We have a hill like that over here in Santa Rosa to where there's tailings, workings everywhere too but luckily it's in a park so it's pretty well protected. It's not as high quality as Glass mountain. I've been wanting to document that site too. What's pretty cool is that I know some direct descendants from the relatives that were working those hills.thank you amigo.
I was thinking of you when I was making this one, very cool to hear of other spots, be interesting to start working on a real map of the Bay Area and surrounding zones, the sites ,the shell mounds, the burial grounds, gather all the info and make a real picture of the world as it was .
That's where I get my obsidian for flint knapping. Took a flint knapping class when I was at the SRJC taking Anthropology courses under Foley Benson, the curator of the Jessie Peters Museum on campus back then.
Hi Nate - I received my order from your online store today and wanted to Thank You for so many beautiful items. I was so excited to open the package ❤ Wishing you a wonderful weekend. I don’t know how often you check your email, but I sent one today, with thanks!
so glad it got there, I had just eft the location where everything is and wanted to be the one that sent it so I had to wait to get back across the state. once again you are one of the main supporters of the shop, thank you ! literally helped me pay to keep it on line. much appreciated !
Hey Nate! You’re right, those vineyards around there are just loaded with artifacts, even the hill tops of surrounding hills where the Indians would sit and factory produce points just feet deep of drops. I would often sit and just stare at the piles of worked artifacts and absorb the history without taking any. It’s so incredible. I used to live in Angwin and explored much of that area with permission of landowners. It is so cool! That’s really cool that you’re in that area!
Nate, thank you for sharing the history! I have found items in our gravel that are forms of tools. Most made out of jasper. Some are a gray color and look like grinding stones. It is always exciting to find rocks that were man made for a purpose!
Awesome video, love all the details you shared. Sad to see it disappear without it's due recognition. Thank you for sharing all of the knowledge you bring to us in every video. 😘💞💗💖
Im Sorry my friend, I was awake also posted this at 3 am my time, sleeping hurts sometimes. I am zombie right now, work , sleep , travel, film, edit, wash ,repeat, passing out each night in the AM , still with unfinished list, but not complaining, just way behind in my responses and such, I hope you are doing ok. I see every comment and message, but im just running out of time each day. please take good care of you. ❤
@@QuestForDetails Take a day off! You are worth it and the channel/ your peeps will be here. Don't burn out. You are worthy of time off and relaxation too ❤️
@QuestForDetails I'm doing ok.. stepped down from management so I will be working less.. I need breathing room. I'm hopeful that you get yourself some rest.. several locations as you travel is certainly exhausting.
Thank you so much for this vid! I’m not from Napa, but grew up in Pacifica, south of SF. I now live in Marin, so I visit that road cut pretty regularly. I’ve also found so many blanks and worked pieces there… My friend Aaron is a linguist and works closely with the Wappo people of Napa Valley. I am going to be giving these pieces back to the descendants of those who created them thousands of years ago. That’s always an option too for people if they find artifacts.
I agree, a fully peopled and civilized land from Alaska to Patagonia .with ancestors in many other parts of the world, not just Mongolia , im sure. DNA Shows Way More Than We Can even find physical traces of. im big proponent of a much longer prehistory, im willing to accept a lost history , one as long and rich as Asia and Europe , Africa...ect
Hello Nate! Great video. Very informative and interesting! Makes me want to go check out a few areas in Central Oregon that I know about. Many, many small worked chips. Also Glass Butte is only 2 hours east of my home. Will have to check out areas up there also.
I kept driving by glass butte but not stopping, ive seen shots its worth it for sure, and yes keep your eyes out ,near every camp site is usually a spot where the ground is covered in shards of tool making, I think they kept it in one are so broken glass wasn't just littering the whole sites.
We grew up in Napa. You look like your my brother Jesse C’s age. Did you know him? I watched a couple of your other videos and your face is very familiar. He was very interested in history of this sort. RIP brother.
sorry to hear of your brothers passing, im 45 and grew up there, knew a couple jesse , but not sure ......although you know how small a town it actually was so im sure if we were all there at the same time we met. I did Silverado , vintage, temescal. was/ am in a band there still also. did a lot of shows in the day.
In the course of farming in Sutter County I have found numerous obsidian arrow heads. I wonder if the native Americans in Sutter County traded with tribes in Napa County for their obsidian arrow heads. The two counties are only about 90 miles apart.
