Topic: Evidence of prehistoric man in my back yard??

[Thaddeus]

Well, evidence of a pre-historic American culture.

This is kind of silly, I guess, but I was working in my garden not too long ago clearing corn husks when I found a shiney rock in the soil. I thought it was strange, so I kept searching.

I found many more shiney pieces of flint and even a "point."

I had an expert on Native American artifacts determine I'd found a preform (a rough point that had yet to be formed into a sharp point), and something called a "table rock" -- which is just a term used to describe a particular type of small arrowhead, if I'm not mistaken. He roughly dated it to the late Archaic Period.

Pics of what I found:





I have Native American ancestry (grandmother was full blood Cherokee indian) and this stuff fascinates the hell out of me for some reason. I try to imagine what it must have been like to live here thousands of years ago...

[Clara E. Leet]

Wow, nice!

A neighbor of mine found an arrowhead in his backyard once. Kept it in a necklace for good luck. And all I ever found was a seven-leaf clover.

[Azmodan]

In Reply To #1

Whoa. o_O

Excellent find. I knew a man who found a few arrowheads by his house, but I guess that's nothing like finding them yourself.

[CVfan13]

Wow, man that is great! Congradulations on a really cool find!

[Gunlord]

Cool! Native American history is fascinating, it is ^^ So your mother was a full-blooded Cherokee? :O!!!

[ProtoBelmont]

In Reply To #1
Ah nice indeed. Arrow heads seemed to be rather common find of rare artifacts, up here in northern Wisconsin. (Seeing how the chippewa indians resided around the whole northern region and all.)

Wish I still had mine, but unfortunately I lost them in my old house. Neat things they are. :[

[buijon]

In Reply To #6
i wonder if i have the rocks i dug up over the summer still...found one that looked like a small hatchet head, anouther possible food grinding stone....but may just be my wild imagination...