✅ SOLVED Is This a Copper Culture Atlatl Dart Tip?

[Centsless Detecting]

Hey all posting this for my detecting buddy. He found this copper point recently in the woods on top of a bluff over looking Lake Michigan in Wisconsin. I think it's a Atlatl dart point. What do you all think? It sure seems ancient to me.

 

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[jewelerguy]

looks like it to me but I'm certainly no expert

 

[dognose]

it is a point, I cannot say it was an altlat dart point for sure. but it's possible it was.
the csasi.org has columns on copper culture relics.
a very nice find.
congratulations.

 

[Blackfoot58]

Reminds me of a lightning rod tip.
I can’t say for sure though.

 

[Tony in SC]

Hey all posting this for my detecting buddy. He found this copper point recently in the woods on top of a bluff over looking Lake Michigan in Wisconsin. I think it's a Atlatl dart point. What do you all think? It sure seems ancient to me.

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Could be. I think it looks too big for a standard arrow? I also think the term copper culture can be misleading. Good find!

 

[flinthunter]

Sure looks like a Copper Culture point to me. You are surely in the right region.

 

[Centsless Detecting]

Thanks for the replies everyone. Going to mark this as solved. Happy for my friend. So glad he kept it. The possibility that these artifacts are all around me is a good feeling.

 

[Centsless Detecting]

My buddy got in contact with someone at the Milwaukee Public Museum and it has been confirmed an Atlatl Dart Point that is 5000 to 6000 years old.

 

[Georgivs]

Man I gotta go visit you guys where you can find NA artifacts with a detector. I'm stuck using my eyes down here

 

[Centsless Detecting]

Man I gotta go visit you guys where you can find NA artifacts with a detector. I'm stuck using my eyes down here

I actually feel your pain. I have yet to spot a stone artifact with my eyes and it's bugging me. I'd say your odds are still a bit better than ours.