Thank you for this, obsidian is endlessly fascinating to me and as a local I've been to this site many times also, if you were to see the great obsidian flow in Oregon it will surprise you take my word for it !!
Salutation, My Friend, Nice presentation thus far, and a tale that must be told. Yes, most history is hidden....especially 'round this country. And more, something else that must be disbursed; a Volcano is a Mountain afire....that Mountain, is simply a tree stump that was not lit afire before the processes of petrification, but given another name. Most will never know the nature of this realm, nor the very land that we live upon, not to mention the creatures that inhabit this expansive plain. We do know that ash is a remnant from something burning, though one might wonder what has been burnt? But, a residue is also left behind...that concentration often burning quite slowly and at low temperatures up until water or wind extinguished the flame. So, obsidian is the cooled oils of that tree stump, cooked down and rendered into a fine purity....the hardened result a most excellent material to break and lend an edge. Know that I am not trying to put you on the spot, but, I am curious as to what you think of any my suppositions? Cheers and Blessings to You, and All Them that You call Yours!
BTW....I would think that the subject of native American flintknapping, the materials utilized, and where those originate from is a rather worthy subject that should in "no known way" should conflict with your subscribers!
@@primesspct2 Salutations, thank you and yes; isn't it strange that we can never know sky from water?....though our mutual friend shares great information here, with real hands on, boots on the ground, in the dirt work, has done us the pleasure by exploring these places, and graciously, he shares his findings regularly; lest that inkling remain ever as a mote on the wind. I find the western side of the united States utterly fascinating, so very different from my Indiana. Someone, some faction, by some malevolent design, has most cruelly pulled the mean trick of obscuring the entire history of this world, regions combined, woodlands peopled and thriving cities given back to the elememts, the erasure of so many individual realms. It is their very nature to hide those things which might expose them, so to forgo any resentment tthey might receive or resultant shame, they would rather pain the populace by shuffling people around, to simply indoctrinate the whole of them with fairytales; we have lost our names, way of life, and religion....just whom we really are. They've sought to sow discord among us all, perpetuate a fearful unease that makes us each a boogeyman one unto the other. And one can only wonder the true extent of their embarrassment; there has been no cessation to their efforts, the misdirection and coverups, for hundreds of years, and no definite end date to "the project", no boundary to the horrors and pains inflicted upon "we the victims". The saving grace; we know academe is a house of liars and they will always push mistruths....we must simply begin the hard bit; the slow disentanglement, and much forgiving of each other for things we have personally done and not that for which we have been given blame.
Don’t ever get deterred from artifact hunting. An arrowhead hunter is no criminal. Some of my most beautiful points have been cascades and even a few fluted points near Robert Louis Stevenson park. That area is a treasure of highly skilled projectile points and tools
Nate, you are excellent in your own way of describing the details of your quests! You have a huge collection that shows how the natives learned how to make arrow heads through trial and error. To me, your collection is just as awesome than finding the actual arrow head. Some of your specimens look like potentials to be knappable enough to finish it out to completion. I just love what you post because you mix your heart and soul right into the ingredients that make a video as it should be!
Got a adolescent interested in points, the last holiday he received one of Overstreets books from me, I hope it goes well with him, I think that he'll enjoy it all! Thanks for the video, my first bit of obsidian was a nugget that had a name called an Apache Tear, ya familiar with them?.... 🤠
yes for sure ! so many forms and shapes, im sure he'll have a great time, hunting things is rewarding just getting out each time no matter what . thanks for watching !
QfD, absolutely educational and great video. Thank you for educating me on the West Coast indigenous people! Brilliant! I live in a place that was once called Indian Town; now...its called town-home mess. All the trees are gone and it is very hard to find anything after the dozers moved everything. Thank you for making a video, "before". I wish I had the forethought you have.
thank you ! thats supper kind. id never charge any one for hiking with me, just very random with my planning, tending to have to wait till free moments pop up and then find best spot near by to explore. been thinking about it though , maybe I could plan meet up days in different areas and people could get together and all go for discovery hikes, it would be fun to see what we all know and can discover working together, im no expert in anything , but id give everything I know for free. email in the description is best way to get direct a hold of me. I try to keep up with comments but don't get to respond to them all.
