My area here in the foothills of the Ouachita Mountains is not a artifact rich area like Texas are the Midwest. You really have to work for what you find. No much agriculture here other than timber harvest so alot of your sites are usually in logging roads or freshly ripped clear-cuts.most of these sites seem to be seasonal hunting camps that are small in area. Usually up on a high spot above the small creeks and branches.The majority of my hunts are a bust with only a few flakes to show for your efforts.

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That's a nice collection Cattrapper. Your area sounds a lot like mine. And like you, most of my hunts are a bust.

Real nice set up and collection. How many years do you think you have rapped up looking for those arrow heads ?

30 plus years finding those, but I don't hunt them as often now.

That’s a great collection!

Very nice.

What's the legality of finding prehistoric artifacts? Must be different for private vs. public land.
If someone in Alaska had a collection like that the feds would swoop in and confiscate it!!

I would be amazing to know what all was hunted with those relics. I'm sure enemies would be on the list. Often wonder if mammoths or such were?

That's a nice collection, them are some awesome points in the second from the bottom box,

Very cool!!

Second frame up , them are eye catchers to me.

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Yeah that's my old frame mostly Daltons and a few San Patrice points. A couple broke Scott'sbluff points upper right.

Those daltons are eye candy!!!
Daltons and Hardin points are my favorites.

State laws vary,, but ANY public land in any state off limits. All artifacts on private land. Some states its illegal to dig for them,, even on private property and no known mounds present… other states you can’t even collect from waterways.

A couple things strike me when I look at that assemblage. First, how similar a collection could look to that anywhere east of the Rockies in terms of types of blades.
Second, there is an surprising and unusual percentage and prevalence of paleo and transitional early archaic forms.

Did you find those Dalton / HiLo / fluted points all in one area which would indicate a fairly rare find of so many at one site or even square mile or more, or were they more scattered, like from a township or county or several counties?
In any case, wow that is a bunch of paleo stuff given the associated relatively low number of total artifacts. That is to say, many places you would have two or three of those in a collection with a hundred or even 2 or 3 hundred blades. You have one the highest raw count of paleo blades I have ever seen in a private collection. And if you personally found all those, you may have found more than anyone I know!

Loosanarrow those paleos all came from with 15 or 20 miles of where I live. Daltons are fairly common in eastern Oklahoma these sites here in the foothills are rather shallow in statigraphy. And rarely have a Woodland or Mississippi component. My dad told me that they found alot of what he called Bull horn points when he was a kid and I assume he was referring to dalton points with their articulated concave bases.

Interesting. Thanks so much for that reply and information.

Soil profiles tell a lot of what the vegetation changes have been in a area and the biomass that it supported. Vast changes occurred in the 3500-4000 bp time period.
Reflected in the projectile changes