Arrowheads! I would have dropped my gun and got on my knees looking for those things. Nothing like finding a perfect arrowhead that's laid in the dirt for 1000 yrs. Gary
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Gary those are way cool! Any info on them? I would love to find some and always am looking down for some but have yet to come up with any!!
Glad you made it out of there and got home safely. Sounds like some ordeal. Which Indians were from down there?
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Man those are cool looking. The ones I got were mostly broken but the gut I was with has a bunch of complete un broken ones. I find it cool how the tools of the time were made but done differently in styling.
Pics or it didn't happen Rodney! 
Surely you got some pics! Sounds like a blast and a definite return trip.
Surely you got some pics! Sounds like a blast and a definite return trip.
It is, indeed, some nasty stuff. I guess us Carolinians are just from hardier stock than Texans.
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@SENC Well if you think so. I was asked "Do you really want to go in there?" by the man who invited me down. After the 3 rd day I didn't go in there anymore!!!! I am still pulling cactus out. The only picture I took was of about 200 or 300 ducks on the lake (in the middle of the picture) during a sweet looking sunset. this was the most open space on the 7000 acres. I will be going back got me some Turtle Skin chaps ordered last night.
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You know I'm being a smartass. I've come to respect that part of the world and everything that lives in it - it sure isn't easy living! Now if you need someone to come with you and help you with those ducks next year...
I used to chip arrowheads. Those are some Cahokia points I made. When I started hunting arrowheads I didn't find much so I figured out how to chip my own. Better than getting skunked! I chipped for almost 20 yrs then had to quit when my shoulder, elbow, and wrist finally gave out. I saved a few I made for my wall though. Now I'm back to walking fields looking for real ones and getting skunked. Gary
Great pic.....
All knapped except for the 3 frames vertical on the far left. I have almost 500 that I knapped on the wall. Part of my retirement. I was offered $20 apiece for the 500 or $10K. I'll hold out for $40 ea. Modern knapped flint is becoming more and more collectible as the collecting of old artifacts fades out. Restrictive laws, new farming practices (no more deep plowing), blatant fakery, make it hard to collect old stuff. Gary
Down here you can walk the fire breaks, after a fire, that the forest service ploy and find an arrow heads every now and then. I found a site where there must have been a camp because there was a lot of chip and broken or unfinished arrow heads. Found another site where the Poverty Indians had a village after a canal was dug. There was a layer of black dirt in the canal bank which was a dead give away. Found round clay ball and, more rare, conical ball which the indians would put in fires and after they got hot they would drop in leather bag of liquid to heat it. There were also lots of animal bones. In the river deltas it was easy to find camp sites because all you had to do was look for a clump of trees in the middle of the marsh. The indians created little mounds of dry land with the clam shell from all the river clams they ate. Mostly broken pottery is all I ever found there.
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