Wow not allowed to take artifacts, that very likely will just lay there. I don't know whether thats good or bad.? I would understand if native Americans only could collect? I should check my laws here in Ohio. I never find anything really good, my ex was very good at spotting them. I always just seem to come home with "pretty rocks" for my flowerbed! It doesn't stop me from looking ( on private land with permission) I do find a whole lot of worked flint here, but so far just scrapers etc. Once I found a tiny bird point made out of pink flint or chert. My ex has it in his collection which is really a nice one. I also found a mortar once. Those are best finds. it just fascinated me to think of the human hands that have touched this and lovingly worked it, whatever the artifact may be. I would dearly love to find obsidian, which had been potentially traded from Cali all the way here in Ohio. I know a few select items are in collections here. I am quite obviously not well schooled. I am a busy lady but late winter and early spring will find me walking the fields around my house.
@@ColleenHatton-r7y there is a local council , most wer forcefully moved or killed as it is in the immediate bay area , but there are survivors, and local representation in each of these valleys.they do what they can to hold and preserve, and im very proud of our local council. But all this land was inhabited and heavily populated, and now only mere fractions left and fighting to hold tiny chunks of land. This hill rises from the heart of napa valley endless vineyards, a last hint of what was before, being swept even now under the carpet of grapes.
@ I was just asking because my grandmother is Modoc. I always wanted to visit the Modoc National forest. I was unaware they were on the at area but it makes sense. My dad is in Vallejo and often duck hunted in the marshes. Grandmother Wehe lived in Sacto when I met her. It always makes me Sad to see history disappear. It’s happening where ilI moved to as well. Forests get cut down and we have all these new housing tracts going up over the top of old dumps and where there were cowboys there were Indians as so I have found when out exploring. Im a little jealous and anxious looking at your collection. If only I could reach out and hold a piece of that part of my ancestors. Im glad I came across your video.
@@bobdoodle6527 like its funny that sage has become So popular that some sages are almost gone? People see stuff on the Internet and with sage for example it can be harvested And bundled and with the uptick of “witches” there is a shortage of sage on Cali. I saw a question here asking what obsidian is worth. If everyone got a handful it would change the mountain. I live in a forest and over the years I’ve seen the forest change because of side by sides. i recently saw petroglyphs i visit often and someone has tried to cut through a wall of rock to cit a thunderbird. There’s also an old Cabin near me that I love and someone cut the door handles out of the door, and has taken the ceiling boards out. I don’t post anything about where I go or what I find as a way of protecting it. Not stepping on any toes and appreciate stumbling across the video. People most often ruin a good thing in my experience.
Brilliant job allways injoy haveing a good catch up 👍 😊😊😊😊
ive been out digging the loot, got some good metal vids coming up, thanks for stopping by my friend ! cheers !
We have a hill like that over here in Santa Rosa to where there's tailings, workings everywhere too but luckily it's in a park so it's pretty well protected. It's not as high quality as Glass mountain. I've been wanting to document that site too. What's pretty cool is that I know some direct descendants from the relatives that were working those hills.thank you amigo.
I was thinking of you when I was making this one, very cool to hear of other spots, be interesting to start working on a real map of the Bay Area and surrounding zones, the sites ,the shell mounds, the burial grounds, gather all the info and make a real picture of the world as it was .
Yeah that's a great idea I know a few sites over here. Before some of them get completely erased.
I'm glad you are so respectful of the indigenous footprint on the land and are sharing this great history
Thanks
happy autumn !
That's where I get my obsidian for flint knapping. Took a flint knapping class when I was at the SRJC taking Anthropology courses under Foley Benson, the curator of the Jessie Peters Museum on campus back then.
Hi Nate - I received my order from your online store today and wanted to Thank You for so many beautiful items. I was so excited to open the package ❤ Wishing you a wonderful weekend. I don’t know how often you check your email, but I sent one today, with thanks!
so glad it got there, I had just eft the location where everything is and wanted to be the one that sent it so I had to wait to get back across the state. once again you are one of the main supporters of the shop, thank you ! literally helped me pay to keep it on line. much appreciated !
