Old School Hunting Heads

[Whitetail Addict]

I couldn't decide whether to post this here, or in the collector's forum. I thought more people would see it here, but if I guessed wrong, please feel free to move it.

I thought some of you might be interested in a few pictures of some of our collection. I haven't taken any pics of the things we've found in the past few years, but if anybody's interested in seeing more, I will.

It amazes me to think of the people that made, and used these things. Their lives depended in part, on their skill as bowyers, flint knappers and hunters.

I hope you enjoy them. If you have any of your own to share, please feel free to post pics, and thanks for looking.

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Just for the record, I know it's illegal in some places to take artifacts from where they're found. It's legal here in NY, with written permission of the landowner.

Bob

[Amberjack]

Very nice.  Some of those folks were clearly skilled craftsmen.

Every once in a while we'd turn up an arrowhead or other artifacts when we'd plow the garden in East Texas.  Always fascinated me to think that head had been lying there since someone had shot it or dropped it a century or more ago.

That said, I've sure left enough arrowheads behind myself that someone may find them years from now.

Thanks for sharing!

Jack

[Crittergetter]

Very very cool! A direct link to the past! Just awesome!
Really wish I knew of someplace close to look for some myself.

[grouseshooter002]

Bob,
Where these found in the Unadilla valley?

Thanks,
Rick

[Whitetail Addict]

As a matter of fact they were, Rick.          

After a lot of searching, we found a couple fields  that produce every year, and a few more that do occasionally, but there's a lot of looking involved.

Most of what my Girlfriend and I find, are broken parts and pieces of different things, but we manage to find a few that are intact now and then.

A lot of people I've talked to about it, think It's wrong to take them, but I think each year when the plow goes through, more of them get broken.


We write down where each was found, county, town and as close to the exact location as we can, so they have some documentation. That way they have some archeological value, and they're not just a collection of artifacts that nobody has any idea where they came from.

I'll post some more when I have time. Thanks.

Bob

[Whitetail Addict]

Originally posted by crittergetter:
Very very cool! A direct link to the past! Just awesome!
Really wish I knew of someplace close to look for some myself.

We seem to have the most luck here, in plowed ground along streams, but we've found them in eroded stream banks, and even in the creek beds at times.

I actually found one of my nicest at the mouth of a woodchuck den, on high ground along a stream. The woodchuck excavated it and it sat right there on top with the other stones.

I've checked out a hundred holes since, but haven't found another one like that. I guess I just got lucky.

Bob

[Keefer]

I collect them as well and I know some people might think it's not legal to pick them up but to me it's no difference then picking up a sea shell off the beach or a piece or trash someone threw on the ground.. Just put it in your pocket and keep looking and ad it to your collection...Too many folks thinks it's wrong but hey I pay my share of tax's for living here and if I find one it go's home with me..Good find you have there ..  

[ChuckC]

I think, no matter what you do in life, some folks will disagree with it.  It's what we do as a species.  
ChuckC

I have a few arrows that I shot through deer and some that completely missed that I never found back. If you find them, you have my permission to pick them up.  I have a few myself, three flints and one obsidian spear head.

[Izzy]

Nice collection. Ive only found a couple fragments in NY. Ive found some other good stuff in other states.

[Whitetail Addict]

Thanks for the comments everybody, I appreciate it.

Bob