Material question

[Six S]

Rained about 3 inches here, so couldn’t do much farming, better for artifact hunting. Walked about a 1/2 mile of prairie road and found some knife river flint flakes which(thanks to this forum) now jump out at me and some other interesting rocks but no artifacts. I have a pretty good handle on the KRF and that I need to really pay attention when I start seeing them but are these other rocks something that works well for stone tools and I should look for these materials or leave in the field? Is this good enough sign to work this area? And yes, I whacked the grey rock on the left with the first rock I could find just to see if it would break.

 

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[arrow86]

I’d say yes , pretty much everything below the quarter looks like flakes and possibly a broken triangle point, atleast a few of them looked worked

 

[Tdog]

I say go for it right there! Very promising sign.

 

[smokeythecat]

Yes, you're close to hopefully some good stuff.

 

[smallfoot]

If you have any water near by the location of these flakes, I'd go there...

 

[Huzzah!]

Yeah there seems that there could be a broken point in there. Go back!

 

[Six S]

Thanks for the opinions, definitely will go back. Question on going toward water...are we talking running water or standing water? I live in what is known as the prairie pothole region so sloughs everywhere but the waterways only occasionally have running water. Are we heading toward the water to try to find complete points that were lost shooting at game rather than all the flakes at the campsite? The ridge I have been hunting is a few miles from a river.

 

[Tdog]

Running water is best, standing water better than no water at all. You have to read the landscape. No one lived in the flood plain at the time they were there. When you find a smoker, give us the GPS coordinates!

 

[Six S]

Thanks, I will. While I’m at it maybe post my SSN and Apple ID too.[emoji2]

 

[Jon Stewart]

You need to try and figure out where the water line was 200 to 400 years ago and look there.