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hawkbow:
Pat , I should send the arrowheads to you ... I already get into trouble for shooting arrows in the house ;D ;D >:D... Hawk a/ho
DanaM:
Looks like a good point to me Mike.
Wolf Watcher:
Hawk's sketter point is typical of what people here call "bird" points. The truth is they are most often found around buffalo jumps. The Indians used big wood shafted hammer stones to bash in the skulls of the down buffalo. Lots of times the buffalo was too dangerous to get close to so they would use a tiny point that would cut through the thick hair and hide with a long arrow shaft. All the point had to do was go through the lungs. Also in Klamath Lake in Oregon the Indians use floating reed mats and tiny points and hollow reed arrows. The idea was to shoot a diving duck when it surfaced and if you missed the arrow would float. Well, lots of the arrows split and sank a few feet below the surface. The lake is not clear water and for ten thousand years the arrows floated to the down wind coves. No telling how many millions were lost that way. They had lots of obsidian and reeds. The best artifact museum in the country is located there. Watcher
Hillbilly:
Nice point, Mike. Here in western NC we find a lot of little Mississippian-phase points. They're just tiny sharp triangles of chert that would fit on a dime. I assume that they were used to kill deer, bears, and people, since that seems to be about the only point type from that time period, and the mounds from that phase are full of deer and bear bones. The stockaded village sites indicate taht it was a time of war, too. It's a long way from here to a source of good stone for knapping, so it makes sense to maximize number of points per pound of raw material.
Bishop:
that does make a lot of sense.......
Bishop
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