Indian artifact hunting

[yetti462]

Last year, the only ones down stairs, currently studying.
9 mm for comp.

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I'd love to find a celt

 

[Mij]

I'd love to find a celt

I’m…..well older, I’ve got between 25-30 pieces, been searching my whole life. I’ve even got a Clovis type made from Indiana stone. I’ve found If your outside game hunting just keep your eyes on the area around your feet. You’ll see’em. I can’t imagine how many pieces hunters must step on or over while chasing deer n rabbits. It’s INDIANA …….

 

[indiucky]

Reason number 327 why it's awesome to be a river bank Hoosier lol....

"have you ever noticed all of those videos where guys find 20 arrowheads a day and drawl in a very similar accent, "welp...dun foundt 25 perfect arraheads today on my walk" ....it's because they live along the Ohio or Mississippi river valleys..." lol

 

[Mij]

Reason number 327 why it's awesome to be a river bank Hoosier lol....

"the reason you don't find arrowheads is you don't live here" lol

To cool, I like the color they give New Mexico. Some of the most historically important finds in archaeology come from there.

 

[indiucky]

To cool, I like the color they give New Mexico. Some of the most historically important finds in archaeology come from there.

Instead of "Clovis" points they should be called "Chesapeake" points lol....

 

[indiucky]

them: yeah artifacts are cool and all...but I bet there ain't no cool Appalachian murder ballads about Clovis points, pills, whisky and rock shelters......

Tyler Childress: hold my beer....

 

[Leadeye]

The gardener found these while scavenging for rocks on the ground we bought this spring.

 

[indiucky]

The gardener found these while scavenging for rocks on the ground we bought this spring.

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Nice inclusion on that top blade....all Harrison county flint lol....

is upper right sandstone????

 

[yetti462]

My most recent find. I'm always looking, gravel bars while fishing, skid roads, garden etc.... one of these days I'm gonna walk the banks of the Ohio, I have permission and a place to go. Just gotta find the time.

 

[Leadeye]

Nice inclusion on that top blade....all Harrison county flint lol....

is upper right sandstone????

Yes, a local historian and friend thought it might be something used to crack nuts. We bought this place and had it cleaned up as it was a drug colony. Nature is taking it back over after scraping everything off and putting it in 40 yard cans.

 

[yetti462]

Check out leatherwoodcrafts YouTube channel. He lives a few miles west of me. Very educational as he studied archeology. He knows the material they're made from a names of all the points, buck creek, theebs, etc... time period archaic, Paleo, woodland etc...

Worth the watch, very educational.

 

[Hoosier Carry]

Check out leatherwoodcrafts YouTube channel. He lives a few miles west of me. Very educational as he studied archeology. He knows the material they're made from a names of all the points, buck creek, theebs, etc... time period archaic, Paleo, woodland etc...

Worth the watch, very educational.

I have watched a few of those!

The point you showed is very cool. Is there a name for that point?

 

[Hoosier Carry]

For example: when you find a piece, lets say the one I showed, are you able to decipher whether it come from “clovis people”? I know I need books to learn but its fun to study how and when this artifact was used. Time stamed sort of? How close can we narrow this down to a story or culture?

 

[smokingman]

I have not found much in the way of stone artifact's.
That said I have found belt buckles, buttons, and plenty of lead ball around my property. During the great depression the entire area and fields near my place were a tent city. Even found a belt buckle pre dating the civil war.

There used to be a narrow gauge rail road that ran through my property down a ways to an old coal mine(not called coal creek for nothing it is half lined with coal).

A metal detector was used for said finds.

 

[Magyars]

Last year, the only ones down stairs, currently studying.
9 mm for comp.

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Nice!
Mines not quite as good, but it's still sharp....well, at least half of it.

 

[Magyars]

For example: when you find a piece, lets say the one I showed, are you able to decipher whether it come from “clovis people”? I know I need books to learn but its fun to study how and when this artifact was used. Time stamed sort of? How close can we narrow this down to a story or culture?

Clovis "points" are rare in this area.....they are distinctive because of the flutes

 

[Pepi]

Worked with a guy many years ago that found an old Indian pipe. The pipe was made from stone and had a picture that appeared to be a deer on the front of it. He claimed it appraised for 5k

 

[Mij]

Nice!
Mines not quite as good, but it's still sharp....well, at least half of it.

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Don’t know, I think it’s a nice example, from the photo it looks sharper than my example.

 

[indiucky]

Clovis "points" are rare in this area.....they are distinctive because of the flutes

Finding them may be but I wouldn't say they are rare....I've got quite a few Clovis blades (knives) found locally...they don't get the love because no flute but they have the over flaking unique to Clovis....

the glaciers didn't get this far south (into southern Indiana) and the Clovis people were all over southern Indiana because we have the best chert in the world....

Here's a survey done by the feds for southern Indiana...very cool and worth the read....

http://npshistory.com/publications/usfs/region/9/hoosier/prehistory/sec1.htm

 

[indiucky]

Examples of Clovis artifacts without flutes.....