stryker-one
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The picture below is a picture of the first projectile point I ever found. It is the point in the center of the photo. The point is glued to one of my collection displays and I did not remove it from the display. It measures: 1.5 inches long and .75 inches wide. The tip has damage and I have found many better looking points since--I still enjoy looking at it. It is one of the reasons I learned how to Knapp.
I found this projectile point in 1985 in Arizona. At that time I lived in AZ and spent a good deal of my time out and about. I was walking along out in the flats below a ridge. I was talking with my friend and I remember telling him about my Archeology class and how we were studying historic and prehistoric artifacts. I had just finished telling him that I had no idea where prehistoric artifacts might be found, but, that this area was supposed to be a great area for finding such items, yet I had never found one. True story..
It was not enough that I should find just a corner of the projectile point sticking out of the ground--no. This point had lain out in the desert heat and sun so long that it was suspended upon a tee of sand much like you would place your golf ball on a green tee--just not as tall. The projectile point was about 1 inch above the surrounding sand and had--to the best of mine and John Kubrock's deduction--received raindrops enough through the centuries to have had the sand upon which it laid washed out from under it. Literally raising it above the sand. I wish I had of had a camera. When I lifted it up the small sand pedestal came with it--it was truly cemented to the sand.
Of course I took it to class and my professor (a LT Colonel in the Air Force) told me it was very old and was more than likely an atalatal point. This was before internet and researching was a bit difficult to say the least. Amazing how times change--another true story.
Since that day I have found a good collection worth and I can recall each incident clearly.
Here it is.
I found this projectile point in 1985 in Arizona. At that time I lived in AZ and spent a good deal of my time out and about. I was walking along out in the flats below a ridge. I was talking with my friend and I remember telling him about my Archeology class and how we were studying historic and prehistoric artifacts. I had just finished telling him that I had no idea where prehistoric artifacts might be found, but, that this area was supposed to be a great area for finding such items, yet I had never found one. True story..
It was not enough that I should find just a corner of the projectile point sticking out of the ground--no. This point had lain out in the desert heat and sun so long that it was suspended upon a tee of sand much like you would place your golf ball on a green tee--just not as tall. The projectile point was about 1 inch above the surrounding sand and had--to the best of mine and John Kubrock's deduction--received raindrops enough through the centuries to have had the sand upon which it laid washed out from under it. Literally raising it above the sand. I wish I had of had a camera. When I lifted it up the small sand pedestal came with it--it was truly cemented to the sand.
Of course I took it to class and my professor (a LT Colonel in the Air Force) told me it was very old and was more than likely an atalatal point. This was before internet and researching was a bit difficult to say the least. Amazing how times change--another true story.
Since that day I have found a good collection worth and I can recall each incident clearly.
Here it is.
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