Hey Nate! You’re right, those vineyards around there are just loaded with artifacts, even the hill tops of surrounding hills where the Indians would sit and factory produce points just feet deep of drops. I would often sit and just stare at the piles of worked artifacts and absorb the history without taking any. It’s so incredible. I used to live in Angwin and explored much of that area with permission of landowners. It is so cool! That’s really cool that you’re in that area!
Nate, thank you for sharing the history! I have found items in our gravel that are forms of tools. Most made out of jasper. Some are a gray color and look like grinding stones. It is always exciting to find rocks that were man made for a purpose!
yes the shapes will be similar but the minerals can differ, I always say find the sharpest stone in the area and look for tips made from that.
Awesome video, love all the details you shared. Sad to see it disappear without it's due recognition. Thank you for sharing all of the knowledge you bring to us in every video. 😘💞💗💖
thats why I figured might as well tell what I know and then at least I didn't help it be forgotten. happy autumn !
Such a great story and adventure. So happy you shared this ❤
hopefully just the start, I have so many things ive found , I need to try and show more of what was here before.
Good morning my friend... couldn't sleep tossed all night so I got up for a bit.. it's going to be a long day.
Remember to give yourself grace today ❤ take frequent breaks and recharge when you can
Im Sorry my friend, I was awake also posted this at 3 am my time, sleeping hurts sometimes. I am zombie right now, work , sleep , travel, film, edit, wash ,repeat, passing out each night in the AM , still with unfinished list, but not complaining, just way behind in my responses and such, I hope you are doing ok. I see every comment and message, but im just running out of time each day. please take good care of you. ❤
@@QuestForDetails Take a day off! You are worth it and the channel/ your peeps will be here. Don't burn out. You are worthy of time off and relaxation too ❤️
@QuestForDetails I'm doing ok.. stepped down from management so I will be working less.. I need breathing room.
I'm hopeful that you get yourself some rest.. several locations as you travel is certainly exhausting.
Thank you so much for this vid! I’m not from Napa, but grew up in Pacifica, south of SF. I now live in Marin, so I visit that road cut pretty regularly. I’ve also found so many blanks and worked pieces there… My friend Aaron is a linguist and works closely with the Wappo people of Napa Valley. I am going to be giving these pieces back to the descendants of those who created them thousands of years ago. That’s always an option too for people if they find artifacts.
Hi Nate. Great video with a wonderful historical background to it. Always a good day when you make a Quest for Details.
thank you ! going down my list of things I paused on at first, the dirt keeps telling me incredible stories, feels like I got to pass it on.
Will follow your page
thank you for the support !!
Land brigde wasn't the only route.
The ocean to the columia.
They did also.
Early Polynesian and indigenous
I agree, a fully peopled and civilized land from Alaska to Patagonia .with ancestors in many other parts of the world, not just Mongolia , im sure. DNA Shows Way More Than We Can even find physical traces of. im big proponent of a much longer prehistory, im willing to accept a lost history , one as long and rich as Asia and Europe , Africa...ect
Happy Wednesday! Thank you for the geology lessons of the day too
thanks for questing along !
Hello Nate! Great video. Very informative and interesting! Makes me want to go check out a few areas in Central Oregon that I know about. Many, many small worked chips. Also Glass Butte is only 2 hours east of my home. Will have to check out areas up there also.
I kept driving by glass butte but not stopping, ive seen shots its worth it for sure, and yes keep your eyes out ,near every camp site is usually a spot where the ground is covered in shards of tool making, I think they kept it in one are so broken glass wasn't just littering the whole sites.
We grew up in Napa. You look like your my brother Jesse C’s age. Did you know him? I watched a couple of your other videos and your face is very familiar.
He was very interested in history of this sort. RIP brother.
sorry to hear of your brothers passing, im 45 and grew up there, knew a couple jesse , but not sure ......although you know how small a town it actually was so im sure if we were all there at the same time we met. I did Silverado , vintage, temescal. was/ am in a band there still also. did a lot of shows in the day.
Love your videos!
In the course of farming in Sutter County I have found numerous obsidian arrow heads. I wonder if the native Americans in Sutter County traded with tribes in Napa County for their obsidian arrow heads. The two counties are only about 90 miles apart.
Thank you for this, obsidian is endlessly fascinating to me and as a local I've been to this site many times also, if you were to see the great obsidian flow in Oregon it will surprise you take my word for it !!
