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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[Indian Steve]

58 years since my first find.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

2961 and counting...

 

[Relicgrubber]

Been at for 52 years...

55 years and still at it...

 

[vonfatman]

Found my first in 1978. Been "at it" for 33 years.

vfm

 

[CreekSide]

Found my first in 1978. Been "at it for 33 years.

vfm

Let’s see some of your finds in the forum. We all like seeing artifacts past or present.

 

[Al D]

I began collecting and researching in 1972, most of what I was finding then belonged to Anasazi and what was then known as Hohokam cultures.
did not collect while in the military.
total yeas 43

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Please post artifacts on other threads on artifact forum, this thread is strictly for tracking the members experience.

 

[vonfatman]

My apologies - the photo has been removed.

vfm

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

My apologies - the photo has been removed.

vfm

No apologies needed, I moved your post to new thread titled "Double Sided Axe". Add your picture back to it there.

 

[Mastodon]

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.

Starting in 1972 as a surveyor digging in bottle dumps on my lunch hr.
Then in 1978 as a Project Engineer installing bridge approaches through the Naticoke River marshes watching the grade all uncover 100s of points .
Boy wish I had that to do again.
Now living on the ancestral Susquehanna River finding great Natural rocks. Lol

 

[scruggs]

I have been hunting Native American artifacts for going on 17 years. I went on my first hunt when I was 18 which is also the day I found my first projectile point. My mentor took me to several really large bluffs on the Cumberland Plateau in Middle Tennessee. Now I primarily hunt my home county of Anderson.

I lived in Oak Ridge for 20 years and hunted all over Anderson, Knox, Scott, White, Middle Tn, North Carolina and now in the Huntsville Alabama area. I found a lot of artifacts when they were building the Oak Ridge Marina! Good luck in your hunting!

 

[LandSeig]

I found my first point as a child probably 25 yrs ago, I was crawling around under our house and found one with a broken tip. I’m always finding random things wherever I go.

 

[Rockdog]

Been at it since I was kid. Late 1960s hunting farm fields and creeks. 55 years or so. It never gets old.

 

[Mortenson]

I found a paddle drill in my grandparents sweetcorn patch in the 80s as a little kid. But I don't really count my years of hunting as starting til much more recently, in 2017.

7 Years of experience. My 12 year old has the same 7 years, and he knows way more than I do.

 

[Rememberingyou]

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.

I was around 8 years old, 1976. I taught my husband what I knew and he got better than me. Lol!! It's his favorite thing to do. 48 years.

 

[DeepSouthArtifacts]

My whole life I grew up around my dad who hunted fairly often. I never got into it much until around 2017 or so. I moved to Florida in 2019 and have been DEEP off in the hobby ever since. Attending and displaying at shows all across the Deep South. So I’ll say a solid 5 years from me. 5 solid years of strenuous and intense studying & research. 😁

 

[Kathleen_Isabella]

Caribbean Artifacts (first conch shell chisel found in Barbados in 1964, so maybe South, not North American) - 60 years
USA Mound Exploration - 10 years
Other USA Indian Sites - 8 years

 

[routefood]

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.

Found my first point 6 weeks ago on a gravel bar in SE PA. I'm 71 and wished I started when I was a younger man. I just received my mini leaf blower from Amazon to clear the leaves from local gravel bars.

 

[russau]

I've always like looking for points since I was a little kid. Now I am 78 and been knapping for sometime I still have a problem knapping points that are thin and similar on both sides .I can Knap the shape just fine but getting each side thin and similar is hard to go with my old health problems. I'd really enjoy learning more about this. Can someone direct me to a knapping class or book or just fell sorry for this ole man ! I have a 1/4 of a Mason jar of points that I knapped out but didn't get them thin like Todds Point display of beautiful points that he posted . I'd LOVE to knap like that ! what else is a old guy to do with his time THANKS for any advice ! I've been at it for 40 years and still Tring to get it right ! Hey old guy's take longer Disabled vet U.S. Army 10/67----8/ 70 RVN & Germany and proud of it !