Laying right out in the open again. Rain tonight and tomorrow and that will really help.

Nice....I never found a tanged one, all we seem to have here are triangular white quartzite points

Nice find

Nice find!

That makes my putter flutter. Just try to imagine how long ago and who's hand was that in?
I grew up in Pawnee country.

Nice one

Can you identify what is different about where you find them? Why are you finding them there?

Would that be the Sioux up your way?

Most artifact collectors agree that Illinois is the best state for finding quality Native American artifacts. You are certainly doing your part to make it look that way.

Keith

The Sioux were Minnesotans until they moved west, southwest on to the plains. That's why they didn't have firearms! They were democrats!

Any high spot in a field. Close to the river I think is better chances but this place is a ways from the river and it has produced well. If it’s a bigger area it takes some time. New places I walk back and forth kinda crisscrossing and looking for flakes and chips. If I start spotting them I slow down and look over the area very closely. I imagine you could find an arrowhead just about anywhere but if you get on a spot where they were living you’ll find lots of artifacts and every time after a rain it’s like a brand new spot again. I imagine the lower ground around these high spots may have been swamps back then and they needed water every day like us now but didn’t want to be too far away from it but far enough not to have it bother them when rising. Doesn’t have to be very high either. I have a small spot that is just slightly higher then all the ground around it but it sticks out cause of the difference in the color of the dirt so I check it out after a rain each time and sometimes I find one there. It has only produced about 6 points but it is very small and doesn’t take very long to look it over. They don’t work this field most years other then maybe strip tilling or something similar to that but you can still find them.

There’s a few but the ones I have heard of the most is the Sauk and Kickapoo

I pick up the flakes and chips I find and fill coffee cans up lol. Most times they are well hidden like this one

Yes I like that I wonder how many arrow heads the native Americans made in a lifetime

The best knappers likely made tens of thousands of arrowheads over their lifetimes. Some archeologists have been able to.attribute hundreds of arrowheads to specific individual, due to the techniques and designs used. They have also been able to tell that one person likely learned from a specific other person.

Keith