Are we getting closer????

[picnic42]

We hit another farm field in another county... We got permission and was told arrowheads had been found from time to time. So off we went for a nice Sunday stroll thru the farm.
It had a tiny little creek, probably more of a drainage ditch than an actual creek... I searched that and found some promising pieces but no actual pieces... I call them wannabes.
Well Peggy hit the fields that were plowed... and she called out that she is finding some possible pieces.
It wasn't until we got into the unploughed field that we started finding some very razor sharp flakes and some chips or some larger pieces of similar stone as the chips.
So here are the pics... are we getting something finally?

It is a bit puzzling... no real source of water nearby... the tiny ditch may be too small to support other than a few humans if it is indeed a good water supply. A few ponds over hill and dale... but the biggest pond looks man made.
I always thought that if you find flakes or chips.... you just have to be near a place of settlement... where they actually lived and sat and worked on making these tools.
Well enjoy the pics and let me know if we are getting better.
Ralph & Peggy

[joshuaream]

Yes, I'd say you are getting closer... Ask the farmer if/when he's going to plow that field where that came from, and then check it after he plows and then again after the first rain. (But get there as early as possible...)

[Neogeo]

I 2nd it....Yeppers gettin closer....keep followin that flint.......I can't wait to see what ya find...

[The Grim Reaper]

You are definitely finding pieces of flint and where there is flint there is usually artifacts.

Just don't get frustrated and give up. It may take a while before you finally get the hang of what you are looking for and just where to look, but once you do and you start findings things with regularity you will open up a world that few of us get to experience in our lifetime, finding an ancient artifact and being the first human to hold it again in possibly 10,000+ years. It's definitely a rush.

[artorius]

You sure are. Those are man-made reduction flakes, not products of nature. Indians were making artifacts on that field, so there is reason to expect that they left some of those artifacts behind.

Lithic reduction flakes indicate a site that likely will produce artifacts beyond the occasional stray.

artorius

[Tnmountains]

Hot diggity Dog ! You have found it !!!!

Just a matter of time. If you are seeing that they were there !!!
Congratulations and have been enjoying your journey.

[Wallydraigle]

Definitely keep at least mental note of where you find everything. What's interesting is that you not only have flakes, but a variety of different material. Definitely signs of a settlement. There might have been a spring nearby in the past, or possibly it could have been an intermittent settlement that they only used when they were following game around or something. But what you have definitely looks promising.

Something I've noticed at a settlement I've searched, it seems like you'll find a lot of tools in one place, and a lot of flakes a short distance away. Almost like they had a designated area where they made tools which was nearby, but separate from where they actually lived. Which makes sense if you think about it. Flint flakes are razor sharp. You wouldn't leave a bunch of broken glass right outside your front door.

I'd start where you found those flakes, and search in larger and larger circles around that site until you find something else, and I think there's a good chance you will. But even where you know there are tools there, you won't always find something every time. Someone mentioned looking after it rains, and that's good advice. Good luck!