You have done your part by documenting this important site, thankyou
Salutation, My Friend,
Nice presentation thus far, and a tale that must be told. Yes, most history is hidden....especially 'round this country. And more, something else that must be disbursed; a Volcano is a Mountain afire....that Mountain, is simply a tree stump that was not lit afire before the processes of petrification, but given another name. Most will never know the nature of this realm, nor the very land that we live upon, not to mention the creatures that inhabit this expansive plain. We do know that ash is a remnant from something burning, though one might wonder what has been burnt?
But, a residue is also left behind...that concentration often burning quite slowly and at low temperatures up until water or wind extinguished the flame. So, obsidian is the cooled oils of that tree stump, cooked down and rendered into a fine purity....the hardened result a most excellent material to break and lend an edge.
Know that I am not trying to put you on the spot, but, I am curious as to what you think of any my suppositions?
Cheers and Blessings to You,
and All Them that You call Yours!
BTW....I would think that the subject of native American flintknapping, the materials utilized, and where those originate from is a rather worthy subject that should in "no known way" should conflict with your subscribers!
blessings! fascinating comment. I didn't know, exactly that. I of course knew it was volcanic.
@@primesspct2
Salutations, thank you and yes; isn't it strange that we can never know sky from water?....though our mutual friend shares great information here, with real hands on, boots on the ground, in the dirt work, has done us the pleasure by exploring these places, and graciously, he shares his findings regularly; lest that inkling remain ever as a mote on the wind.
I find the western side of the united States utterly fascinating, so very different from my Indiana. Someone, some faction, by some malevolent design, has most cruelly pulled the mean trick of obscuring the entire history of this world, regions combined, woodlands peopled and thriving cities given back to the elememts, the erasure of so many individual realms. It is their very nature to hide those things which might expose them, so to forgo any resentment tthey might receive or resultant shame, they would rather pain the populace by shuffling people around, to simply indoctrinate the whole of them with fairytales; we have lost our names, way of life, and religion....just whom we really are. They've sought to sow discord among us all, perpetuate a fearful unease that makes us each a boogeyman one unto the other. And one can only wonder the true extent of their embarrassment; there has been no cessation to their efforts, the misdirection and coverups, for hundreds of years, and no definite end date to "the project", no boundary to the horrors and pains inflicted upon "we the victims".
The saving grace; we know academe is a house of liars and they will always push mistruths....we must simply begin the hard bit; the slow disentanglement, and much forgiving of each other for things we have personally done and not that for which we have been given blame.
thank you So much my friend !!
@@QuestForDetails all thanks is due to you, so right back atcha....like a projectile loosed from a side piece of Ricochet Rabbit!
Don’t ever get deterred from artifact hunting. An arrowhead hunter is no criminal. Some of my most beautiful points have been cascades and even a few fluted points near Robert Louis Stevenson park. That area is a treasure of highly skilled projectile points and tools
Nate, you are excellent in your own way of describing the details of your quests! You have a huge collection that shows how the natives learned how to make arrow heads through trial and error. To me, your collection is just as awesome than finding the actual arrow head. Some of your specimens look like potentials to be knappable enough to finish it out to completion. I just love what you post because you mix your heart and soul right into the ingredients that make a video as it should be!
Got a adolescent interested in points, the last holiday he received one of Overstreets books from me, I hope it goes well with him, I think that he'll enjoy it all! Thanks for the video, my first bit of obsidian was a nugget that had a name called an Apache Tear, ya familiar with them?.... 🤠
yes for sure ! so many forms and shapes, im sure he'll have a great time, hunting things is rewarding just getting out each time no matter what . thanks for watching !
QfD, absolutely educational and great video. Thank you for educating me on the West Coast indigenous people! Brilliant! I live in a place that was once called Indian Town; now...its called town-home mess. All the trees are gone and it is very hard to find anything after the dozers moved everything. Thank you for making a video, "before". I wish I had the forethought you have.
Very educational!
thank you !
Thank you very much ❤
One man's trash ( debitage ) is another man's treasure. This rocks 🪨 Bro
I would pay money to go out on a mission with u. Is that possible, what I can learn and pass on would be amazing
thank you ! thats supper kind. id never charge any one for hiking with me, just very random with my planning, tending to have to wait till free moments pop up and then find best spot near by to explore. been thinking about it though , maybe I could plan meet up days in different areas and people could get together and all go for discovery hikes, it would be fun to see what we all know and can discover working together, im no expert in anything , but id give everything I know for free. email in the description is best way to get direct a hold of me. I try to keep up with comments but don't get to respond to them all.
