Family Trip

[willy]

also if you are finding flint shards, rudimentary striking tools or mineralized bone of antler(tools) also keep an eye for old dark looking areas where there may have been fire pits, you will often find animal skeleton remains. If you find an area like that bring a shovel and do some light escavating. The fire pits is where they sat and worked, cooked, made clothes and tools and weapons. They would travel and use the same locations for thousands of years, hunting camps, fishing camps, outpost villages, winter homes, summer homes etc.
Actually if I could have their lifestyle with modern medicine I would go back in a heartbeat

[Blue_Runner]

Actually if I could have their lifestyle with modern medicine I would go back in a heartbeat

Me too willy.

BTW, in the plowed fields you can see the dark areas where the fire pits were but not likely to find any skeletal stuff due to the plows that have made their way through the field so many times over the years. I do however find quite a few large rocks that were obviously burned from being around the edge of the fires.

[willy]

right there is where you should dig down Blue, excavate a little at a time, that is what my friend did. The guy who I told you about before, excavated the immediate area around the firepit, and the firepit, would find all kinds of artifacts

[C YENSEN]

looks like a great family outing

[Blue_Runner]

right there is where you should dig down Blue, excavate a little at a time, that is what my friend did. The guy who I told you about before, excavated the immediate area around the firepit, and the firepit, would find all kinds of artifacts

Well, I'm not much on the diggin, cept diggin hot chicks...but I might try that Willy.

[parishht]

"don't be afraid to ask permission from a land owner to walk through their field"


That is key, there is nothing I hate more than looking out of my kitchen window
to see some ******* walking in my fields and/or creek without my permission.

God I wish I had rock salt shells for my shotgun, like my neighbor used to do.

[Blue_Runner]

I would never do it without permission. It is very disrespectful to trespass. Not only that but what if the landowner or his kin folks like to hunt artifacts as well? Then you are just plain stealing...er uh, well I guess you are stealing no matter what but you get the point.

[garagenc]

R.B Bring him down here to my way, we have numerous areas where indians lived; in fact there is a place about a mile from me called Indian Town, it's by a creek and almost everytime we go out there to launch the stump knocker to fish or party we usually find some arrow heads.

[randlemanboater]

Originally Posted by garagenc

R.B Bring him down here to my way, we have numerous areas where indians lived; in fact there is a place about a mile from me called Indian Town, it's by a creek and almost everytime we go out there to launch the stump knocker to fish or party we usually find some arrow heads.

Sounds good.