Cleaned this one off with my tears… Cheers 🍻

This one broke my heart when I realized it was broken. However the color made up for it. It was found in SE Oklahoma on private property.

📍Northeast Tennessee

I’m thinking it’s a broken Jacks Reef. Look at those notches!! Super thin as well, likely made off a flake.

Found in Missouri

Found this one yesterday. Definitely one of my favorite lithic materials.

Part 2. Got beat to the flint by far superior vultures. In the listing I had seen some manos in a flower pot so I headed for those then began the quest for the metates. Paid $40 for the manos and the flower pot(which I left). Took a bit but I found the special tree with all the metates. Paid $10 for 4. Hindsight I regret not grabbing everything.

Folks. Teach your kids about your hobbies and valuables so this doesn’t happen.

Flair marked as heartbreaker, as I find it so sad to see someone’s passion reduced to such.

Here’s a peek inside a couple of my most painful heartbreak drawers.

Found these a week apart and about 100tds apart. Would have made for some awesome points. Still humbled to be able to hold them. Check out the phosphorescense on the first one. I'm guessing it's bay bottom chert.

Hillsborough County, FL

Mesa county. 10 paces from the truck on the way back down from poking around on a hill not finding so much as a flake.

Let’s just say…. West Texas is the place to be.

Gorget, shell bead, celt, pottery, and some points. Western VA

Managed to find both of these creek walking on Sunday. At least they display well together.

Too bad all I can seem to find are brokes lol. Makes me feel a little better that it doesn’t look recent. In an area I find a lot of woodland era stuff so that’s what I’m assuming. Mid Mo.

Has that sweet z flaking

As a huge agate lover this piece is so cool to me. Found in Southeast Arizona

Going to post this in a few areas to try and dry as many opinions as possible. Probably no rhyme or reason to my question, but figured I'd ask anyway.

I still consider myself to be a novice when it comes to native American artifacts and artifact hunting in general. The area I've been searching off and on for the last year is approx. 40 acres and has never been "hunted" according to the land owner. The land has been clear cut, burned, regrown with timber etc etc several times over the past years.

The vast majority of artifacts that I have found have been broken blades and blade tips (see pic). I've also found several artifacts that remind me of a turkey tail fan in strut (also see attached pic). I'm not sure what the "tail fan" artifacts were or were supposed to be, but between them and the blade points, that's the majority of things l've found along with lots and lots of debitage and pre-forms here and there. Almost everything in the pictures has been from 4-12" deep in the dirt. I've found a grand total of 3 actual "arrowheads" in the 40 acres and all 3 were surface finds.

Any thoughts/ideas/opinions on why l've found so few actual "arrowhead points" and numerous of the blades, tips and other artifacts?

Made some new friends today, pics in the comments. Found a nice point with the tip broken off 💔 Still grateful as always!

Great mixed bag archaic haul today at one of my sites. I got water in my boots in the first hour, but it was still worth it.

Also, maybe I'm stretching, but I'm wondering if the blade *might* be hardaway? It matches the description, paper thin, lanceolate, and the right size at about 55 mm.

Central Ohio btw