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« on: June 24, 2010, 10:43:04 am »
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There's a nice picture of the Clovis point and the lucky finder. Sue

 

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Incredible find:
Record arrowhead discovered in western Kentucky creek

By KYSER LOUGH

Staff Writer

For Darrel Higgins, finding an ancient arrowhead in a creek isn't surprising, it's actually expected. Finding a record-setting artifact that dates back to an estimated 14,000 to 18,000 years? Definitely unexpected.

Higgins has been hunting creek beds for artifacts since he began finding them on farmland when he was a child. But nothing he had found compared to the 9 3/4 inch by 2 3/4 inch specimen he recently found in western Kentucky. The item, described as a clovis point made of buffalo river chert, was submerged in a creek bed when Higgins stumbled upon it.


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« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2010, 10:48:55 am »
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Very cool......

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« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2010, 11:44:13 am »
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Yeah thats a dang big arrowhead...

Love to find a point like that, all mine are busted and much smaller.

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« Reply #3 on: June 24, 2010, 06:57:38 pm »
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Very interesting Sue. One that size I might see, although I think one has to have a calibrated eye for arrowheads. I have a friend that will pick several just walking accross a plowed field and I can walk next to jim and find NaDa.


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« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2010, 08:04:21 am »
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I'm the same way, Mudflap  Smiley Some people seem to have a "radar" or trained eye for spotting them. I always appreciate when members take a photo of one, as it is, before they pick it up. Sue


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« Reply #5 on: June 25, 2010, 08:18:15 am »
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a buddy of mine who hunts arrowheads told a good way to train your eye is if you find one,put it back where ya found it walk away a few feet and then look at it on the ground,hes says once ya do that ya kind of get a feel for them

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« Reply #6 on: June 25, 2010, 08:31:29 am »
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That's an excellent idea - maybe kind of look at it from different directions to learn to 'see'. Neat! Sue

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« Reply #7 on: June 25, 2010, 08:41:03 am »
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Good idea, Bomber. Will give it a try.


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« Reply #8 on: June 25, 2010, 01:36:32 pm »
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All the ones I have found never looked like an arrowhead lying in the ground. Usually its just a shiny bit of rock peeking out that catches my eye. I pick up a lot of Leavirite looking for good ones. Grin

Like Bomber says though after a while they start to stand out.

I recently took a friend to this spot where the winter runoff had cut a deep narrow trench down the hillside. She thought it was a bogus spot till she came up with a half spear point, then it was all good Smiley Still nothing like the one in Kentucky though.



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« Reply #9 on: June 25, 2010, 07:47:40 pm »
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If ya ever get out around WPA check out the Meadowcroft Rockshelter, the oldest site of human habitation in North America. I used to live near there and went many times in the middle 70s. They were just starting the serious stuff and visitors were welcome but kept out of the digs. I guess now they have a visitor center etc.


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