be a job to do a lot of drilling

When hunting is slow i usually get out of stand early just to look for arrowheads. Got an old campsite on my place. Have spent many hour there. Turns into work.

When I'm at our place hunting in East Texas I always look for arrowheads on our small hill on the 34 acres we own. I mostly dig by hand or scrape the topsoil with my tractor bucket. Over the last 2.5 years I have found all these whole points, worked tools, broken points etc. Many very crudely made and were used as blades, atlatl dart points or the smallest as regular arrow points.

What fascinates me is that on this one small hill or rise really, within about 70 to 100 yards from one of the two creeks we have, I have found points dating from a transitional paleo Golondrino base that are between 7000 to 9000 years before present time and a San Patrice point that is 8000 to 10000 years BP in the same place as Gary points, Neches points all around 2000 to 3000 BP, an Early triangular, around 4000 to 6500 BP and real arrowheads, small Steiners and Frileys which can only be from 400 to 1300 years old, since the bow was not used in Texas until about 700 or 800 A.D.

I have found a mano used to grind food and a couple of abrading stones. I have found numerous burnt stones that they used as we would use charcoal. In the smaller wet weather creek as well as on my hill I have found pottery shards and pieces, some with lines or designs. I have also found one broke in my food plot hundreds of yards away, one in the creek and one on the county road in front of my driveway. My neighbor has found dozens after they grade the road or when it has flooded.

For a long time, I wondered why this little hill was so popular for seasonal camps over thousands of years but I may have found the answer. This was just a slightly higher, open spot near a medium size creek but the real key is that there was supposed to have been a spring on the property line area that was noted in a book I heard about that tells where many of the natural springs (hundreds of them) in Texas were since Spanish times. I found the book on Amazon but it has been out of print for decades and the two I saw were listed at 550 dollars and 600 dollars, so I passed on that. A landowner in the 1990's for some reason supposedly blocked up the spring with huge rocks and its source was on another landowner's property so I can't confirm that.

The poor Native Americans in our area of Houston County also had next to nothing to work with and many of the points are made of hard to work petrified wood or low-quality chert or flint. Some was obviously brought in since the most common stone is this iron oxide or rust rock as I call it that was totally unsuitable for points or tools. I guess that is why so many or very crudely made. Remember, these guys had to kill game very often with this stuff to survive. Amazes me. The row of items at the bottom of the photo are some tools and such. A few of these are large chips or chards.

FlintKnapper, the base you pointed out is the one I believe is a golodrina. It is better material and better workmanship and just doesn't fit in with most of the other stuff found in the same 2.5-3 foot deep, 20ft. by 20ft. hole. I'd have given anything to find the rest of that point. I found five or six more this week in about 24 five-gallon buckets of dirt I screened. That Early triangular is also interesting as well as the San Patrice because they are the only representatives from their respective eras.

It just blows my mind that all this stuff is in one relatively small area.

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Found at least last trip.