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03-30-2020, 10:23 PM #26"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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03-30-2020, 10:55 PM #27
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03-30-2020, 11:06 PM #28
Per Websters, either spelling is OK.
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03-30-2020, 11:08 PM #29
But only one of the spellings is archaic.
Forum Cross Pollinator, gratuitously strident
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03-30-2020, 11:11 PM #30
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03-31-2020, 05:52 AM #31
mid-70s I was grade school, my grandmother died, remember in the course of going through "stuff" there a couple of paper bags with 10-15 arrowheads in each, maybe 50-75 total. The family was very rual; farm in lowcountry SC, my mom said her father would find them all the time plowing fields. No big deal.
I have no idea what happened to them."Can't you see..."
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03-31-2020, 10:28 AM #32
Why are all these arrowheads around? Given that they took some effort to make I would have thought that they would have been saved and taken with people when they moved. I suppose if a village was massacred and destroyed they would have been left on the ground.
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03-31-2020, 10:36 AM #33
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03-31-2020, 11:00 AM #34
Here in East Tennessee, we have artifacts almost everywhere. As a youngster, we had a guy that plowed about an acre to plant tobacco. I found 15 near perfect points in one afternoon.
Back in the 1980's, I met a guy who was basically a grave-robber back when no one cared. Lived over on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Had exhumed about 200 graves. Tons of artifacts of course.
The guy's explanation was this. The native Americans were here for about 20,000 years. Assume they dropped, discarded, or lost one artifact per acre each year. Pretty dense concentration.In order to properly convert this thread to a polyasshat thread to more fully enrage the liberal left frequenting here...... (insert latest democratic blunder of your choice).
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03-31-2020, 11:04 AM #35
Our family farm is located on what was once a heavily traveled route between the coast and through the coastal range for Suislaw, Yaquina and other area tribes. Always turning up pottery shards when plowing and my uncle would tell me they would often find undamaged pots. Hate to think of how many nice artifacts we crushed under heavy machinery. Lots of arrowheads and cool old glass bottles of firewater. But grandpa's rule was you couldn't keep anything. If you find something you could examine it, draw a picture of it and make notes, then repatriate back to the earth. He'd push the arrowheads back deep into the dirt. As a kid I kept a few that I found and put them somewhere safe. 40 years later I have no idea where that somewhere safe is.
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03-31-2020, 12:02 PM #36Registered User
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My Mother’s family had a farm in Ontario from the mid 1800’s. They had so many arrow heads, spear points that they kept them in buckets. I have an awesome axe head from that farm. I remember uncles talking about keeping the prevalence of artifacts quiet. They feared that they could loose land to whatever tribe lived there if it was proved to be ancestral land. I don’t know if that was a valid concern or not
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04-01-2020, 09:59 AM #37
As a kid, we used to find arrowheads quite often around our area. I don't know that many kids are out looking, or finding, anymore but that was always a fun way to waste away an afternoon in the summer when I was 9.
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04-01-2020, 11:19 AM #38Good-lookin' wool
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04-01-2020, 12:18 PM #39
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04-01-2020, 12:25 PM #40
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04-01-2020, 12:28 PM #41
That’s not a rock, it’s a chert flake!
There is a lot of obsidian flakes scattered in the general area where I live. The closest source of obsidian is several hundred miles away and was home of other tribes. It is an indicator of commerce between different cultures.
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04-01-2020, 12:56 PM #42Registered User
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people live/lived where it was good to live or hunt or fish or farm
at the local ski hut the guide found a random tree seriously in the middle of nowhere with a face carving, the FN had been there & made the carving on that tree hundreds of years ago
hundreds of years later buddy finds it because that path was the most logical route to travel both now and 100 yr agoLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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04-01-2020, 03:31 PM #43
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08-25-2020, 11:28 AM #44
Found this little guy in a dry stream bed this weekend. Just purchased a small cabin in the middle of nowhere Idaho and thought I spotted a piece of glass. So stoked as I've always wanted to find one. Found the larger black one last week about 5 miles away at 9500 feet, but not 100% convinced of it's authenticity.
The first one is pretty tiny, but I think it fits into this description: https://www.projectilepoints.net/Poi...g_Stemmed.html
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help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs...
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08-26-2020, 07:07 AM #45
My uncle volunteered at a university archaeology dept before the antiquities act. mainly reconstructing Anasazi pots from shard piles. He had about 20 pots in his collection. They were sold in his estate, I wound up with these however. some very nice workmanship
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08-26-2020, 09:20 AM #46sick, spiteful, bad liver
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A very old uncle, as the antiquities act was signed in 1906
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08-30-2020, 11:54 AM #47indentured servant
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what's orange and looks good on hippies?
fire
rails are for trains
If I had a dollar for every time capitalism was blamed for problems caused by the government I'd be a rich fat film maker in a baseball hat.
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08-30-2020, 12:47 PM #48
I believe the available evidence is that it was typically used for hunting.
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08-30-2020, 03:11 PM #49
Guy I work with spends lots of time out in the Eastern OR desert looking for artifacts. He found these about three months ago at Glass Buttes, a well-known knapping site about 50 miles east of Fort Rock, where a bunch of 10,000 YO sandals were found.
One on the left is a spear point, the other is a scraper or axe.
He says to look near badger holes, where they kick them out when digging tunnels
He also found a cache of 35 arrowheads in a rock crevice near Fort Rock.
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08-30-2020, 08:03 PM #50Registered User
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Not an arrowhead but a good secondary find
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