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AustinB:

--- Quote from: Michael Bush on January 31, 2023, 07:12:19 am ---We looked for them all the time when I was a kid.  Often you find a spot where they were knapping flints and you find the rejects laying around along with flakes.  Most of those that are greenish in color literally came from my back yard where the Indians had been quarrying Nehawka flint for millennia.  They asked a Shoshone chief in the late 1800s when the last time he saw someone knap a flint.  He had never seen anyone knap a flnit and said neither his father nor his grandfather had ever seen anyone knap a flint.  From the 1700s all the Indians in North America had steel arrowheads even if they had never seen a white man.  Some were purpose made for trade and many were made from barrel bands.

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We just found a spot yesterday that was a knapping site with lots of debitage, chert and flint looked like to me. My son found a really beautiful banded flake a little larger than a quarter, really cool stuff.

Ben Framed:
My Uncle, on my Mothers side of the family, while chopping cotton as a kid, had found numerous Arrowheads in the Mississippi Delta. He told me he had accumulated almost a cigar box full. Took them to school for show and tell and never seen them again. Bummer... But as y'all have mentioned the plowed fields are good places to find Arrowheads...

Phillip

Michael Bush:
Stone arrowheads don't rust and they basically last forever.  Several hundred thousand years of accumulated arrow and spear heads are all basically still out there.

Ben Framed:

--- Quote from: Michael Bush on January 31, 2023, 08:53:03 am ---Stone arrowheads don't rust and they basically last forever.  Several hundred thousand years of accumulated arrow and spear heads are all basically still out there.

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We, (my family and I), visited a museum in Northwest Tennessee a few years ago. There were numerous displays of arrowheads dating back many years. The museum had them organized in groups per time period. The designs of size and shape were a variety, depending of the basic time period. We found this, among other things interesting.

Phillip

AustinB:

--- Quote from: Ben Framed on January 31, 2023, 08:51:28 am ---My Uncle, on my Mothers side of the family, while chopping cotton as a kid, had found numerous Arrowheads in the Mississippi Delta. He told me he had accumulated almost a cigar box full. Took them to school for show and tell and never seen them again. Bummer... But as y'all have mentioned the plowed fields are good places to find Arrowheads...

Phillip

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A lot of really great pieces come out of Mississippi, that's on our list of places to visit and search.

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