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That one is a dandy!

Looks Paleo to me.

I must not know where to look?

New knockoff 4 1/2 inches and relatively clear obsidian with some interior pattern.

As kids we made our own arrows with found arrowheads. I wish I had all the ones I broke shooting them at trees. They had no real value back then.

found another mano. used on both sides. This makes 5, and yet to find a metate/bowl.....

I found one of those years ago in the mountains NW of Pagosa Springs. It added A little weight to my pack It fit the hand perfectly.

We found dozens of Manos without finding the Metates for years Hunts. Then my cousin told us that they used to turn them over to keep them from filling up with water and busting when they froze. So we went back and started flipping big rocks and low and behold we started finding Metates!

yessir, I know that. Trouble is, there ain't any rocks in this sandy shortgrass prairie, bigger than a grapefruit.....

a broken point and a nice thumb scraper. the scraper has a little rough, non-slip surface for the thumb to ride on....

I like finding thumb scrapers.
Big ole worked tool type of stuff I give to slumlord.
But I keep the thumb scrapers.
Some of em are knapped pretty intricately.


I buried my dog cookie on sept 5.
Lined his grave with 2 years worth of broken stuff and some grade 7 and 8 points.
He meant alot to me.
And man has had dogs for 10,s of 1000,s of yrs.

Just a gesture of love and respect in my mind for my dog.
He got buried with alot of his favorite things to take with him to the afterlife.
I will see him again I'm sure.

Ain’t a projectile point, but I found a cool old marble out walking fenceline last week!

All I have is the stone Indian hammer my grandfather found in the forties. This is Sac, and Fox country.

That’s a killer little scraper. We call them turtle backs, not sure where we picked that up.

KW I found a little black and white Washita point and about 20’ away a green cat eye marble. Was an old house there in the teens and 20s on a hump on the north side of a creek. Apparently there was a house there a long time before that too, probably made of buffalo hides instead of boards.

My uncle and our buddy went looking last Saturday morning and I didn’t go since I’d been out of town all week working and hadn’t seen my family. They found a stack of good Alibates flint points and tools and a spectacular Celt. Sonovabitch!

busted itty-bitty...

Cousins lived outside Portales, NM. They had some sand dune about 1/4 mile from the house. They'd fine tons of arrow heads just on the edge of those dunes, where the grass started to grow. Always wondered why the hunting was so good in that spot, thinking about deer and larger game. Came to realize that "zone" was filled with rabbits and that was the likely prey.

Never know what was under that dune 8000 years ago either. Guy in the OK panhandle back during the dust bowl found a bunch of Clovis era camps full of outstanding artifacts after the wind blew away sand piles exposing ancient playa lakes where the sand had collected.

So what was the purpose of these tiny points? I’ve always heard them referred to as bird points. I would think a blunt would have been sufficient for small game instead of knapping points.