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Well.... I’m going on my third month of floating around the Gulf of Alaska. This past year, my love for artifact hunting grew exponentially. I miss it a lot... not even the knowing that I’ve made enough $ to take the rest of the year off and do nothing but look for pretty rocks makes me feel better right now... a little over a month and I’ll be back in Tennessee🥳...
anyways.... on days like today, when I’m stuck on the boat but it’s too rough to chase king salmon(and i’m not in town, where there are girls to chase😁)I browse the internet reading about arrowheads. Lately I’ve been considering doing something never done, and never thought I’d ever do; buy a point. I’ve never bought one before. Just doesn’t have the same meaning to me. I’m sure I’d feel a lot different if I couldn’t walk into my backyard and find a g-10 4” copena and a 9500 year old , near- perfect 3” pine tree on any given day(or the same day...)
recently i came across this point on Etsy... it’s a ‘barbed Clovis.’ The seller had dozens of perfect points for sale. He claims to have found them while doing grading for construction projects. makes sense, right? He wants like $400 for the 4” Clovis, which seems really cheap to me, there’s also a 5” g-10 Missouri Dalton for sale, less than $200. I try to always give people the ‘benefit of a doubt,’ but I’m especially wary of cheap points for sale the internet. When I looked at all the points he has up for sale, a lot of them sell to be made of the same material; pickwicks, Clovis, suwanee... just seemed strange, especially given the other red flags(ie cheap price, perfect condition....ETSY...)
I Know I’ve answered my own question, but has anyone ever heard of a ‘barbed Clovis?’ Thoughts on this one??
Thanks,
anyways.... on days like today, when I’m stuck on the boat but it’s too rough to chase king salmon(and i’m not in town, where there are girls to chase😁)I browse the internet reading about arrowheads. Lately I’ve been considering doing something never done, and never thought I’d ever do; buy a point. I’ve never bought one before. Just doesn’t have the same meaning to me. I’m sure I’d feel a lot different if I couldn’t walk into my backyard and find a g-10 4” copena and a 9500 year old , near- perfect 3” pine tree on any given day(or the same day...)
recently i came across this point on Etsy... it’s a ‘barbed Clovis.’ The seller had dozens of perfect points for sale. He claims to have found them while doing grading for construction projects. makes sense, right? He wants like $400 for the 4” Clovis, which seems really cheap to me, there’s also a 5” g-10 Missouri Dalton for sale, less than $200. I try to always give people the ‘benefit of a doubt,’ but I’m especially wary of cheap points for sale the internet. When I looked at all the points he has up for sale, a lot of them sell to be made of the same material; pickwicks, Clovis, suwanee... just seemed strange, especially given the other red flags(ie cheap price, perfect condition....ETSY...)
I Know I’ve answered my own question, but has anyone ever heard of a ‘barbed Clovis?’ Thoughts on this one??
Thanks,
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