Any arrowhead hunters here??

[j williams]

That one looks alot like mine! Maybe a stone knife! I can see that.

 

[Andrew Colglazier]

Yes, the egg shaped point is called a "Lerma" point, I assume for the fellow who first noticed that they were similar.

They can be found all over the US, in different sizes.

Andy

 

[johnny reb]

great find. Sometimes you just don`t know what they were making. Heres some of th pieces that I have found. The black one in the middle , under the two large stones, I have been told is a knife/ scapiping tool.

 

[johnny reb]

Any picture yet?

 

[siguy]

another option for that one andy has (j's looks a bit thick to me, but i am far from an expert) is an atlatl point. as i understand it, they were rather popular hunting and fighting tools, and had points larger than arrows but smaller than a full sized stabbing spear. they were basically sized up arrows...

 

[J.S. Carter]

I love arrowhead huntin, grew up right on top of an Adena Era Miami/Wea camp. We've found everything from hawks, atlatl points, bannerstones, spear, and arrow points, to morter and pestles, knives, skinners, and wompom. and what you have there my friend is an adz. and a very nice one too! GREAT FIND!:thumbup:

Atlatl darts look like sized up arrow heads sometimes slightly longer as well

 

[dipbait]

I think its a multitool.

 

[dipbait]

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I have quite a few Indian artifacts. The notch on the bottom looks puposefully made. cCould have been used to shape arrows.

 

[Myal]

I reckon it looks like a spear point , Id go with the guys who said alatl point , it looks so much like the spear tips here of the ones made to be thrown using a woomera

when they hit hard stuff and proke the tips , often enough they were "reprofiled" and kept in service as a knife / scraper type tool . why waste a roken stone tip thats allready mostly shaped and sharp and go knap out another cutting tool ?

just my 10 cents worth .

 

[dipbait]

I pick up one every now and then. Heres my box of rocks.

 

[Bob W]

I would call it a "biface tool" or "biface scraper" if the edges show wear-use. Otherwise it could be an unfinished projectile point, perhaps abandoned due to some flaw in the material, or perhaps simply dropped and lost by the maker before finished.

It is too crude and unfinished to be a functional spear point, dart point, etc. And it's much too large to have ever been intended for use as an "arrowhead."

One other comment. Note the notch in the tool, most visible in third photo. Hard to see for sure from the photo, but that appears to be a more recent break. Perhaps a scar from modern / historic agricultural plowing. Or maybe stepped on by a cow.

 

[j williams]

Dipbait- thats a very nice collection you got there. Where are you at in mo?

bob- you are corect. It is a recent break. You can tell in hand.

 

[dipbait]

Northeast Mo. near Hannibal.

 

[mtnfolk mike]

wow.. great finds guys.... i'm waaay jealous.. i wish there were spots around here, where i could hunt for treasure's like that...

 

[Ralph Merlino]

It sure looks like a scraper to me.

 

[dipbait]

Hey J.Williams. This picture was taken on a bluff overlooking the Salt River below Mark Twain Lake. Its on private land and not many people have seen it.

 

[m. wohlwend]

Here are some from the desert...

 

[j williams]

Wow dipbait, thats an awesome pic! I would love to see that!

 

[the possum]

We find 'em around here too. The neighbor gave us permission to look at his field after he plowed it, and I found a few nice pieces. A couple field points, a drill, and a nice little Mississipian (?) point. There's a guy not too far away that opened up his own museum (inside his stone fortress). He has thousands of nice pieces on display- the lesser quality pieces are stored in big stacks of full cigar boxes.