Great artifact find!

[BilletHead]

1 hour ago, MOFishwater said:

anyone able to provide any info on this one? Found in a creek in JeffCo by a friend. Assuming a bird or fish point of some sort? Many thanks in advance. 

 

Pic of the find

 

 

                The point in question is a Scallorn .  Dates range from 1300 to 600 A.D.

   Ok to @fishinwrench question. The term "bird point" Is not correct. This point was used to shoot at anything. Even large game. The native Americans did not shoot high weight bows. They needed a point that would penetrate.  There have been points found at buffalo (Bison) jumps where they were driven off of cliffs. They would go down and dispatch the bison with small points that would penetrate the tough hides. That or I am sure if they could get close enough to the wounded beasts shove a lanceolate shaped point to finish it off. 

    Now we get to another term "arrowheads". Please stop classifying all points as arrowheads. Let me help you here. One thing chipped stone artifact have in common is a point.  Some points that are sharpened round had a point at one time. These were utilized as a scraper and not a BLUNT point. 

[BilletHead]

1 hour ago, fishinwrench said:

 

I always suspected that those itty-bitty 5 pointers were made by modern crackheads, as jewelry or something. 

     Nope

[BilletHead]

1 hour ago, MOFishwater said:

anyone able to provide any info on this one? Found in a creek in JeffCo by a friend. Assuming a bird or fish point of some sort? Many thanks in advance. 

 

Pic of the find

 

 

         Thanks for sharing this. A great example of the Scallorn point.

[Daryk Campbell Sr]

Eh, arrowhead,  bream, it's all the same.

[fishinwrench]

42 minutes ago, BilletHead said:

     Nope

Really?   Cuz I've seen some that were smaller than a dime.   And would have had no stabilization weight to them at all.  Anyone that knows anything about archery knows that the point needs to have enough weight in comparison to the shaft.....so that the projectile will fly straight.    

You ever shot a bare shaft?   That sucker can boomerang and hit you square in the noggin.  😅

[Terrierman]

2 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

Really?   Cuz I've seen some that were smaller than a dime.   And would have had no stabilization weight to them at all.  Anyone that knows anything about archery knows that the point needs to have enough weight in comparison to the shaft.....so that the projectile will fly straight.    

You ever shot a bare shaft?   That sucker can boomerang and hit you square in the noggin.  😅

He's made and shot everything there is to shoot with a bow.  Bet you fifty cents, cash on the barrelhead.

[BilletHead]

3 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

Really?   Cuz I've seen some that were smaller than a dime.   And would have had no stabilization weight to them at all.  Anyone that knows anything about archery knows that the point needs to have enough weight in comparison to the shaft.....so that the projectile will fly straight.    

You ever shot a bare shaft?   That sucker can boomerang and hit you square in the noggin.  😅

   You have been out of the archery game way too long. Now the bow is tuned with a bare arsed nekkid shaft. Another thing those people from many moons ago did not shoot long shots. They were hunters. When I shot self bows and stone points I was a very good hunter. Close Is the name of the game.

  @Terrierman thanks.

[fishinwrench]

1 minute ago, BilletHead said:

You have been out of the archery game way too long.

Me?  What about THEM ?   😂 

I used to shoot bare shafts through paper to set my rest.....But that was with perfectly straight shafts and aligned nocks.     Try that crap with a cedar limb.....and you're just asking for it.  😳

[MOFishwater]

57 minutes ago, BilletHead said:

         Thanks for sharing this. A great example of the Scallorn point.

Appreciate the info on the utility rock.

[fishinwrench]

3 minutes ago, MOFishwater said:

utility rock.

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