Native American Artifacts I've Found
 

Been hunting artifacts for about 4 years. *Here is only part of my collection. *I have numerous others, mostly broken but others that are perfect but don't have pics yet. *Tsub and I got to talking about this in another post. *I told him I would post up some pics....enjoy! *

My first on bottom right:
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d7...S2010022-3.jpg

I found the one on the right about 10 feet out my back door! *I nearly passed out in dis-belief! *Then I walked over to mom and dad's hous and found the one on the left 5 minutes later...still haven't found another on our property despite intense searching *::)
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d7...S2010006-3.jpg

This one I found the tip first...days later and several feet away I found the rest - still some material missing but I'm 99.9% sure these pieces went together!
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d7...S2010027-2.jpg

Tomahawks:
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d7...S2010032-2.jpg
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d7...S2010029-1.jpg

A nicely bevelled knife I'm real proud of:
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d7...y/S2010038.jpg
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d7...y/S2010039.jpg

Neat little point - yes I bite my nails - don't be a hater!
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d7...S2010009-3.jpg

Miscellanous:
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d7...S2010025-3.jpg
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d7...S2010010-4.jpg
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d7...S2010020-3.jpg
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d7...S2010014-5.jpg
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d7...S2010012-4.jpg
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d7...S2010044-1.jpg
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d7...S2010016-3.jpg

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Awesome finds Blue!

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Great find and great pics. Blue.



But I still enjoy those pics of your bench seat. ;D

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very cool.

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Nice stuff, very nice. From around here about the only remenets found are pottery pieces. The stone tools were so scarce that they were careful to keep or find them if lost.
I'll try to get together some pics of the few things I collected and maybe take some on site pics.

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nice find blue ;D ;D ;D but that penny dosent look that old, i think the indians used furs and food for money ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

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Here comes some references for time periods.
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http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w...Picture118.jpg
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w...Picture117.jpg
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w...Picture120.jpg
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Condensed time periods,different publication (UGA)
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http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w...Picture122.jpg
reverse
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Petrified wood and three pieces of pottery. The most valuable piece is the one with the buffaloe on it.
The most ornate in the youngest piece.
Note the charcoal on the inside,sometimes they filled with ash to temper.
I'll look for the other pieces laying around the house.

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Thanks guys ;)

Tsub, I think the sites I hunt were pre-pottery. That's the only way I can explain why I haven't found any pottery. From what I understand pottery came about due to farming and they didn't learn how to farm until later on. In other words, when they mainly hunted, they didn't need a big bowl to put cooked meat in. But cornmeal on the other hand.....

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dude, cool rocks.
are those igneous?

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The black point in #8 looks like obsidian (volcanic glass). Most of the arrow heads I've seen from the left coast were flaked from it. Here's a thought... If your black points are obsidian, where did it come from? I'm not up to speed on east coast geology but I don't recall it being a volcanic area. I figure either it's not obsidian, my geological hunch is wrong, or those folks did a lot of trading back then.

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Wow man, thats way cool! Good job!! 8)

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Oh, this (believe it or not) is a typical artifact that we find.
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w...Picture125.jpg
The hole is to break the suction and pull the conch out after throwing it on a fire to cook it.

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And this is to show how serious they were about gathering food.
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w...Picture126.jpg
Found that in a lot next to one of our customers house yesterday.

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This is what most of the pottery looks like that I find pieces of.
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w...Picture004.jpg
It's about 14"-16" tall.

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Awsome! I had no idea I could find that stuff here. Ever get to middle GA around Macon or Milledgeville? Arrow head would alwys pop up in the yard after a good rain.

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That piece(s) is in the UGA Marine Institute on Skidaway Island. It's most likely impossible to find more than one or two pieces of matching pottery but there are millions of pieces of thousands of containers easy to find.
I have always been looking for arrowheads and have never found more than a 1/3 piece of one, that's how I ran across the pottery.
I've found ancient oysters 12" long near Augusta and salt water shells near Warner Robbins.

