The Survive! Never Say Die! Chat Thread

With everything being stored on various Cloud based storage devices, archeology will be a thing of the past in a millennium or two. Now if those dumb dinosaurs had that kind of foresight, good folks wouldn't be wasting their time digging deep large holes like some giant gofers!
 
B34NS said:
Glad you guys dig it! Now I'm trying to think of what mastodon marrow would have tasted like! HK in some parts in Alaska you can see tusks and other bones poking out of the river bank right at eye level from the last ice age. Once exposed to air they tend to decompose pretty rapidly though.
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That is wild. A couple of our friends when I was living in Montana would go to the east side of the state and excavate around buffalo jumps. They had some neat skulls. I'm thinking they had also brought home some pottery shards and stone implements, but can't remember 100%. Another gentleman that is a friend of my dad's (actually he lives right up by Guy & Ellie) had hundreds of arrowheads he had found. When I was a kid, he cleaned out all of the ones that weren't perfect, i.e. had a chip or broken ear or something. He gave me something like a couple hundred imperfect arrowheads, most of which I have since handed off to young people that took an interest. I've found a few arrowheads myself, but small and imperfect. I did find one good spear point once myself. It's about three inches long and it's pretty nice, but does have a chip. The undamaged ones are hard to come by!
 
Chief Bowles is buried less then a 1/4 mile from our land. (Or so the marker states.) We find pottery and arrow heads/ spear tips all the time out here. Its a joy when you find something like that. I love the fact my son can grow up looking for stuff like that in his own back yard.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...chief)&usg=AFQjCNFF5NjNa1FG4K-kPdMFhkhZHZp-eQ

Very interesting history, if your into that kind of stuff.
 
Good read. And sad, like much of that history.

I'm glad you guys can still find arrowheads and such frequently. My folks are both from Missouri. My dad says when he was a kid it was so commonplace to pick up arrowheads that the boys would skip them out across the water like a rock. He found a stone-headed hammer back there when he was young. My uncle in Alaska still has it somewhere.

I like reading the Lewis & Clark journals, too. There's some interesting information recorded there.
 
I hav a spear head but I forgot how I came to obtain it. Probably my grandpa who was from OK. I never find cool stuff like that. Native Americans from WI must have been farmers and not hunters.
 
i live in the north east and have found a few mini ball type bullets but have never been fortunate enough to come across a decent arrow or spearhead. i find stuff like that extremely cool and have been on vigilant lookout since childhood when walking the woods.
 
The spear head we found was kinda of funny. We were pushing up trees with the dozer and my uncle just stopped. He yelled at us and pointed down. No more then a half inch was sticking out. My cousin dug it up it was about a three inches long. Almost mint condition aside from one ear on the bottom chipped off. It had dozer tracks and bucket scrapes all around it. It was only by chance we found it.
 
No that was years ago. My cousin framed it with a bunch of other arrow heads and pottery pieces he has found. I'll see if he still has it and if I can come snap some pictures.
 
Hard Knocks said:
That is wild. A couple of our friends when I was living in Montana would go to the east side of the state and excavate around buffalo jumps. They had some neat skulls. I'm thinking they had also brought home some pottery shards and stone implements, but can't remember 100%. Another gentleman that is a friend of my dad's (actually he lives right up by Guy & Ellie) had hundreds of arrowheads he had found. When I was a kid, he cleaned out all of the ones that weren't perfect, i.e. had a chip or broken ear or something. He gave me something like a couple hundred imperfect arrowheads, most of which I have since handed off to young people that took an interest. I've found a few arrowheads myself, but small and imperfect. I did find one good spear point once myself. It's about three inches long and it's pretty nice, but does have a chip. The undamaged ones are hard to come by!
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That's awesome!

I love coming across little reminders like that of those who stood right in the same place long ago. Even some of the damaged pieces I've come across are still razor sharp!
 
B34NS said:
That's awesome!

I love coming across little reminders like that of those who stood right in the same place long ago. Even some of the damaged pieces I've come across are still razor sharp!
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And they are the ultimate in corrosion resistance :D
 
We have found quite a few arrowheads and tools on our farm. It always gives you chills to look at a new find laying in the dirt or in the creek and wonder who made it, and what success they had in using it. The Osage Indians lived here, and had a year round village about 2 North of us. That site has yielded amazing finds. I just wish I could get a time machine and go back and live with them for a year and see how they cooked, planted, hunted, etc
.. It would be amazing

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My aunt found a hollowed out stone bowl with her roto-tiller one year and got to thinking it looked a lot like the bowl of a mortar & pestle. About 5 minutes later she did find the pestle. Still uses it today. That was in Columbia Falls, MT in about 1980.
 
Brian77 said:
We have found quite a few arrowheads and tools on our farm. It always gives you chills to look at a new find laying in the dirt or in the creek and wonder who made it, and what success they had in using it. The Osage Indians lived here, and had a year round village about 2 North of us. That site has yielded amazing finds. I just wish I could get a time machine and go back and live with them for a year and see how they cooked, planted, hunted, etc
.. It would be amazing
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It is so impressive to see what they accomplished with how little they had to work with. Although I imagine the natural resources and fish and game were abundant. Still, what a hard life, but I would think a good life. I would love to see all those tools in use as well.

TRfromMT said:
My aunt found a hollowed out stone bowl with her roto-tiller one year and got to thinking it looked a lot like the bowl of a mortar & pestle. About 5 minutes later she did find the pestle. Still uses it today. That was in Columbia Falls, MT in about 1980.
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What a cool find. I would guess coming from Columbia Falls that it would be from the Kootenai/Flathead Indians. I don't think it would be far enough East to be Blackfoot or Sioux. So cool.
 
when i was a kid i was always on a hunt for fossils or remnants from bygone era's. It's always cool to hear about people rediscovering a bit of the past.
 
Well no pictures for me right now till the el telephone is fixed. That won't be till after the vacation. But as soon as I can I'll try to get some of my cousins collection. I have a stone bowl but I'm not sure what it was ever used for if it was anything at all. (It was neat as a kid so it got kept.)
 
Tutankhamun had a space dagger :)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3619841/Tutankhamun-space-dagger-Blade-ancient-Egyptian-boy-king-s-mummy-METEORITE.html

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