Artifact hunting

Identifying Indian tools made from rock is moderately easy if you know what you're looking for. Indian artifacts may be strewn where there was once a settlement. Arrowheads and bird points may be found at vantage points, such as cliff tops and bluffs, although only fragments or shards of these primitive tools may ...

Hunting and gathering: Paleolithic The Indian stone age is divided into the palaeolithic, mesolithic, and neolithic on the basis of geological age, the type and technology of stone tools, and subsi…

Comparing portable rock art similarities from around the world

Archaeology of Stone Age portable rock art such as figure stones, sculptures, effigies and curated manuports.

“The last human to touch this before us was planning to cook dinner over an open fire using a critter killed with this,” I told my kids. With eyes aglow...

Eastern Woodlands Prehistory

📷 Very handmade with possible tar at the end.Handcrafted copper washer of sorts.

For lifelong artifact hunter Darrel Higgins, finding an arrowhead was nothing new, but the one he found recently in Western Kentucky was special: It is bigger than any other ever found in North America. "The item, described as a Clovis point made of Buffalo River chert, was submerged in a creek bed when Higgins stumbled upon it," Kyser Lough of the Murray Ledger & Times reports. Eastern Kentucky artifact expert Tom Davis dated the point back to the days when prehistoric man roamed the earth…

Archeological artifacts are fascinating legacies from past cultures that can teach us about the practices and lifestyles of vanished peoples. Although the term usually brings up images of lost tombs and gleaming treasures in the popular imagination, most artifacts tend to be more low-key. Arrowheads from Native ...

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