Welcome to a Preview of Missouri Arrowheads
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I found this axe in Feb. 2005. It is absoulutely perfect. Only part of the groove was exposed in sand, and when I hit it with the stick the water became merky and I lost it for a few seconds, and BAM there it was! Interesting in the fact that it was almost a mile away from any real river.
Be sure to check out the Recent Finds
I found this axe in Feb. 2005. It is absoulutely perfect. Only part of the groove was exposed in sand, and when I hit it with the stick the water became merky and I lost it for a few seconds, and BAM there it was! Interesting in the fact that it was almost a mile away from any real river.
This pink"Cache River" piece was found on our farm.
No, it's not just a rock. This piece is somewhat interesting in the fact that it is a shaft abrader. This is made of a sandstone, and was used to shape and smooth the shaft of arrow and spear shafts. My wife found this in 2004.
Here, is an adze or hoe found in a plowed field.
Both these points were found pretty close to a small cave. I would classify the one on the left as a "Calf Creek," and the one on the right as a discarded Adena. The Adena shows extreme resharpening on the blade.
These are some of the artifacts that my wife has found.
Both of these were found in the same ditch. The pink one, a buddy and I both saw, but he let me have the benefit of the doubt. He made up for it though a few weeks later finding a 5 in. Grahm Cave when we were together.
A couple of my larger points.
What, not interesting because they're broke? What if I told you that they were found less then 100 yards from each other? Still not? Well what's intersting to me, is the fact that the one on your left is an Adena being between 1300-3000 b.p. and the one on the right is either a Dalton or Clovis base giving it a range of 9200-14000 b.p. The fact that they both came from the same sight to me is extraordinary.
This interesting rock could have been the beginning of a nutting stone or possibly even a bannerstone.
A couple of my smaller points.
Here is a prime reason you should lable your points. These points are from two different collections. The bottom 3 or so rows, found in southern missouri, and northern arkansas. The top two or so rows, from around Kirksville Mo. But without any kind of labels no one will know exactly where they came from, and had I not asked when I acquired these points, we would not even know what state they were from. We would only be able to tell regions on some of them due to there point type.
I would classify this one as being a Godar. I'll never forget this point. My good friend Teddy had went arrowhead hunting with me several times and never could find one. Then one day Joe another good friend of mine, Teddy, and I were walking down the river and he started yelling he had found one. I ran over congratulated him, talked for a minute, took five or six steps and there was this one lying in the water. They were both the same size and type, only his was white. What was even funnier was there was a guy on the same sandbar looking.
Here is a couple of pottery shards. Many people say they don't find any of this in the area. They are rather common though. They don't always have designs in them like these pieces do, and many times I think people don't know exactly what they are looking for when there is pottery to be found. However, pottery was only around for 2-3,000 years and arrowheads for 10-14,000 years depending on what book you read, so of course there is more arrowheads than pottery.
This one here is a good candidate for the states ugliest artifact.
One of my first good arrowheads.
Seen this one from thirty feet away....and oh what a heart- breaker.
Here is an extremely small bird point.
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