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Tsub - you'll be proud of me....I found my first piece of pottery yesterday evening! *I even got the middle of the swirly part! *This was found in the "new" field that I've only hunted less than a half dozen times. *I've found one bird point, a large broken spearpoint, small celt or tomahawk and now this in that field. Its getting pretty grown up with corn and soybeans so I doubt I go back until winter:
Sorry about pic quality...after all it is a camera phone *::)
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d7...628070726a.jpg

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COOL STUFF MAN, YOU GOT A LOT MORE FREE TIME THAN I DO...... :-/

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Cy last night I left grand central station (my house) at 8:07pm and was back at 9pm. Sometimes I'll only go for 20 - 30 minutes ;) Doesn't take up too much time if you know when and where to go.

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SO YOU DIG FOR THAT STUFF OR IS IT LAYING AROUND IN THE FIELDS. ???

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C Y, you don't have to dig,
after a rain storm, the water washes the dirt and you can see them.
I live in a big artifact area, but I am just too lazy to
walk out my back door and stroll through the fields.

Oh yeah, a freshly plowed field after a rainstorm is the best.

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Cy, I'll give you the basics on artifact hunting in just a couple of bullet points.....

- Best bet is to hunt where the indians lived - i.e. campsites. This is where they sat and made arrowheads, knives, tools etc out of stone. They had to have water, so looking near a creek, stream or spring, is your best bet. Flatter land is better since they typically didn't pitch thier tents on a hillside or in a flood plain.

- Be suspicious, if you see a rock pick it up and examine it. I like to hunt in fields that have few rocks so when I find a rock I'm curious. I found a perfect point once because I bent down to pick another rock up. I reached for the regular rock and my finger accidentally turned over a perfect arrowhead in the process!

- Plowed fields are where I hunt. This is where the plow reaches way down deep and pulls the artifacts to the surface - but they aren't visible just yet. Need to wait for a good rain or "gully-washer" to clean and compact the upper layer of soil that is hiding the artifacts.

- Early morning or later evening provide better light than the mid-day sun. Bright sun creates a glare on the soil and makes it harder to see.

- Study flint. Flint is the type of stone arrowheads were made from. Know what it looks like so you will recognize it if you see it. Look for little flakes of flint. This is where they sat and made arrowheads and tools. You are likely to find arrowheads and tools in this area. When making arrowheads they are prone to being broken during the process...at which time the indian would have chunked it right there.

- Think about the topology of the land. Realize that over thousands of years what was the surface back then may have since been covered by several feet of soil. This is particulary true next to rivers and streams that flood and displace soil.

- Look in gully's created by heavy rain. I found one right outside my back door in a small gully less than a foot wide and about 8 inches deep where the water runs past the edge of a retaining wall.

- Be suspicious, if you see a rock pick it up and examine it. I like to hunt in fields that have few rocks so when I find a rock I'm curious. I found a perfect point once because I bent down to pick another rock up. I reached for the regular rock and my finger accidentally turned over a perfect arrowhead in the process!

- Be patient. I typically pick up roughly 25 - 50 pieces of flint before I find an artifact (not always). But, the flint I'm picking up is the waste from when the indians manufactured the tools.

Now go young jedi and find some chit! Please post pics ;D

P.S. A co-worker of mine showed some pix to her son of my arrowheads. The other day he plowed a 1 acre field for a lady then it rained. After the rain he walked around the field 5 min and found his first arrowhead!

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Parish beat me to it ;D In summary, what he said ;D

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wow, sounds cool, I might have to give that a try. Just gotta find somewhere close indians lived.

thanks for the explanation ;D

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Just find a plowed field, ask permission and start walkin! Its that easy! A nice cheap hobby ;D You could even make money by selling them, but I'd never sell mine. They mean to much to me. I'll pass em down to my girls and hopefully they'll add to it.

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Blue, I'm glad you found some pottery. It just seemed impossible that there wasen't any there.
See if there has been any research done to be able to date the pieces as to design and texture.
The predominant university in your area should be able to give some direction. That is where I got most of my info.

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Thanks Tsub, I think I've probably been overlooking some shards. Really really hard to tell the diff b/t a shard and a rock unless the design side is facing up, which was the case with the piece I found. Now I need to find a smoking pipe in the form of a wellcraft logo efigy ;D