Im living in the Tx. Hillcountry I just got offered here in my little hometown in central Texas to go on a 158 acres ranch in Art Tx. My 11year old son and a friend of his me and my father inlaw.... I want to go for arrowheads ,Crystal ,deer horn drops , strait cedar for walking sticks.feathers for decorating my crafty stuff. Think our first time out , stake out the place , find creek beds, biggest old trees . Dark dirt where a fire was made a long time ago. Those are my little tricks to find stuff , oldest biggest tree out there , you know sombody 2hundred years ago napped under that tree , mite have got drunk loosing buttons ,pocket change,knives ect .look for signs of flint and burnt soil. My son and I are excited, we will pack a cooler full of drinks and sandwiches make a couple walkin sticks with the tip pronged out for the rattlesnakes.hope we do good . If not it's all about getting deep into it ,,,away from the noise , into the wildlife sounds that are good for us all .drag the o'lady out there for some of it . I'm sure she will hang for a couple hours. We might throw up a tarp tpee tent... I'll suprise him with that , just a huge canvas tarp 8 long poles or so, . That's campin 156 acres has cattle on it . Tomarro I'll look for the stuff to make a tepee wish I had a metal detector...fun fun fun ...edit.: I'm out of Mason Tx.arpund here they are everywhere... I worked in streeter building on to a good friend's home on 4000 acres land goes all the way down to the Llano river . By the bluehole. Anywhere you park out there , you stop throw the door open and look down 9 out of ten you see one before getting out of the truck . Many indian bariul mounds the hogs seem to sleep and stay in the area where the mounds are. I got attacked just after finding the mounds I unloaded on a hog that was 6 feet away chomping his teeth blew the bottom jaw into pieces and it was still chomping hard.with it shattered. Its dangerous but worth it. He has a cave up on a bluff over the river , they drove me out there , hard to get to , climbing but shocked when I got in it . The indian animal carvings and paintings on the cave walls was beautiful. He passed away , nobodys aloud out there now. I know where alot of the hotspots are . When he was alive he told me to come on , anytime . Never did . Bummer .. so I'll go explore Art real soon before it gets to cold...
What your calling root beer flint is actively Knife River Flint from Knife River, North Dakota the only place it comes from so it was traded to the people who made those points. It is from the western side of North Dakota. Just wanted to let you know encase you didn't know. I live in the Black Hills of South Dakota and we find a lot of Knife River Flint here.
I would love to share some of my finds and see what you think...I am in NorthTexas and believe I have found animal effigies as well as some other things... Would love input from you. Thank you for your response.
I've had people offer me money to search my property for arrowheads. I live in the hills of Glen Rose, the old moonshine capital of Texas. Natives used to sit and watch from the tops of the hills in my backyard. I have no clue how to go about hunting, hopefully your videos help.
It's frustrating watch you dig with that big pick instead of smaller hand tools and beautiful pieces that survived thousands of years are getting chipped and broken.
Beautiful stuff! That Kerrville knife is sweet and that langtry is killer! Great place yall got down there. I can't wait till TJ Jennings opens up his dig down in that country this January.
Thanks for the comment. Where abouts is TJ going to be opening up a dig at? I've always wanted to do a screen dig with the family but have never got around to it.
I hunt out of London and have found some nice surface finds of some frio points. How and where do you know where to dig for arrowheads? We do have a dry creek bed running through the ranch. Any tips or pointers. How deep to dig?? Thanks
Just a quick question,what is the significance of the snail shells in relation to the artifacts? I have hunted for points all of my life and have never heard the connection between the two.
Pre-form. I've always heard that worked larger pieces were pre-forms. Just like what you found. Recently an archeologist made a video of a cache of very similar pieces. They found traces of horse meat on one, buffalo on another and camel on a third. It has been thousands of years since there were camel here in the U.S. , so they were very old. This shows that larger pieces like the one you found were not pre-forms but skinning/butchering tools. So folks, don't discard those so called pre-forms. From what I saw...the more worked such a piece is the more likely it was a complete tool, not a pre-form.
I agree, pre-form is a overused term for an already well shaped large ovate biface or uniface scrapers or small hand axes, I enjoy finding the hand axes and other tools moreso than just points. Seeing how many dart points are found there I would be tempted to dig down a few feet more while carefully observing the strata for signs of any older occupation layers that may exist, like the Gault site, you may find a Clovis layer and even deeper below Clovis are often much older occupational layers with fewer points and more tools.
I thought you weren't allowed to hunt points in Texas.Something about an antiquities act.I live in Ohio, but spend a lot of time in San Antonio, and Corpus Christi. I love Texas, but 9 months out of the year, it's too damn hot to fish.Maybe that's better than freezing your butt off, but I can't take the heat very well.Have a lot of those exotics animals taken over? I was fishing in Baffin Bay once, and saw a damn zebra on the shoreline.Weird.
