Anyone into arrowheads or old flint tools ?

[guitar1580]

I wasn't sure exactly what section to post this in, so I thought I'd try here.

Anyway, this is my one and only arrowhead, which I found as a child. Our driveway had a section on a turn where the mud would push outward and form a bit of a rut. One day I looked down and found the bottom 2/3 of the piece, and I knew immediately what it was. I poked around a little and didn't see the tip, which was likely broken off from being run over, but I did keep it.

The following summer, in the same area, I looked down and saw the point. I knew instantly what it was as I ran to the house to find the other piece. It fit exactly onto the bottom section like a piece of a puzzle, so I super glued it and have had it ever since.

I didn't have much interest back then, but I've taken a re-newed interest after finding my old specimen, and may try to pick a few up, or trade for a few. I see lots of them for sale for a wide range of prices, but there are lots of fakes too. If anyone has any cool old arrow points or tools, please feel free to post pics.

JT

 

[bacpacker]

We had lived at our place for 5 years and had a garden each year. While tilling that next spring, I kicked up a small arrowhead, which I had chipped a back corner. Far and away the best find around here so far. I still keep a close eye when plowing, tilling, or digging a hole for trees or what ever.

I found an old book on flintknapping and have read thru it. But haven't gained the knowledge to pick out the proper stones yet. Like anything, you gotta put in the time to learn and gain expereince.

 

[pullrich]

A couple years ago I bought a hunk of obsidian for a buck at a garage sale and bashed it to pieces trying to make arrowheads.
By the time it was in smithereens I was ok at it, at least the things I was making resembled some of the old arrowheads you see in museums and such. not real symetrical but functional.

 

[Square_peg]

Flint tools are cool. I took some archeology classes in college. I even spent one summer working on a dig. I enjoyed lithics lab in school (rock breaking class). I used those skills many times later in life while managing construction sites. I have a few arrowheads around here somewhere, also a few wannabe points that I attempted to make myself. I've got one nice spear point that my wife found on a Pacific beach.

The most surprising thing I learned on that archeological dig is that I was a rank amateur at partying when compared to the professional archeologists. Damn that gang could tie one on!

 

[stevewest]

Back when I was in commercial construction, my masonry contractor, who had way too much time on his hands, would bring in old arrowheads he would find. He spent alot of time out in the field as he hunted and fished alot. He mentioned one time that he had good luck in old creekbanks.