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- Some Real Estate Internet Sites have Satellite views of Farms and Empty Real Estate for sale. Browse...
- DeLorme makes decent Map Atlases for roads. Buy one for your State. Browse it as if it is the Rosetta Stone for Indian Sites.
- When you find an area that you discovered some percussion or pressure flakes... get a USGS Quadrangle or larger for that area.
- If you want to FIND Indian Sites... you first have to Think Indian. Not as a 21st Century Homo Sapien with a Cell Phone. Go snake eye...
- Understand that rocks are rocks and Silicates are Flint, Agate, Chert, Obsidian and other usable materials.
- No, Indian Head Cents and Buffalo Nickels indicate a Site... but maybe an Old Cabin that was there at one time.
When looking for a site... someone who has spent years finding some to walk will most likely shrug their shoulders. Pirates never talk when they bury the 'goods' either. Often those that did the digging end up IN the pit. They could not return or tell anyone. Neither do Artifact Collectors.
Imagine the topography you see today. OK? Hmmmm. Then go back 1000 years, 2500 years... 9,000 years... the terrain would have been different. The overlooking hillside may have eroded back 100 feet and the site washed down the side of the hill. Start on the side of a site, downhill and work your way UP. I could give you some examples, but... they would all be lies and tall tales.
Farmers use to plow deep, turning over lots of top soil in the Fall. Use to. Now, for soil conservation, they barely scratch the surface. That changed everything. Plowed fields also broke a lot of stone tools, gouged ground axes and took the tops off of large storage pottery. Today... a field in the Family for 100 years... has provided lots of broken points, tools and pottery.
A massive Flooding Incident in 'Indian Site Country' is a wish come true... after it dries out some. Dirt washes further away than solid items and flat chipped tools. Flooding is BAD for modern Human Beans, but for an artifact collector... opportunity.
You develop an 'eye' at a glance for possible sites to check. Some have no eye to find loose change at a supermarket parking lot. They could not find a junk tire thrown off the side of the road. If you fall in that category, take a friend with you who can SEE shapes in their mind to... check out. A small tip of a point to someone with imagination... finds all of the good stuff. A Ground Axe may look like a small boulder in a field... but fine grained granite is not found where a Glacier may have dumped tons of good material for Axe grinding. Think. Think. And get with it.
When you can think like a Native American migrating from one area where the timber has been taken down, they stash the 'goods' that are too bulky, to come back later. Celts in Missouri fall into that category. With polished 'digging ends' showing they were used for a long time and stashed.
There is no Archaeology Professor who is going to give you a list of places to dig, hunt or pick up artifacts. They are happy to tell you what you may have found, but will never tell you where to find anything... but a library. There hide all of the secrets... your local University Library. Yep...
When you find flakes... you are on track. You go from that spot and go in larger circles to find the center of a camp site. You may be on the Center, or at a far edge. Indians did not stay anywhere for 40 years... unless Southwest Pueblos... but they get upset with people digging around...
Fossil Hunting is no different. They are easy to find when you understand Trilobites are as old as 500,000,000 years ago, and you are looking in a Limestone that is 2,000.000 years old and Trilobites have been Extinct Since the end of the Permian.
Learning by Trial and Error is hard. But... once you figure an area out, you will sit back, look at a nice point and go Ahhhhhhh. Success!
- DeLorme makes decent Map Atlases for roads. Buy one for your State. Browse it as if it is the Rosetta Stone for Indian Sites.
- When you find an area that you discovered some percussion or pressure flakes... get a USGS Quadrangle or larger for that area.
- If you want to FIND Indian Sites... you first have to Think Indian. Not as a 21st Century Homo Sapien with a Cell Phone. Go snake eye...
- Understand that rocks are rocks and Silicates are Flint, Agate, Chert, Obsidian and other usable materials.
- No, Indian Head Cents and Buffalo Nickels indicate a Site... but maybe an Old Cabin that was there at one time.
When looking for a site... someone who has spent years finding some to walk will most likely shrug their shoulders. Pirates never talk when they bury the 'goods' either. Often those that did the digging end up IN the pit. They could not return or tell anyone. Neither do Artifact Collectors.
Imagine the topography you see today. OK? Hmmmm. Then go back 1000 years, 2500 years... 9,000 years... the terrain would have been different. The overlooking hillside may have eroded back 100 feet and the site washed down the side of the hill. Start on the side of a site, downhill and work your way UP. I could give you some examples, but... they would all be lies and tall tales.
Farmers use to plow deep, turning over lots of top soil in the Fall. Use to. Now, for soil conservation, they barely scratch the surface. That changed everything. Plowed fields also broke a lot of stone tools, gouged ground axes and took the tops off of large storage pottery. Today... a field in the Family for 100 years... has provided lots of broken points, tools and pottery.
A massive Flooding Incident in 'Indian Site Country' is a wish come true... after it dries out some. Dirt washes further away than solid items and flat chipped tools. Flooding is BAD for modern Human Beans, but for an artifact collector... opportunity.
You develop an 'eye' at a glance for possible sites to check. Some have no eye to find loose change at a supermarket parking lot. They could not find a junk tire thrown off the side of the road. If you fall in that category, take a friend with you who can SEE shapes in their mind to... check out. A small tip of a point to someone with imagination... finds all of the good stuff. A Ground Axe may look like a small boulder in a field... but fine grained granite is not found where a Glacier may have dumped tons of good material for Axe grinding. Think. Think. And get with it.
When you can think like a Native American migrating from one area where the timber has been taken down, they stash the 'goods' that are too bulky, to come back later. Celts in Missouri fall into that category. With polished 'digging ends' showing they were used for a long time and stashed.
There is no Archaeology Professor who is going to give you a list of places to dig, hunt or pick up artifacts. They are happy to tell you what you may have found, but will never tell you where to find anything... but a library. There hide all of the secrets... your local University Library. Yep...
When you find flakes... you are on track. You go from that spot and go in larger circles to find the center of a camp site. You may be on the Center, or at a far edge. Indians did not stay anywhere for 40 years... unless Southwest Pueblos... but they get upset with people digging around...
Fossil Hunting is no different. They are easy to find when you understand Trilobites are as old as 500,000,000 years ago, and you are looking in a Limestone that is 2,000.000 years old and Trilobites have been Extinct Since the end of the Permian.
Learning by Trial and Error is hard. But... once you figure an area out, you will sit back, look at a nice point and go Ahhhhhhh. Success!
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