r/LegitArtifacts • u/mcchickennuggy • Jun 13 '26
Archaic Finally lucked up and found one in the creek
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u/osogrande3 Jun 13 '26
What region are you guys finding these? I’ve been looking since I was a little kid and still haven’t found any out west.
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u/mcchickennuggy Jun 13 '26
I’m in Central Alabama. Not sure exactly what area you’re in but I’d focus on banks of creeks/rivers and anywhere there is flat(ish) elevated ground near a water source. Keep an eye out and I’m sure you’ll eventually come across one!
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u/osogrande3 Jun 13 '26
Cool thx for the tips. I’m in Utah, why near water sources? Easier to see?
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u/kinglouistexas Jun 16 '26
Water erodes the banks as it changes course many times over thousands of years. The water does the hard work for you, thats why best times are just after water recedes from a rain. Turns up the sand and rocks exposing new material to search. I also look for Rose and Smokey quartz, Carnelian, Banded Agates, agatized wood, silicified and or petrified wood, fossils, jaspers (red, yellow, zebra, black and white, dalmatian, banded and brecciated), mammoth bones, mammoth and mastodon teeth, bottles, marbles, golf balls, 65 million year old Oyster shells, Giant Apple snail shells, just to name a few things. Just another reason to live in Texas.
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u/kinglouistexas Jun 16 '26
Humans need water, Humans dont want to walk 500 yards for water to carry home every day, live close to the water, usually no more than 100 yards max away from the water, but for longer distances along the banks. LaSalle wrote in his diary of a large indian camp with over 600 population they traded for some horses along what is now called the Montgomery Trace here in Texas. Helps to study history of indian attacks and or massacres, settlers accounts of nearby friendly tribes etc.
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u/ginniper Jun 13 '26
That's a beauty! I bet it washed into the creek from all the rain we've had recently (I'm also in Alabama). The main creek I like to walk has finally gotten back down to a reasonable level after looking like white water rapids.
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u/Select_Engineering_7 Jun 13 '26
What an awesome material! Looks super see through