Three of my 1600's Copper Arrowhead Detector Finds Featured in a New Book

[Eastender]

I'm in allegany county on the other side of it that meets up with Steuben county alfred/almond/wellsville. So super familiar with these areas.

I grew up in the small town of Cuba, NY. I loved picking those cornfields for arrowheads as a kid. The great Seneca Nation and the older Lamoka culture. I credit those experiences with opening up my mind and developing the visual sense. I would still be doing it if I lived up there. I'm spoiled living in an English settlement area that began in the late 1640's. Western NY really didn't get settled until the early 1800's. I rarely go up that way, but I guess I would try to metal detect the pathways of the Genesee Canal as it fed into the Erie Canal. Which areas do you tend to detect?

 

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[RGINN]

That's fascinating, Eastender. I like to go out to Utah and search out petroglyphs and a few pictographs that people haven't seen. I'll share one with you that my son and I located at Courthouse Rock. It appears to be the same age as the others there. I haven't seen it documented anywhere. For lack of a better name we called it the Bigfoot glyph, haha!

 

[Eastender]

That's fascinating, Eastender. I like to go out to Utah and search out petroglyphs and a few pictographs that people haven't seen. I'll share one with you that my son and I located at Courthouse Rock. It appears to be the same age as the others there. I haven't seen it documented anywhere. For lack of a better name we called it the Bigfoot glyph, haha!View attachment 2187874

Nice one, thanks for sharing. The anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures are the best. In Black Canyon, we were always excited to see depictions of Big Horn Sheep. Especially a group of sheep images following up a craggy edge. Better yet, the cross between the human and Big Horn Sheep, the horned human. Stone lithics and other remnants of material cultures are great enough, but to see everlasting artistic expression and their form of communication is remarkable.

Black Canyon is full of glyphs of geometric shapes. The number one glyph in terms of frequency, by far, was the basic circle divided by a line, like the Greek Phi symbol. Many believe it is a fertility symbol.

 

[dognose]

wow some amazing finds! congratulations on finding such rare items.

I had read that copper pots from that time period were sometime repurposed into points similar to those.

your background experience is great and a indicator of the caliber of individuals on these forums.

 

[Terry Soloman]

These are all located in Central Arizona, the Weaver Mountains. You find them all over Arizona. Just cool!