Arrow Heads

[260 Rem]

I also found one of those "fire starter" rocks.
I am rather ticked off tonite after contacting a relative about the disposition of my grandfathers collection. Apparently one of the Executors sons struggling with addictions, sold it. It never made it to a museum.

[Dale S]

It's too windy for fishing, so went rock hunting and found a couple nice ones.

[Big Red 250]

I see a post on CGN of an Albertan selling some stone hammer heads. Almost seems to be worth their weight in gold.

[220 Swift]

I didnt know that was legal to even sell

[Dale S]

It's been a couple of tough years for arrowheads. But today I found a sweet one. One of the oldest I've found. An Agate Basin Spear Point. 10,200 - 9600 before present. Right after the ice age. This one could have mammoths DNA on it.
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[Dale S]

Mounted a few on silver.

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[Dale S]

Better look.

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[Puma]

I read a cool story online about a 1000 year old copper arrowhead on an antler shaft that was just found on a glacier in the Yukon while some biologists were studying Caribou.. Google is your friend.

[Dale S]

The wind has been at work. All brokes today and a couple of scrappers.

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[fishnguy]

A very cool thread. Thanks for sharing, Dale.

Wish we had something like this in my neck of the woods.

[Red Bullets]

Dale, nice revival of the thread. Even though broken those are nice finds. I'm rooting for you find one or more that are intact.

fishnguy - you may have artifacts in your area. Why do you think there aren't any?

[Big Red 250]

Some are so tiny, it's hard to believe they could hold them & shape them with the primitive tools of the day.

[Big Red 250]

Back in the day, when I had my health, seems like I must of walked a thousand miles staring at the ground. I had about 100 perfect or as near to perfect as possible arrowheads, all found on light soil or sandy fields. I found the best hunting day's were after a day or 2 of real windy days. I never lived or hunted on area's like the OP did. When I had quit hunting/walking due to my health, I laid them all out on the table and let my grandkids (7 of them) pick out 2 or 3 each. The 2 perfectly best ones, I had a lady put a clasp on the back of each one, so my wife could put them on a chain and wear them as a necklace. 1 or 2 at a time however she wanted. I still have a couple of scraper's left, but they are bigger than what the OP pictured. I had saved a few of the better shaped broken ones, but gave away the rest to a relative that also hunts arrowheads. Where the wind doesn't blow all the time, such as it does in southern Alberta, the worst field's to arrowhead hunt are field's that had Canola in them the last season. The chaff is unbelievable.

[calgarychef]

I’ve always wanted to hunt arrowheads, one of my dreams since I was a boy.
I was out with the metal detector today. some day I need to try the arrowheads!

[fishnguy]

Originally Posted by Red Bullets

fishnguy - you may have artifacts in your area. Why do you think there aren't any?

Maybe we do, but not that I know of. Peace River area. We do have some fossils. My buddy’s sons found a part of a plesiosaurus a few years ago, which is now displayed at the Dinosaur Museum (maybe not anymore, actually; but it sure was). I haven’t found more than a few small shells so far, lol.

[birdman86]

Originally Posted by Big Red 250

I see a post on CGN of an Albertan selling some stone hammer heads. Almost seems to be worth their weight in gold.

14 arrowheads went for $280 at annett auction last week

[Grizzly Adams]

Originally Posted by calgarychef

I’ve always wanted to hunt arrowheads, one of my dreams since I was a boy.
I was out with the metal detector today. some day I need to try the arrowheads!

X2, only question being, where to start ? I'm told there's a quarry somewhere in K country where the ancient made their tools, mostly chips, few actual points. Took this in the Yukon , apparently there was trade for suitable tool making material materials from the Yellowstone area.





Grizz

[birdman86]

Man, I need to find a spot for this. But all the exposed land around here is so heavily worked with decades of cultivation that I don't really believe they're out here...gotta go onto the prairie somewhere?

[Dale S]

Originally Posted by birdman86

Man, I need to find a spot for this. But all the exposed land around here is so heavily worked with decades of cultivation that I don't really believe they're out here...gotta go onto the prairie somewhere?

Add in the Chinook wind on those heavily worked fields and you'll find some. You won't find them on the prairie.

[WayneChristie]

Originally Posted by Big Red 250

I see a post on CGN of an Albertan selling some stone hammer heads. Almost seems to be worth their weight in gold.

I have a couple but I would never consider selling them. Imagine how long ago someone was using those. Its holding history in your hand. then again at my age so is taking a pee

[Dale S]

A nice one today. This area I walk is probably a buffalo kill sight. Lots of bones around.

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[Dale S]

The only good thing about the wind we've been having. Should be a good year for artifacts. First 1of the year.

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[Dale S]

It's been a good spring. A few dart points, a triangle point, a scraper. And some brokes.

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[270person]

Originally Posted by Dale S

It's been a good spring. A few dart points, a triangle point, a scraper. And some brokes.

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Those are beauties. Very cool.

[walking buffalo]

Originally Posted by Grizzly Adams

X2, only question being, where to start ? I'm told there's a quarry somewhere in K country where the ancient made their tools, mostly chips, few actual points. Took this in the Yukon , apparently there was trade for suitable tool making material materials from the Yellowstone area.

Grizz

I randomly sat down on a small hill next to a creek in Kananaskis.
Just seemed like a good place to sit and take a break.

I noticed many small grey blue chips of stones laying at my feet.
Then I saw a few a small point. Probably for birds.

For sure this place was a campsite and this hill was used many times to work on hunting tools.

CalgaryChef, I'd be happy to tell you exactly where this is,
Very easy to get to, just a 100 yards off a main gravel road.

[270person]

Family used to have a cottage above Buffalo Pound Lake in the Quappelle Valley west of Regina. There were a couple of teepee rings on a hill above the cottage near the valley crest, and a sharp drop off hill a few miles west that I'm sure was used for a Buffalo jump. After reading this thread I could kick myself for never poking around both in detail. We used to find big pieces of knapped flint washed up on the shoreline all the time.

[dingo2]

Originally Posted by Dale S

It's been a couple of tough years for arrowheads. But today I found a sweet one. One of the oldest I've found. An Agate Basin Spear Point. 10,200 - 9600 before present.

Hate to break it to ya, but this is not an agate basin,. Flaking is wrong. More likely a knife.

[calgarychef]

Originally Posted by benamen

We found this on the beach last summer in the Meadow Lake Park. Does this look authentic?

That’s uncanny. I was detecting on a beach in the same park, I found almost nothing with the detector but my wife found a stone point!
It was interesting to think that sometime in the distant past a family had been camped there just like us, enjoying the water and losing things too.

[Okotok]

Originally Posted by fishnguy

Maybe we do, but not that I know of. Peace River area. We do have some fossils. My buddy’s sons found a part of a plesiosaurus a few years ago, which is now displayed at the Dinosaur Museum (maybe not anymore, actually; but it sure was). I haven’t found more than a few small shells so far, lol.

Back in the 70's, I found probably a dozen really nice fossils over about 10 years as a youngster on both the Heart River and Peace River banks. The best one was kind of a fluted clamshell about 4" long if I recall. Long since gone. Great agate hunting there too at times.

[Dale S]

Good start to the season. A Basant Atlatle. point. 3500 years old made of Knife River Flint only found in. North Dakota. And a Plains Side Notch arrowhead point. 500 to 1000 years old.







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