Any of you guys collect arrowheads?
Question..Have you ever found one that was so clean/perfect,it looked like it was made yesterday?

I have a bunch. My best is actually a willow lief knife. That thing is perfect. Ron

Here are the pictures of my knife. Ron

Wow The original Bowie Thanks for shareing!

Not an arrowhead, but this is an axe head I picked up a couple of years ago on my family's farmland in Illinois:



The photo is poor but it was very clean, still in nice shape. It's just one of many other axe heads, arrowheads, etc. that have been found on the property over time.

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Originally posted by Idaho Ron:
Here are the pictures of my knife. Ron

Illegal to carry concealed in Chicago!!!

I have hundreds of points, plus drills, awls, knives, scrapers, nut stones and hammers. My biggest "encounter" was years ago in Wyoming. I was (mostly) drunk, after consuming a half-dozen beers on an empty stomach on a hot day. I leaned over the edge of a cliff to pick up an arrowhead on the edge.....and lost my balance....went over the edge and tumbled down a slope....fell into icy cold water. I had landed in a stream occupying the rim of a horseshoe-shaped sunken pocket of land. I pulled myself out of the stream and noticed a core (agatized wood) on my right and a stone knife on my left. Points were everywhere. The ground was littered with material in all colors, and many stone "teepee" rings.
I know I could never find that place again.....and there were other similar encounters. I found a cave west of Chugwater, Wyoming that was full of bones and stone tools, as well as a petroglyph (and a large number of "oolite" hand-axes) west of Rawlins. I called the anthropology Dept. of the University of Wyoming to advise them of these finds. They were NOT interested!! Apparently, they are overwhelmed with similar sites throughout the State. That latter site I found when I was driving across WY on I-80 and had a relentless need to find a bathroom. There were none; I was 40 miles W of Rawlins in the Red Desert. Anyhow, I got off the interstate, grabbed the TP and walked up a hill. The ground was actually sparkling on the other side of the hill.....with selenium crystals. So, I forgot about bathroom needs and started looking at the ground....and found points, hand-axes and that petroglyph.

Ron, that is an awesome knife! Did you find it or make it?

Rusty, I found this knife on our farm when I was about 10 years old. I have had it for 38 years. We found a lot of stuff on that place. It was very close ( a couple hundred yards) to the Malad River. The farm could have had some very famous people camp on it at one time. Here is a story about the Malad River. We owned the farm until my parents farm went broke in the mid 1980's and we had to sell the place. I wish I could have bought it. In the story below our farm was right at the mouth of the canyon. Ron

http://magicvalley.com/news/lo...b3-8ef79c271db9.html

Rusty, here are three other points I found. The stone point was found a little ways away from the knife. The other two were close. Ron

Thanks for the information, Ron!

How bout made out of petrified wood?

Ravenr

That's a WOW.

Jim

Just fascinating! I'd love to hold that knife, Ron!

Points are always beautiful!

I had a collection that I picked up in SE OK when I was in grade school. We found a place where the indigenous folk went to make them and I found many in various states of completion and abandonment. Out of ~100 I probably had two perfect heads. One of the perfect ones was about 3.5" long. shaped similar to the knife photo above. I left that collection with some relatives while in college and it was lost when they moved.

I think the shaft tie notch part was the hardest to make without breakage, that seemed to be missing from most of the points I found.

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Originally posted by Rusty:
Just fascinating! I'd love to hold that knife, Ron!

Points are always beautiful!

If your ever in Idaho send me a note. Ron

ravenr

That is one beautiful point.