Awesome find. Of all years, this should be the best to find them. And I've really not looked. And Dave:
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I just don’t buy that there’s hundreds of thousands of these things laying all over. Beyond that, they lived past hundreds of years of being farmed on. Wasn’t all of Ohio wooded when they roamed the land?
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As hoot told me once, it's not that there was a shitload of Indians, but rather they were here for a shitload of time.
Early tool making humans entered Ohio around 13,000 bc. Meaning they had roughly 15,000 years to sit around chipping rocks. In contrast , Lewis and Clark rolled through here only 216 years ago.
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Another thing is they didn't have a shitload to do. Men folk mostly hunted, and in some nations they helped women tended crops, women took care of the home, food prep, land management to include farming, kids, water gathering, clothes and pottery making. Men mostly hunted, sat around, and traveled keeping an eye on things. That leaves a lot of time to sit in the shade and bang some rocks together.
I was reading an article from an old fella who was a very successful indigenous artifact hunter. He said that if he saw a big rock by itself in the woods he would always dig around it and usually find artifacts. His theory was the Indians would put them there for later use instead of carrying them around. If you think about it that actually makes sense. If most of my tools were rocks I wouldn't want to carry them around either. If the Indian was traveling and needed an axe head he'd just chip one up fairly quick. Then when he was leaving that area he'd put it somewhere that he could find it later. Sometimes they'd just make something real quick to do what they need and then toss it down. If you think about people doing that for tens of thousands of years, then it's fairly easy to see how we still stumble across stuff today.
Like anything else YouTube has a lot of videos. I've been watching heart breaker relics. Guys do a lot of hunting in streams and creeks. They find some pretty cool stuff! Here are the ones I found. The white one looks like it was made out of the same stuff as carpn's
It has some pink in it.
I think arrow points, and indian artifacts in general, are just flat out fascinating. I suck at finding them but every now and then I get lucky. I've never found anything 100% intact though... I just find the broken ones that the young injuns threw away when they were first learning to knap. 
Ya can't help but let your mind wander when you find one and start thinking about the last hunter who held it .
I don't really look hard for them , I just keep my eyes open when I'm in areas where I may find em.
I have one spot Ive found several tho and I may zig zag some when I'm there .
I was talking to a guy at work and he said he found one last year on the N side of the same field I found that latest one . I didn't see the Flint chips that usually indicate a camp was there , but obviously there was something. Or just a coincidence
I don't really look hard for them , I just keep my eyes open when I'm in areas where I may find em.
I have one spot Ive found several tho and I may zig zag some when I'm there .
I was talking to a guy at work and he said he found one last year on the N side of the same field I found that latest one . I didn't see the Flint chips that usually indicate a camp was there , but obviously there was something. Or just a coincidence
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I keep my eyes in the dirt in just about every field I've ever crossed here and only found one. As for their location it's a numbers game. They didn't have bow and arrows until about 500AD. So for about 13,500 years before that they were throwing sticks with a sharp rock on the end. Game was much more plentiful but still it wasn't a small feat to actually hit one, much less kill it with a rock tipped stick. They probably threw a shit ton of them at animals before actually harvesting one. Hollywood has really amped up the ability and accuracy factor when it comes to native American archery also. The reality is the bows they had probably sucked and the arrows flew like shit. Have you ever seen those south American jungle people shoot their bows on nat geo. Big ass long arrows wobbling like a rubber arrow and fishtailing everywhere. So there too is a lot of missed shots and broken points laying everywhere. . Add that up over the years and that's a shitload of rocks being thrown about. I often wonder how many are below our feet that nobody will ever see.
Ive hunted artifacts for years. One of the best hobbies.....nothing better than finding a sweet piece. Dont do nearly as much as I used too. Need to get back into but3 kids, take up most of my time any more..They like to hunt but usualy are ready to b done around time im just getting started.Used to hunt all day. Buckeye lake area in perry county one of my favorite spots.But have found them all over Ohio.Have one piece from my time in Alaska Heres some pics. Got thousands of broken ones and lots of others not in displays
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found one of my nicest 3/4 grove stone ax on hoover reservoir last year hunting it with my youngest boy.He found his first piece it was a spear point missing its base..He was excited as I was.....took about 20 steps and rite on top was the finest ax ive found. Its at my moms house... ill send a pic of it soon . Found quite a few on resevoirs when the water level drops.
Greyson just plucked these five feet apart. A full point and a small s raper of some type
