Hello to the group! My name is Susan, and my family and I live on the Central West Coast of Florida. We have just inherited a massive collection of arrowheads and other artifacts,so I'm joining your forum to try to learn what we have and how to care for them. There are probably over 1,000 items. About half of them are taking up my dining room table at the moment because they were piled in cigar boxes, and I hated seeing that! We know very little, but feel responsible for the care of it all. As far as we can tell, most were found in our area, some are marked, others look like fossils, and the rest are a mystery! So thank you for your help in advance, we look forward to learning a lot from you!
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Thank you! Here are a few photos of our current situation, lol. Any suggestions for storage as we go through them? I don't want to put them back in the cigar boxes. I've already found resources on sorting them by shape, but if there are any links to help in handling this chaos, they'd certainly be appreciated!3 PhotosCentral West Coast of Florida, total noob!
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welcome to arrowheads.com forum pages.TN formerly CT Visit our store http://stores.arrowheads.com/store.p...m-Trading-Post
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I also see an Adena. Really nice lithics too. I like that one corner notch point, and the Bifuricated base point."The education of a man is never completed until he dies." Robert E. Lee
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I don't know what those are, lol, but I'll look them up! we've got a local artifact show coming up, so hopefully we'll learn a lot there. I'm sure I'll be doing a lot of research this week, taking photos and sorting. Lots of broken ones, and pieces too, so who knows what we'll end up with. Thanks for the input, it'll help get me started!
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Sorry about the lingo! I forgot that you are a newbie. It will all become clear soon!
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Shell Adze probably Queen Conch. (So. FL) You need a FL ID book. Overstreets is great but a local, simple good one is Bullens Florida Projectile Points. All your points look familiar LOL
This page is meant to provide typical jargon used in identifying, defining, and describing projectile points. It is based on information collated from multiple glossaries for general understanding …
Professor Shellman
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Overstreet's has actual pictures from collectors which is really great. Not gonna see that anywhere else except in collector's caseboxes. I have seen on many point ID books that they are not specific (enough) for Central and South Florida and some are confused IMHOP with some regional types by putting names on them from outside the region. An example of what I mean is that a Mississippian Triangle true arrowhead from your area is a Pinellas Point, not one of the dozens of names of similar, often SAME points from all over the US and the World.Professor Shellman
Tampa Bay
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