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Awesome man , great finds thanks for sharing
Im living in the Tx. Hillcountry I just got offered here in my little hometown in central Texas to go on a 158 acres ranch in Art Tx. My 11year old son and a friend of his me and my father inlaw.... I want to go for arrowheads ,Crystal ,deer horn drops , strait cedar for walking sticks.feathers for decorating my crafty stuff. Think our first time out , stake out the place , find creek beds, biggest old trees . Dark dirt where a fire was made a long time ago. Those are my little tricks to find stuff , oldest biggest tree out there , you know sombody 2hundred years ago napped under that tree , mite have got drunk loosing buttons ,pocket change,knives ect .look for signs of flint and burnt soil. My son and I are excited, we will pack a cooler full of drinks and sandwiches make a couple walkin sticks with the tip pronged out for the rattlesnakes.hope we do good . If not it's all about getting deep into it ,,,away from the noise , into the wildlife sounds that are good for us all .drag the o'lady out there for some of it . I'm sure she will hang for a couple hours. We might throw up a tarp tpee tent... I'll suprise him with that , just a huge canvas tarp 8 long poles or so, . That's campin 156 acres has cattle on it . Tomarro I'll look for the stuff to make a tepee wish I had a metal detector...fun fun fun ...edit.: I'm out of Mason Tx.arpund here they are everywhere... I worked in streeter building on to a good friend's home on 4000 acres land goes all the way down to the Llano river . By the bluehole. Anywhere you park out there , you stop throw the door open and look down 9 out of ten you see one before getting out of the truck . Many indian bariul mounds the hogs seem to sleep and stay in the area where the mounds are. I got attacked just after finding the mounds I unloaded on a hog that was 6 feet away chomping his teeth blew the bottom jaw into pieces and it was still chomping hard.with it shattered. Its dangerous but worth it. He has a cave up on a bluff over the river , they drove me out there , hard to get to , climbing but shocked when I got in it . The indian animal carvings and paintings on the cave walls was beautiful. He passed away , nobodys aloud out there now. I know where alot of the hotspots are . When he was alive he told me to come on , anytime . Never did . Bummer .. so I'll go explore Art real soon before it gets to cold...
this looks fun! being the first person to pick up an arrowhead after thousands of years! and in the hill country! thumbs up!
What your calling root beer flint is actively Knife River Flint from Knife River, North Dakota the only place it comes from so it was traded to the people who made those points. It is from the western side of North Dakota. Just wanted to let you know encase you didn't know. I live in the Black Hills of South Dakota and we find a lot of Knife River Flint here.
What an exciting day!
I would love to share some of my finds and see what you think...I am in NorthTexas and believe I have found animal effigies as well as some other things... Would love input from you. Thank you for your response.
That dark flint blade is insane! Thanks for sharing!
The first are is a Kerrville knife lol
I've had people offer me money to search my property for arrowheads. I live in the hills of Glen Rose, the old moonshine capital of Texas. Natives used to sit and watch from the tops of the hills in my backyard. I have no clue how to go about hunting, hopefully your videos help.
Love those hill country digs!! Cool stuff
It's frustrating watch you dig with that big pick instead of smaller hand tools and beautiful pieces that survived thousands of years are getting chipped and broken.
Great video. Just found your channel and looking forward to seeing more from that dig spot. Very cool hand ax. Congrats on a nice day with the family.
Beautiful stuff! That Kerrville knife is sweet and that langtry is killer! Great place yall got down there. I can't wait till TJ Jennings opens up his dig down in that country this January.
Thanks for the comment. Where abouts is TJ going to be opening up a dig at? I've always wanted to do a screen dig with the family but have never got around to it.
Great stuff! Thanks for sharing!
Great day! Makes me wanna hunt in tx some more.
William
wow some awesome sweet stuff you found there keep the vids coming
That Kerrville is killer! Sweet video.
I hunt out of London and have found some nice surface finds of some frio points. How and where do you know where to dig for arrowheads? We do have a dry creek bed running through the ranch. Any tips or pointers. How deep to dig?? Thanks
Just a quick question,what is the significance of the snail shells in relation to the artifacts? I have hunted for points all of my life and have never heard the connection between the two.
Midden pile/kitchen midden/village refuse heap. usually bones,shells, and stone tools. 8 years for answer...lol.
I'm more of a metal detectorist, but I would love to come out and hunt for arrowheads...
Awesome finds man,
Pre-form. I've always heard that worked larger pieces were pre-forms. Just like what you found. Recently an archeologist made a video of a cache of very similar pieces. They found traces of horse meat on one, buffalo on another and camel on a third. It has been thousands of years since there were camel here in the U.S. , so they were very old. This shows that larger pieces like the one you found were not pre-forms but skinning/butchering tools. So folks, don't discard those so called pre-forms. From what I saw...the more worked such a piece is the more likely it was a complete tool, not a pre-form.
I agree, pre-form is a overused term for an already well shaped large ovate biface or uniface scrapers or small hand axes, I enjoy finding the hand axes and other tools moreso than just points. Seeing how many dart points are found there I would be tempted to dig down a few feet more while carefully observing the strata for signs of any older occupation layers that may exist, like the Gault site, you may find a Clovis layer and even deeper below Clovis are often much older occupational layers with fewer points and more tools.
Hill County is a great place to hunt
One word, JEALOUS!!!!!!
An assumption snails were food an abundance of them indicates a campsite.
The slender thing is a knife
I thought you weren't allowed to hunt points in Texas.Something about an antiquities act.I live in Ohio, but spend a lot of time in San Antonio, and Corpus Christi. I love Texas, but 9 months out of the year, it's too damn hot to fish.Maybe that's better than freezing your butt off, but I can't take the heat very well.Have a lot of those exotics animals taken over? I was fishing in Baffin Bay once, and saw a damn zebra on the shoreline.Weird.
Can you pay dig there and where bou ::) s. Y'all are awesome. Beautiful finds my two kids would flip.
I talk to myself a lot..sometimes I feel the need of an intelligent conversation and no back lip😏
Or a spear head
Cried like a minority getting kicked off unemployment? Really dude? You just lost a viewer.
He gained one thanks for that comment. Relax and learn to laugh.