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My kid found this fishing spearhead yesterday....

Excellent find, Sal!

Is that made of bone? Surely shaped using cutting tools, not chipped like most arrow points.

Looks to me to be modern made, ie early 1900 indians.

Wasn't Ishi 's tribe from your area? LOL

Very cool point

Yes to all above...

nice piece

Fresh out of the ground....

Sal, do you find lots of other artifacts around the areas you find the manos and metates?

I've got a lot of points and pieces.
I enjoy looking for the bowls and petals as you don't have to walk around hunched over staring for a needle in a haystack like you do arrowheads.
I look for likely looking rocks and flip em over or dig them out of the ground.
Lots of flipping to find what I have, but it keeps me outside in some nice country.
I'll gather up some of my arrowheads when I get a few minutes.

couple more teenie-weenies.

This is a hip bone from a Bison calf that I had identified at the museum at Michigan State University some years ago. It was found in S W Utah.



As you can see the point just barely breaks through the opposite side of the bone. They estimated it to be at least 200 years old

to better show the size of the point

Hip socket

Cool stuff fellas..

That Indian hit that buffalo calf in the ass! That's some bad shooting.
Must have been a rookie hunter.

Ass shots are quite effective according to a certain liar from Washington.....at least on uber sized bear.

I'm speculating that the calf had been wounded and later died unrecovered, otherwise the arrow or at least the arrow point would have been recovered.

I'm also thinking that the shot placement may not have been as far off target as some may think. It stands to reason that the hunter may have been aiming for the paunch or soft area of the animal so as not to have penetration of the arrow stopped by ribs and shoulder bones in a frontal hit. But he missed target slightly hitting the hip bone. A paunch hit would have been lethal and caused the animal to drop out of the herd to die within sight in the open terrain.

I'm all seriousness, what is interesting, is that they would choose such a small point for such a large animal.

The point is 1" wide not really a small point for hunting. A head of this size will penetrate deeper than a larger point.