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Back when I was still looking for Pirate Jean Laffite stuff along the 4 bays and hundreds of bayous of Galveston Bay, I realized that the Prehistoric People that lived around here, had first dibs on all the best coastal locations. Under any of the debris or evidence left by the early Texas Settlers, no matter where I looked, was evidence of large and small Indian camps. I was finding pottery sherds, broken and sharpened animal bone, and piles of thick and deep clam shell middens.
If you looked real hard under and amongst the shell, sometimes you would find a few flakes of chert or petrified wood that was used for tool stone. Most of which was smaller than fingernail size pieces. Then one day I found it. My first real arrowhead. I was hooked.
My first one was actually a broken one of carved bone. I lost it thru the years, but I perfected my search and started getting lucky. Along this area of the coast there is no available hard stone for 100 miles either direction. All stone was traded in. Maybe that's why the arrowheads are so small and any large projectile or blade is so rare compared to other parts of the state. I did find one carved shell point and many bone tips and gar scales that were used as possible arrowheads, but the crown jewel is the little gem chert arrowhead. Most of the coastal ones by me are under an inch or so, unlike other areas of the state.
If you looked real hard under and amongst the shell, sometimes you would find a few flakes of chert or petrified wood that was used for tool stone. Most of which was smaller than fingernail size pieces. Then one day I found it. My first real arrowhead. I was hooked.
My first one was actually a broken one of carved bone. I lost it thru the years, but I perfected my search and started getting lucky. Along this area of the coast there is no available hard stone for 100 miles either direction. All stone was traded in. Maybe that's why the arrowheads are so small and any large projectile or blade is so rare compared to other parts of the state. I did find one carved shell point and many bone tips and gar scales that were used as possible arrowheads, but the crown jewel is the little gem chert arrowhead. Most of the coastal ones by me are under an inch or so, unlike other areas of the state.
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