Primitive North American Stone Weaponry - Mysteries

[Red Leg]

I have a pretty decent collection of Native American artifacts including some with holes in them. I have no clue what to call them , here is a few.

Ok, I am truly bitter with jealousy.

 

[Tucketed]

Not on points but a great channel I watch regularly is “ desert drifter” he is exploring very remote cliff dwelling structure and artwork. Lots of pottery shards like @Red Leg showed. It’s amazing to see where and how these dwellings were situated and built.

 

[Hunt anything]

I really can’t take credit for them, I found some of them but my grandfather found almost all of them along with my father. He traveled to every state with heads he found in Virginia to trade with local collectors.

 

[fourfive8]

I really can’t take credit for them, I found some of them but my grandfather found almost all of them along with my father. He traveled to every state with heads he found in Virginia to trade with local collectors.

Thanks for posting. That is another great collection! Also, I see there are some of those dang celts mixed in there . I assume many artifacts with holes may be necklace ornaments, buttons or possibly something for keeping tally of services or credit- aka wampum.... I dunno

 

[cwpayton]

You call that pretty decent/ Id call it a museum., I see mostly softer material and flint or chert east of the rockies, while out west we see mostly obsidian or basalt, i did fined one point made from a glass bottle, and supposedly a ship wreck in the 1800,s along the n. coast of california provided a massive amount of glass wine bottles, . IT seems to me archaeologist cant figure something out they just fall back on 'its religious ceremonial and move on :I know an old, older than me cowboy who worked a ranch in Arizona that had massive amounts of pottery and points , he said he rode up to a small spring one time and a large rock above it had a cross carved in it and a date 1764. same old cowboy worked a ranch in oregon and found a giant skeleton 8' + in a dry lake bed as well as 1oos of artifacts. state came and removed the skeleton and they never heard any more about it.

 

[fourfive8]

Unusual stuff, like a point knapped from glass bottle!, is always cool. I have found a few things that are out of place for era and location. A couple years ago I was tending my burn barrel near my house. It is sitting on an open area on the drain field… an area completely distributed when building my house, plus all kinds of gravel mixed in. I glanced down and there sits a Dalton-type point!
A much older form than the “eared”, younger points I find locally. Also found a little group of 3 iron “trade” points a few years ago, probably dating from 1860s based on the US Cavalry activity/ outpost in the area.

 

[Hunt anything]

Obsidian has to be my favorite material, we have some from the Pacific Northwest . At present we have 6 or 8 thousand in our possession, when my grandfather died we donated quite a few to James Madison university, Bridgewater College and the Waynesboro Virginia public library.