More Primitives

[Oldncrusty]

I dusted off and snapped a couple pics of some of my native artifact collection. I wanted to show an authentic version of American knife making. The black knife blade is from the Adena culture, circa 200 b.c to 200 a.d.

Misc. Atlatl and bow points from 5000 b.c. to 1200 a.d.

[gamekeeper]

That's quite a collection, I have spent hours looking for flint arrow heads in the UK but without any success, mostly iron and bronze age sites around where I live.

[Pitchy]

Very nice indeed, i too have been looking most my life and haven`t found a single one.

[Bill in Oregon]

Crusty, how do you differentiate the atlatl from the arrow points?

[Gobblerforge]

Crusty, how do you differentiate the atlatl from the arrow points?

Size plays a part. The AtlAtl point will be bigger than a normal arrow can handle because the AtlAtl darts are much bigger.

[Oldncrusty]

Very nice indeed, i too have been looking most my life and haven`t found a single one.

Thanks. I was lucky enough to grow up in prime arrowhead country. It was nigh impossible to turn plow a field around here without turning up several. But, nobody plows any more, so it is much more diffcult to find them now days.

[Oldncrusty]

Crusty, how do you differentiate the atlatl from the arrow points?

That's a great question. I sure wouldn't claim to know for sure. I can only speculate by studying collector's guidebooks in order to learn established point type to date range associations, which are based on archaeology reports. The point types that predate the introduction of the bow (circa 800 a.d. in my area afaik) I have to assume were atlatl dart points. Definitely not a scientific approach, just good enough to satisfy my curiosity.

[Pitchy]

I`m going to keep looking as there were lots of Native American tribes here in MN.
I think there may have been a camp here on my property as there`s a flat area this side of a lake, also small rivers are a good place to look.
A old friend that is diseased now that he was standing by a boat ramp on Leach lake and about a 6 inch spear point washed up on the ramp, he called to his wife in the car and when he looked back it washed back into the lake.

[EdinCT]

My Grandfather found about 3 dozen and some really nice ones too! I have found two broken ones and one day talking with my Dad at Gramps place he bent over and picked one up! He said look at that a perfect war point!!! You have to look where they are. One of mine I found in a sand bar while trout fishing.

[DadsMod12]

Nice collection! I grew up 1/2 mile from the Olentangy Indian Caverns. Every spring I would go out and search for arrow heads when Dad tilled the garden. Dad used to have a 3 pound coffee can half full of arrow heads. They were not perfect, Dad thought maybe they used this area to make them. Most of them were very imperfect.