Looks like you’re up on Bournemouth at Tricheros
Literally, History in the dirt. H. H. G. B🙂💛🙏
Awsome bro !!!!!!!!!!!!!
thank you !
Wow not allowed to take artifacts, that very likely will just lay there. I don't know whether thats good or bad.? I would understand if native Americans only could collect? I should check my laws here in Ohio. I never find anything really good, my ex was very good at spotting them. I always just seem to come home with "pretty rocks" for my flowerbed! It doesn't stop me from looking ( on private land with permission)
I do find a whole lot of worked flint here, but so far just scrapers etc. Once I found a tiny bird point made out of pink flint or chert. My ex has it in his collection which is really a nice one. I also found a mortar once. Those are best finds.
it just fascinated me to think of the human hands that have touched this and lovingly worked it, whatever the artifact may be. I would dearly love to find obsidian, which had been potentially traded from Cali all the way here in Ohio. I know a few select items are in collections here.
I am quite obviously not well schooled. I am a busy lady but late winter and early spring will find me walking the fields around my house.
Obsidian can also develop a grey patina from just being very old from the elements through a process called de vitrification
I would think that those items are quite sharp, and one should be careful handling them. I have cut myself with flint, so I cant imagine obsidian.
yes for sure ! sharp as flint, beyond razors edge. they gave me pretty cut proof hands though so im pretty safe.
The other neat thing you can collect there are the cristobalite cones!
I live where the last true native was introduced into society, so this is cool to see.
How much can you sell obsidian for ?
How can you tell when something is a toss down?
Ahh u explained I was impatient haha. Great video thx
You can't change the past, being angry about it or screaming at people who had nothing to do with it is beyond ridiculous and childish.. Great job.
Who is angry and screaming ?
Not sure what yer on about friend..
Is anyone here Native American?
@@ColleenHatton-r7y there is a local council , most wer forcefully moved or killed as it is in the immediate bay area , but there are survivors, and local representation in each of these valleys.they do what they can to hold and preserve, and im very proud of our local council. But all this land was inhabited and heavily populated, and now only mere fractions left and fighting to hold tiny chunks of land. This hill rises from the heart of napa valley endless vineyards, a last hint of what was before, being swept even now under the carpet of grapes.
@ I was just asking because my grandmother is Modoc. I always wanted to visit the Modoc National forest. I was unaware they were on the at area but it makes sense. My dad is in Vallejo and often duck hunted in the marshes. Grandmother Wehe lived in Sacto when I met her. It always makes me
Sad to see history disappear. It’s happening where ilI moved to as well. Forests get cut down and we have all these new housing tracts going up over the top of old dumps and where there were cowboys there were Indians as so I have found when out exploring. Im a little jealous and anxious looking at your collection. If only I could reach out and hold a piece of that part of my ancestors. Im glad I came across your video.
@ When he was younger they lived in Fairfield but with a step mom. Now I will be reaching out to a cousin so I can find out more about the Modoc.
...and you just let every looter in the country know what most of us already knew, but kept our mouths shut so it would be ravaged....nice of you
Are stones considered artifacts? As if collecting those stones just a handful will completely destroy the mountain so it makes it illegal, funny.
@@bobdoodle6527 like its funny that sage has become So popular that some sages are almost gone? People see stuff on the Internet and with sage for example it can be harvested
And bundled and with the uptick of “witches” there is a shortage of sage on Cali. I saw a question here asking what obsidian is worth. If everyone got a handful it would change the mountain. I live in a forest and over the years I’ve seen the forest change because of side by sides. i recently saw petroglyphs i visit often and someone has tried to cut through a wall of rock to cit a thunderbird. There’s also an old
Cabin near me that I love and someone cut the door handles out of the door, and has taken the ceiling boards out. I don’t post anything about where I go or what I find as a way of protecting it. Not stepping on any toes and appreciate stumbling across the video. People most often ruin a good thing in my experience.
that water on hot obsidian is complete and absolute BS!!!
@@truthsayer35 I had never heard that either. I was shaking my head in disbelief but I’m always up to learn.