicely nested in cotton batting. Said that was just the collection from the current area job sites and has thousands more at home. Absolutely amazing the craftsmanship and artwork in those arrow heads and spear points. Finds them working the dirt where the bridges cross waterways.

Found one full one that’s been beat up in the creeks for years and a broke one, I’m posting to show some of the terrain I search.

you ever stop to think how many indians there must have been to find indian arrowheads all over this country and how much they traveled. I am amazed at how many I found has a kid just in south Arkansas in the bottoms.

ttt

Ill post some more in a few

Found this fire popped corner tang yesterday

If you want to plan a trip to see a great arrowhead collection, take a side trip to Navarro College in Corsicana, Texas. The Pierce collection inside the Cook Center has a fabulous collection of more than 44,000 arrowheads. You can also see fossils, a Civil War exhibit and a planetarium.

Found these out looking for sheds!

A buddy of mine inherited a ranch in S Texas. Over the years, he found hundreds of arrowheads and tools on the ranch.

He then started building furniture and display cases from bull mesquite trees (off the ranch) he would cut and have milled. He had a coffee table with a display underneath glass, several displays that were framed and hung on the wall. He even lost a king size bed he made from that mesquite.

He was moving and hired a moving company to move all his furniture in a storage facility for about a month. He got a call that his unit was broke into and all that was left was a baby picture of him sitting in the middle of the unit. Still makes me sick to my stomach to this day. Storage facility had no camera's and moving company had no answers. It had to be one of the guys that moved his stuff into that unit and came back to steal it. I'm pissed again just typing this and it wasn't even my stuff.

Hang those *****

NICE!

This year has been slow for me compared to 2022

I found the point and my nephew found the broke drill 20 yards away. That was spring of 2022

Very lucky on these, a critter dug them up for me...

Love this thread, I found a couple in New Mexico but haven't had much luck around here.

Found this war hatchet many years ago near Fredericksburg. You can see from some of the marks on it where it was tied to the handle - they all stop on the same plane toward the bottom of the picture. The back is weighted - material was left on to give it more heft. It weighs just over 1/4 lb. I'm going to do a photo slab/stack of it and some spearheads that will show all the detail.

People are finding a lot of arrowheads on the Sulphur River in Ladonia along with fossils. Fun place to hunt. I found one arrowhead out there, but have only been once. Best to go after a good flooding rain.

These two pieces from where they used to knapp off to make their tools. Found between Pontotoc and Cherokee.

Added cow and deer skulls for size comparison.

Ancient Indian novelty device?

Which one?

Someone called the white one a "Wadlow blade". I know nothing about any of them except what people on facebook have to say

Just looked it up... looks like it could be a Wadlow preform

Tiny drill of some kind

Thats cool, I like finding stuff like that

We dug a little bit this morning and found a few. Of course she found the point of the day

What the heck man. I barely find that much a year and after 100 miles of walking.

I seen Texas has a bunch of dig sites you can pay to access. I might try that sometime

Never found one and can't begin to guess how much time I've wasted looking. As a kid I think I was the only kid in town who didn't have a collection. The area's got several creeks with large fields next to them. Been over them time and time again when they're freshly plowed/harrowed both dry and after rain. I think they hear me coming and bury themselves deeper.

great

bottom one looks like a tomahawk

When we were kids Dad would take over to Indiana in the spring after farmers plowed their fields. If it rained recently all the better... We'd find a few everytime we went... The closer the field was to the river the better... Probably had 50-75 at one time... Mom probably threw them away with my baseball cards when I went away for college... Dan

I found a couple tools and some cool pieces today

These things are basic but some of my favorite tools. They are only worked on one side.

TTT for another season.

I did find a scraper while hanging my treestand in November

Found this one a while back. Finally been so much rain here my prime areas are under water.

And a cool little bird point.

Heck yeah! You guys will have some great surface hunting down there pretty soon.

Man, I would be stoked to stumble upon 1 or 2 of those, true piece of American / Indian history.

Found my first one today, completely by accident.

Very nice.

Never found one. Bugged the carp out of me when I was a kid. Seemed like every other kid in town found them. Guess I just don't have the eye for it.

Best times are when the sun is lower on the horizon. Look for the "shiny rocks." If it shines walk over and check it out.

edit: Often if you are out wandering around you may find piles of rocks that may still have some char on them or there is a pile that really doesn't look like it belongs there. That's a "midden," basically a trash pile. Find one of those and the odds of finding "shiny rocks" go up a bunch. Also bear in mind that the terrain today is not what it looked like a hundred or more years ago. That 50 year old oak tree probably wasn't there when the Indians were around.

We used to find lots of obsidian arrow heads up around Lassen National Park outside of Redding, CA. My folks had a cabin up by the park and we would find arrowheads along the banks of Bailey Creek which ran by the cabin. After a good flood and the creek subsided is when we would wonder up and down the creek finding arrow heads and tools used to scrape hides and stuff.. My younger sister has the collection nowadays. I miss those days of just wandering along a creek fishing and finding stuff like arrow heads.

Did the Indians recycle their arrowheads? How long did it take them to make one? How many did they carry in their quiver? Was there an arrowhead maker like there was a blacksmith? Same goes for the bows, shafts and feathers.

Quiver is a European thing. Natives carried the extra arrows with the bow hand.


If they we're quicker then a guy I saw at a gun show, napping an arrow head. Less then 30minutes each.

I would love to see one. Anything like an Ishi point? He came wondering out of the woods not too terribly far from there.

Lots of history in Western Ok for sure about Indians

Well leethefishking I will get ahold of my sister in Wyoming and see what what she can find...she is the keeper of all family history stuff...:) I moved around too much in my younger days so family stuff was safer with her...:) I had totally forgotten about the Ishi story.

Always look for flint chips

Even the tiny ones because you never know what's under the ground

arrowhead makers; yup. great grandma made arrowheads for the tribe

If you are ever up by Table Rock and you want to see a HUGE collection of points and other stone tools, visit the Golden Pioneer Museum located in Golden MO. They have thousands of them from all over the US and Central America on display.

Wow, that is very interesting. I bet she would have been a great interview or a story for a documentary book about her life.

Thats cool!

Ill have to check that out. Richards Relic Shack in Lake Ozerk has a really good collection as well, its kind of a little dumpy looking place but the artifacts are amazing.

The Golden Museum is not a fancy place either, if you drove by it and didn't know what was inside you'd probably keep on going. There are so many points on display that after a while I got bored with looking at them. They have some jade stuff from Central America that are works of art.

i've been told a few stories. one is about a great great uncle. everybody remembers the alamo. after its fall, houston hunted santa anna down. houston used a white and an Indian tracker to track santa anna.. per the story, the indian was my great great uncle. houston was pronounced, who-stone

i've been told a few stories. one is about a great great uncle. everybody remembers the alamo. after its fall, houston hunted santa anna down. houston used a white and an Indian tracker to track santa anna.. per the story, the indian was my great great uncle. houston was pronounced, who-stone

Your whole family history would be quite the historical read.