I started looking for artifacts about this time last year and, after at LEAST forty hours wandering fields, rivers, cliffs, etc., I have found only one broken spear(?) point and a possible core fragment.
Specifically, I am in southeast Wisconsin. Not Milwaukee county.
At this point I feel like I am having incredibly bad luck or I am doing something wrong so I'd like to ask for some advice. My general approach is to find a crop field by a river and then walk along the rows turning over anything that looks thin, flaked, an unusual color, etc. Not too much luck. So I am curious as to what other fellow wisconsinites approaches to looking are. Perhaps I am missing something obvious.
The rivers around me are quite brown but I've read nearly every advice post on the forum so far and the general consensus is to find gravel bars and eye them over carefully. Don't know if there's anything more to add with rivers but I'm open to anything.
Lastly there are a lot of mentions of digging. You guys just find a nice overlook or cliff and throw in your shovel? Seems worse than needle in a haystack but I'm the one with two pieces so there's definitely something i'm missing there
If there's anything Wisconsin specific I'd love to read it. I've been researching local history, asking local farmers/historical groups, poring over google maps and walking miles of rivers to no avail. Not quite discouraged yet but I'm getting there haha.
Specifically, I am in southeast Wisconsin. Not Milwaukee county.
At this point I feel like I am having incredibly bad luck or I am doing something wrong so I'd like to ask for some advice. My general approach is to find a crop field by a river and then walk along the rows turning over anything that looks thin, flaked, an unusual color, etc. Not too much luck. So I am curious as to what other fellow wisconsinites approaches to looking are. Perhaps I am missing something obvious.
The rivers around me are quite brown but I've read nearly every advice post on the forum so far and the general consensus is to find gravel bars and eye them over carefully. Don't know if there's anything more to add with rivers but I'm open to anything.
Lastly there are a lot of mentions of digging. You guys just find a nice overlook or cliff and throw in your shovel? Seems worse than needle in a haystack but I'm the one with two pieces so there's definitely something i'm missing there
If there's anything Wisconsin specific I'd love to read it. I've been researching local history, asking local farmers/historical groups, poring over google maps and walking miles of rivers to no avail. Not quite discouraged yet but I'm getting there haha.
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