Arrowhead found on my property this fall , just thought I'd share
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Where is your property, approximately?
Near a body of water?
Near a body of water?
Michigan , water everywhere here . I have a nice river on my property about 70 ft wide , who knows what it looked like when this was created. Research tells me it's 6000 to 8,000 years old
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Truly fascinating find.
Cool.
As a kid I attended School 18, the Abraham Lincoln school, in the Bates-Hendricks area of the Southeast side of Indianapolis. There was a concrete plaque on the exterior of the school declaring - "Until 1814 (?) here was the camp of the Delaware Indians". Not sure of the exact date, but it was very early 19th century.
Never thought of it as a kid, but it was kind of amazing there was a camp (not a reservation) of Indians still there about the time Indiana became a state. - 1816.
Very neat find! Thanks for sharing.
Side note: These folks must of been pretty hardy. I mean how many slips of that rock just to nab the thumb or something. No hospital just grin & bear it. Civilized society has it's downfalls but I'd say we're pretty lucky to be born in our time.
Side note: These folks must of been pretty hardy. I mean how many slips of that rock just to nab the thumb or something. No hospital just grin & bear it. Civilized society has it's downfalls but I'd say we're pretty lucky to be born in our time.
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Good story , I know here in Michigan at the time of the war of 1812 it was still a wild place . My family got here in the 1770s and I'm so lucky that the generations kept correspondence and family records together . And some tall tales of skirmishes with the native Americans .
I'm pretty sure by the mid 1700s most Indian tools were made of steel . When I was told by a gentleman at a local museum the age of this point it was hard to believe it survived 6 to 8,000 years without being damaged.
I'd say we're all pretty lucky there fantastic , we got a pretty easy these days . I think they used a lot of leather to protect themselves while making the point . Archaic period time frame is what I was told it was made .
How would you like to get that along side your head . It looks like a weapon more than a tool to me .
An ancestor of the maker will be knocking on your door any moment now to claim it since you posted it.
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Take it to a casino 
I live close to an ancient burial mound up on a bluff over the Missouri River. It dates back 1,000 years and there are other sites nearby as well. Lots of arrowheads in this area but I’ve never found or really looked for one. I think it’s cool to find that stuff and will have to go turn a few shovels along the creek bank with my kids sometime.
People lived in that area 8000 years ago?
As the glaciers melted the animals came in and the hunters followed is the way I understand it
Wow, never knew that. I would have thought more like 800 years old
Your welcome
