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Go to them. Get multiple eyes and experience. There are plenty of these left to find on your own. The experience of days of hunting and finding chips and scrapers then that awesome moment when you are looking down at a perfect 5 inch spearhead that no one has seen in 10,000 yrs is unforgettable. The camps are easy to find but the points are here and there lost when hunting and such and are a challenge. Springtime when the fields are being plowed is the best after a hard rain. When your eye gets good for it the creek beds are great in midsummer....

 

We have a semi deep creek valley that runs through a downtown park here.
I've thought about walking it's bands after rain..

We have a friend a few miles that says he turns up arrow heads all the time in his field..
I reckon I should study up on the creek Indians and those before them.
There is a site of a massacre of whites by the creeks around here.. but that was in the 1700s... reckon anything's around there?

 

Go to your friends field in the spring after it is plowed and has had a hard rain. The valley would be difficult, especially for a beginner. Anything there only washes out very slowly and there is too much vegetation and over growth. I have found them in creek beds but never in the valley walls or floor. After you have gotten the knack in a field your eye will see a worked piece from other rock quickly but it takes a while. By the 1700's I do not think they were using stone points anymore. The stuff in your collection hunted mammoths and other extinct animals around the ice age. The later Woodland Indians made very small stone points suitable for a bow but they are very hard to see. I used to pick up every flake I found. I have 5 gallon Culligan water jugs full of flakes. When I found my first Woodland point I went through my jugs and I had a quite a few. I just didn't realize it. I used to have a broom handle with a large nail driven in the end and snipped off to poke stuff with. It will save you a lot of bending over for leaves.....

 

An atlatl is how your big Paleo points were used. They put an amazing amount of force into a throw. https://www.google.com/search?q=atl...sYXWAhVs8IMKHTJtBjMQ_AUICygC&biw=1680&bih=917

 

Good reading in here too.... https://www.google.com/search?q=paleo+points+mammoths&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8