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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: High-Desert on April 04, 2019, 06:25:55 pm

Title: Arrowhead information
Post by: High-Desert on April 04, 2019, 06:25:55 pm

A friend of mine gave me 5 placks with several hundred arrowheads his grandparents found on there property in Central Oregon. I removed them from the frame place in new frames I’m going to build and I have been trying to get as much information as I can about them. I had a friend of mine take a look at them as he’s an avid knapper and is one of the local NW Ishi experts. He could not identify this artifact and he said it looked out of place for Central Oregon. Can anyone here maybe give an origin to this piece, or any information.  I am very curious.

Title: Re: Arrowhead information
Post by: Outbackbob48 on April 04, 2019, 06:42:22 pm

I have found a few of that exact style in NW Pa. Bob

Title: Re: Arrowhead information
Post by: Hawkdancer on April 04, 2019, 11:37:23 pm

It is possible that was a late trade between collectors, or a supply chain item that just kept moving?  I don't know enough to comment further than that!  Nice point!
Hawkdancer

Title: Re: Arrowhead information
Post by: YosemiteBen on April 05, 2019, 08:09:33 am

looks like petrified wood.

Title: Re: Arrowhead information
Post by: High-Desert on April 05, 2019, 09:37:23 am

Up close it looks like chert, something we don’t have around here in any great quantity, if any at all. I was told it look like something from the Midwest or east, but that all he knew.

Title: Re: Arrowhead information
Post by: Outbackbob48 on April 05, 2019, 05:47:06 pm

Snyder's Point, 2500-1500 B.P.  Late Archaic to Woodland, Hopewell Culture. Mid west to mid Atlantic. Just my .02 worth Bob

Title: Re: Arrowhead information
Post by: High-Desert on April 05, 2019, 06:11:42 pm

Thanks bob! That looks to match very close.

Title: Re: Arrowhead information
Post by: Pat B on April 05, 2019, 07:11:49 pm

Bob, I think your $.02 is worth a lot more than $.02 from that description.   :OK

Title: Re: Arrowhead information
Post by: TimBo on April 08, 2019, 08:39:31 am

No kidding...that's a lot of info for two cents!

Title: Re: Arrowhead information
Post by: High-Desert on April 08, 2019, 10:23:23 am

And he didn’t even send me the bill!