Re: Arrowheads

Posted by warbaby on April 10, 2020 at 07:30:31 from (24.180.81.247):

In Reply to: Arrowheads posted by marcusmerritt on April 09, 2020 at 18:08:22:

We would find them after a good rain, after the fields had been plowed and disced. Usually about a dozen a year, but after a few decades, that added up to alot
of shoe boxes full of artifacts! I still have maybe 2 boxes worth of them that my brothers and I found trailing behind my father as he plowed and we walked
behind picking up worms for fishing. My brother once grabbed one sticking out of a furrow and when he tried to pull it out it sliced his hand pretty good, bad
enough that he probably shoulda gotten stitches. We always said that that particular arrow point was just waiting for him. Most of what we collected were middle
to late Woodland era points, 75% of them broken where the point attached to the arrow shaft.
A friend of my dad had a farm along a part of a river where every spring it regularly flooded into old, dry ox-bow channels that would trap a lot of fish. The
adjacent area was littered with fire-cracked rocks from old campsites and there were artifacts scattered in every field he worked. We would go there every
spring to catch fish and pick up arrow heads, so many we often tossed the badly broken ones!

One time in the early 1970's my dad's buddy was taking sand out of a sand bank on a ridge above the river with his backhoe and when he withdrew the bucket, a
pile of human bones tumbled out! He called the local police, they cam out then they called the Bureau of Indian Affairs, who sent local tribal leaders to
investigate. They determined that it was in fact a burial mound, and identified several others on his property. After the visit he agreed to get his sand
elsewhere and the skeleton ( a female, about 20-30 years old at the time of her death, 500-800 years ago)) was reburied with a ceremony and the mound restored,
which by its size, must hold several more remains. He also gave the tribe (Ottawa/Pottawatomie/ Chippewa) a large collection of stuff he had found and gave them
permission to visit anytime they wanted and hold ceremonies there. They also arraigned to have a few archaeological digs on his property of a couple of the
seasonal camp sites that were originally set up for maple sugaring and for fishing those same flooded channels as we did centuries later.

All of this activity was kept quiet to keep people from overrunning his property, trampling his fields, digging holes- and most important to me at that time-
ruining the fishin'!.

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