Hello all. I’m in rural NE Nevada. I’m interested in both artifacts and fossils, although I’ve not found much of either. I’ve come upon a total of two arrowheads, neither of which was whole. The interesting thing is that I had a “feeling” before coming upon either one. I found the first one while out purposefully looking for some with my daughter. I felt we should look in a specific area as we drove past some large rocks, and it was laying on the trail as we were walking to the spot. The second one I came across as I was hunting mule deer on the side of a mountain. I was walking along a game trail and thought, wouldn’t it be neat if I looked down and saw an arrowhead. Of course I looked down and there it was, literally at my feet. That was such a thrill to think I was hunting the exact spot someone else had hunted who knows how long ago. It really intrigues me because from the pictures I’ve looked at, it almost has a Clovis style. Are there any Clovis points from Nevada?
When I was a teenager I was up about 8000’ in some mountains outside of Las Vegas and found a whole trilobite that I now understand may have been nearly museum quality. Of course it went in a drawer and was lost over the years. Now all I find are the rare broken trilobites, shells and small plant fossils. It is still a gas though.
I also like petroglyphs and rock art. My avatar is a Fremont pictograph that is up a canyon on the Nevada-Utah border. It is some 700-1000 years old, and is on a rock overhang along with many other figures, on the side of a seasonal creek bed. That was a real treat to see.
Alan
When I was a teenager I was up about 8000’ in some mountains outside of Las Vegas and found a whole trilobite that I now understand may have been nearly museum quality. Of course it went in a drawer and was lost over the years. Now all I find are the rare broken trilobites, shells and small plant fossils. It is still a gas though.
I also like petroglyphs and rock art. My avatar is a Fremont pictograph that is up a canyon on the Nevada-Utah border. It is some 700-1000 years old, and is on a rock overhang along with many other figures, on the side of a seasonal creek bed. That was a real treat to see.
Alan
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