monsterrack
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I'm glad to see new members here and I urge you to become full members of T-net, for it is the best site anywhere to learn about this great hobby of collecting all kinds of artifacts. I am no expert and I have been doing this for a long time and I always learn from the other members on here, because if you can not learn something new then you need to move on to something else. When hunting artifacts there are a lot of different factors come into play, first have permission to hunt on that land, then it depends on what part of the country you are in, field walking, creek walking, screening in a creek or digging. One thing you do not want to do is just think inside the box so to say, you need to think if you lived back in that day and the only place to get food was where the animals were and the only way to get around was by dugout or your feet, where would you set up camp to help stop the cold wind for a certain time of the year or for year round.
First just remember that the NA lived here for way over 10,000 years and we have only been here for over 250 years and look how many places we have settled in. Also remember that the water levels of rivers, streams and creeks have drop more than 20ft in some places since the days of the NA, so that means a dry drain may at one time been a flowing stream. When walking a creek the are the things that I do, look at location, depth of water at regular height and during a hard rain, is it sandy, muddy, clay bottom or a mix. This makes it easier to make calls on where to look in the body of water. I always try to walk up stream so the muddy water flows behind you, look around bends in the creek on the down stream side, on the inside of the bend(if it bends to the left and you are walking in that direction then look on the left side of the down stream flow) heavy objects tend to drop out of the current where it slows down at and that will be a pile of gravel(rock bar) or tree roots, anything that will slow down the flow of water. Don't just look down at your feet, move slowly, look all around you, up the banks, walk over areas more than just once and every now and then just turn around and look where you just walked.
If you are hunting fields location, location, location means a lot, where 2 body's of water join be it 2 creeks , rivers or a stream runs into a lake should be good. If they still disk farm land where you live wait after they have broken ground and it has had at least one heavy rain on it, I like to wait for 3 inch's of rain before I go. I spoke of lakes, lake shores are a great place to look when the water level is down or sometimes just from wave action you can find things. The most important thing is to learn what you are looking for read and study then read some more. I was blessed to have someone to teach me, but if you are on your own don't give up, because artifacts don't just jump in your pockets and you have to put in a lot of walking and looking. You will bring home a lot of just rocks, but that is part of the learning cycle, mother nature can be a very good trickster . For example this was made by clay forming around a tree root both of these were. But to someone that is new to this your mind will run faster than your eyes.
The first photo to the untrained eye would think that it is a pipe and the second one looks like man made alterations to it but they are not artifacts, it's just natural, it's mother nature doing her thing. If you like a rock then pack that bad boy home, I have a place in my yard that is full of cool rocks.
There are a lot of great members on T-net and they know a lot about artifacts and artifact hunting and I hope they will chime in on this thread. If you post a find of some sort and a member says it's just a rock, don't take that as an attack on you, they are just telling it like it is, just include has much info as you have, state, county, in a field, in a creek, what ever you can add will help. Another thing to remember is that most points can only be ID in a time frame, tribes did not have recorded names back in that time period. The main thing is to educate yourself about artifacts, train your eyes for what you are looking for and just have fun and enjoy this great hobby.
First just remember that the NA lived here for way over 10,000 years and we have only been here for over 250 years and look how many places we have settled in. Also remember that the water levels of rivers, streams and creeks have drop more than 20ft in some places since the days of the NA, so that means a dry drain may at one time been a flowing stream. When walking a creek the are the things that I do, look at location, depth of water at regular height and during a hard rain, is it sandy, muddy, clay bottom or a mix. This makes it easier to make calls on where to look in the body of water. I always try to walk up stream so the muddy water flows behind you, look around bends in the creek on the down stream side, on the inside of the bend(if it bends to the left and you are walking in that direction then look on the left side of the down stream flow) heavy objects tend to drop out of the current where it slows down at and that will be a pile of gravel(rock bar) or tree roots, anything that will slow down the flow of water. Don't just look down at your feet, move slowly, look all around you, up the banks, walk over areas more than just once and every now and then just turn around and look where you just walked.
If you are hunting fields location, location, location means a lot, where 2 body's of water join be it 2 creeks , rivers or a stream runs into a lake should be good. If they still disk farm land where you live wait after they have broken ground and it has had at least one heavy rain on it, I like to wait for 3 inch's of rain before I go. I spoke of lakes, lake shores are a great place to look when the water level is down or sometimes just from wave action you can find things. The most important thing is to learn what you are looking for read and study then read some more. I was blessed to have someone to teach me, but if you are on your own don't give up, because artifacts don't just jump in your pockets and you have to put in a lot of walking and looking. You will bring home a lot of just rocks, but that is part of the learning cycle, mother nature can be a very good trickster . For example this was made by clay forming around a tree root both of these were. But to someone that is new to this your mind will run faster than your eyes.
The first photo to the untrained eye would think that it is a pipe and the second one looks like man made alterations to it but they are not artifacts, it's just natural, it's mother nature doing her thing. If you like a rock then pack that bad boy home, I have a place in my yard that is full of cool rocks.There are a lot of great members on T-net and they know a lot about artifacts and artifact hunting and I hope they will chime in on this thread. If you post a find of some sort and a member says it's just a rock, don't take that as an attack on you, they are just telling it like it is, just include has much info as you have, state, county, in a field, in a creek, what ever you can add will help. Another thing to remember is that most points can only be ID in a time frame, tribes did not have recorded names back in that time period. The main thing is to educate yourself about artifacts, train your eyes for what you are looking for and just have fun and enjoy this great hobby.
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