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Some Casas Grandes stuff...





and saved the best for last:

We buried dad with a Val Verde and an Langtry point. Two points he never found!

Bob N.

Took out some bird hunters this morning...



found this point while looking for a downed boyd...

Dang it,..where are you finding these.? I swear,..you could fall backwards into a mess of points...

Any idea what that point is made from? Color is neat..

What do you think is the percentage of pre-historic points that have been found by man..? 3%.?..I bet that's a high number. For as many arrow/spear heads as you guys find,..early man must have been a spear chuckin/arrow shootin fool.....

I would have thought that the points would have been almost sacred with the amount of time it takes to make one, but maybe they weren't a big deal. Maybe the way early man successfully hunted was to throw an arrow at anything and everything that moved and hope for the best...

When she was real little, my youngest daughter got obsessed about finding an arrowhead. She'd follow my wife around the garden... is dis one, momma? Wife was getting a little annoyed because, frankly, western Oregon where we are is covered in so much organic duff that something dropped even 20 years ago is several inches under "ground"... but damned if that kid didn't find a bird point!

When I was digging the trench fir the perimeter foundation for my studio building I cut across a fire ring about 18" down. Always wondered about that.

In New Mexico, as Mudhen will attest, stuff just lays there for centuries. I know areas just loaded with shards and broken points. Finding the good stuff is a different matter. In the 70's, when it was still legal, I participated in some evacuations that resulted in whole pots- or funeral pots with the bottom broken out.

petrified wood. it's the most common flint-eous material on CO's eastern plains....

I found some broken points out here at Leakey Tx last week. They are all that kinda beige(light brown) flint. All the flint down in the Frio River- below the house- 40-50 yards is blue to black. Go figure. I always figured some of the broken ones were just rejects. Some may have broke off inside the prey.

very cool thread ,thanks guys,really enjoy looking at this stuff.did not know it was illegal to find on state land.

Legal to find, illegal to disturb.

I have a very nice hide scraper. It must have been made for me as it fits my hand like a kid glove.

Once again.

100% legal to take if found on private property, at least around here and all of mine were found on the ranches I've either lived on or hunt on.

My grape farming friends have unearthed a buch of artifacts too.

Oh, I wasn't commenting on any of that Salmonella. Looks like you guys have done this rodeo already?

I don't know the in's and out's of the law... just remember it changing in the 70's.

Personally, I find a nice point, it's going home with me <g>.

busted awl/drill and broken point today...

Here are a few bowls that turned up with this winter's rains...





This broken bowl was actually a double sided bowl.

I like your German Shorthaired Pointer.

I wanted to stop in and say hello to everyone.
I moved to Denver from Southern Idaho a few years back. I recently felt the urge to be out in the brush looking at the ground. So, this is my intro before I head out for the first time in Colorado.
I have a large collection of obsidian points and awls back home at my fathers place. I hope to add to that collection with some Colorado points.
Wish me luck!
Sean

you got it, fella

I've paid close attention to your posts Huntsman. I have a co-worker who lives in Strasburg, his uncle works a ranch south of Deer Trail. He mentioned heading out that way to hunt arrowheads.
My wife and I live in Green Valley Ranch. I just came in from a walk along Picadilly Rd. Got the bug ya know!
Sure would like to get out to your area though.

pm me and come out anytime the boss ain't here. I do gotta warn ya, I've picked it over pretty good......

went out for a couple hours, all I found was chips/flakes. Did get fooled like a prospector and his fools gold. Here's my fake fools point....



Did whomp a jackass raggit while out.....