Years Of Experience Collecting Native American Artifacts

[Treasure_Hunter]

Thread is for information only, trying to get total years experience of forum.

How many years experience collecting Native American artifacts do you have?

I will start off, I started collecting in 1981 when I found my first point in a corn field.

Please end post with total years.


39 years.

 

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[oldmxrat]

My grandparents got me hooked at 8 years old, so 53 years.

 

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[Tdog]

2387
+ 53
----
2440*

 

[Original_Chalice]

1996(when I was 5) I found a small quartz point while weeding the family garden, I have been hunting since!

25 years

 

[Tdog]

2440
+ 25
----
2465*

 

[WannaDig3687]

64 years for me hunting all over Tennessee and North Carolina, surface hunting and digging under overhangs. Good luck to all!

Total now stands at 2243!

My Dad took me fishing in 1955 when I was 8 years old then he showed me a plowed field and taught me about arrowheads. I was hooked! 66 years.

2321
+ 66
-----

2387 now!

Ummmmm, I think we have an error here.

 

[dougachim]

62 years

 

[WannaDig3687]

We bought the farm in 2005 and found a point right away, laying right on the surface of the ground, just off the dirt driveway. It was meant to be found, I guess. It wasn’t until I joined TNet in 2017 that I focused a little harder on it. So to be fair I will say just 4 years.

 

[Tdog]

2465 + 62 + 4 =

2531 *

 

[Tdog]

Ummmmm, I think we have an error here.

I don't see it. Feel free to jump in and correct it.

 

[Salmonriver]

40 years and love walking around looking!

 

[WannaDig3687]

I don't see it. Feel free to jump in and correct it.

Maybe I am misreading, but it appears Scruggs posted twice and you added both times.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Scruggs did post twice, once on June 1st again on September 21st


We are now at 2507 after removing one of scruggs.


Total years........... 2507

 

[Tdog]

OK thanks. Sorry I missed that. Does 2507 include Salmonriver's 40 years in post #110?

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

OK thanks. Sorry I missed that. Does 2507 include Salmonriver's 40 years in post #110?

No problem sir. Yes, it includes Salmonrivers 40 years too.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Total years experience to date.

Total years........... 2507

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Posts deleted, thread is for tracking years of experience.

 

[Tnmountains]

At 2507 we are in the woodland period and closely approaching the Archaic period!

 

[tamrock]

Maybe 1966-67 after my Mom who was the Cub Scouts den mother arranged a hunt with an expert collector in Illinois. The expert took us out and walked behind us talking out as we searched. He then would holler out for us to all halt and turn around and come back to him. From where he was standing he'd point down at an arrowhead all of us Cub Scouts walked over not seeing. I think that's when I became most intrigued to take up artifact hunting.

 

[Tdog]

Im' giving you 55 years so that plus 2507 is... uhh... What does that equal? Oh yeah...

2562 years!

 

[DemonCatSpaceStar]

I've been at it since '07 so 15 years!

I had been going to Rivers and creeks with my Dad ( he was more interested in fishing lol) in the 70s & I had never found an artifact ( I thought they were found somewhere else so I guess I wasn't looking).

In 2007 I was working as an AutoCAD tech on a project & going through some records & noticed some documents of Arrowheads found, and again I thought "History" was some place far away, but since then Ive found a lot in the history of the First Peoples that were right in the area that I live, AND it's major history that I feel was never taught to me in school!

On a side note I noticed you were USAF, my Dad was in WWII a U.S. Army Air Force crew chief Airplane Maintenance Technician with the 523rd Fighter Squadron. He was awarded eight bronze stars with four oak leaf clusters and, after landing in North Africa, served in the Sicilian, Naples-Foggia, Rome-Arno, northern Apennines, central Europe, Southern France, Rhineland and Northern France campaigns of the European Theatre. He was discharged as a Staff Sergeant in October 1945.