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<blockquote data-quote="338lapuaman" data-source="post: 5639196" data-attributes="member: 19539"><p>Just a quick question for you, do you carry every bullet and every gun and every tool with you when you go hunting? You don't pack the whole house every time you go on a trip? Not being a smart *** but thats the way a salty old man that got me into hunting artifacts put it to me when I started hunting native American artifacts. Some times when we would dig or hunt certain areas you were likely to turn up several what they call "pre fab or pre form" or even several seemingly just alike in one spot especially around bluff shelters and hunting grounds. You have to stop and think too how much a bag of rocks weigh versus the minimal amount of time it would take a skilled craftsman to re-create what they had made over and over again. Me and 2 of my buddies found a cache of 152 pinetree arrowheads in one spot that was in a 40ft x 60ft area. We "assumed" the person that lived there was an expert at making that style of arrowhead and then we came back the next year and found 2 more same spot that there wasn't a dimes bit of difference in any of them other than color and some were chipped or broken. This being said it didn't take them long to turn out the smaller points and the tools they made and used were made crude and rough made out of lesser material due to it not having to be as refined since they held them in their hands and dug in the dirt with them. The larger ceremonial points, jewelry and ceremonial pieces and bowls were the things they took high value in and carried with them. What is a tremendous find for people that hunt them may have been something Native Americans didn't put much value in back then due to the excessive wait and cumbersome task of carrying it all with them because they were a true nomadic people constantly on the move based on food and water sources and weather and rival tribes. "Pre fab or Pre form" are generally knapped out to size and shape without the tips or bases put on them and refined to detail for end use. The 1st one on his wrist is an example of pre form or pre fab next to the spade. Also to take into account is that "generally" the wider the point and the longer the point is the "Gen 1" of the point, much like your pocket knife or skinning knife the Native Americans "re-shaped" arrowheads much like we do with knives. They would re-use what they had or found if they thought they could. hence a lot of drill points are basically re-shaped arrowheads that couldn't be used for hunting. Not trying to sound like a "know it all" but through many years of research and many years of hunting those are just some of the things I have learned that are also things I would have never thought about on my own. If you ever get south take a trip over to Florence Alabama and visit the Indian Museum they have case after case of points found in North Alabama or Go to Savannah Tn to their River Museum on the square there is a lot of good info there from Native Americans all the way to through the civil war that was found all along the Tennessee River mostly around Savannah TN.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="338lapuaman, post: 5639196, member: 19539"] Just a quick question for you, do you carry every bullet and every gun and every tool with you when you go hunting? You don't pack the whole house every time you go on a trip? Not being a smart *** but thats the way a salty old man that got me into hunting artifacts put it to me when I started hunting native American artifacts. Some times when we would dig or hunt certain areas you were likely to turn up several what they call "pre fab or pre form" or even several seemingly just alike in one spot especially around bluff shelters and hunting grounds. You have to stop and think too how much a bag of rocks weigh versus the minimal amount of time it would take a skilled craftsman to re-create what they had made over and over again. Me and 2 of my buddies found a cache of 152 pinetree arrowheads in one spot that was in a 40ft x 60ft area. We "assumed" the person that lived there was an expert at making that style of arrowhead and then we came back the next year and found 2 more same spot that there wasn't a dimes bit of difference in any of them other than color and some were chipped or broken. This being said it didn't take them long to turn out the smaller points and the tools they made and used were made crude and rough made out of lesser material due to it not having to be as refined since they held them in their hands and dug in the dirt with them. The larger ceremonial points, jewelry and ceremonial pieces and bowls were the things they took high value in and carried with them. What is a tremendous find for people that hunt them may have been something Native Americans didn't put much value in back then due to the excessive wait and cumbersome task of carrying it all with them because they were a true nomadic people constantly on the move based on food and water sources and weather and rival tribes. "Pre fab or Pre form" are generally knapped out to size and shape without the tips or bases put on them and refined to detail for end use. The 1st one on his wrist is an example of pre form or pre fab next to the spade. Also to take into account is that "generally" the wider the point and the longer the point is the "Gen 1" of the point, much like your pocket knife or skinning knife the Native Americans "re-shaped" arrowheads much like we do with knives. They would re-use what they had or found if they thought they could. hence a lot of drill points are basically re-shaped arrowheads that couldn't be used for hunting. Not trying to sound like a "know it all" but through many years of research and many years of hunting those are just some of the things I have learned that are also things I would have never thought about on my own. If you ever get south take a trip over to Florence Alabama and visit the Indian Museum they have case after case of points found in North Alabama or Go to Savannah Tn to their River Museum on the square there is a lot of good info there from Native Americans all the way to through the civil war that was found all along the Tennessee River mostly around Savannah TN. [/QUOTE]
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