Here is me at a screen dig outside Bandera with a good blade.

Most people don't realize that most of these points aren't "arrowheads' at all. True arrowheads are very small and were only used in Texas after about 700 AD, when the bow first came into usage. Most of the flint and chert points are thousands of years old and were used with atlatl throwing darts and are larger in size. Many of what people think were "spear" points are actually knives or blades. These were created by unnamed tribes and are considered by era such as paleo, early archaic, archaic, woodlands, prehistoric, etc. The Comanches for example didn't appear on the Texas plains until about 1760 and were using metal so called "trade points" manufactured from barrel hoops, scrap metal from wagons, or made by Europeans. So flint points are more associated with a time or era than a specific tribe.

I myself have points 2 to 10 thousand years old that were found within feet of true Steiner arrowheads which are between 400 and 1300 years old. All on my campsite that was used for thousands of years in the piney woods.

Not ceremonial, just another tool .

Thanks so much for the tutorial, Ringtail! How do you date your points: from 2 to 10 thousand years old? Is there a "signature" revealed by the knapping technique on each piece?

For decades Clovis were thought to be the oldest peoples and points found in the US but now at the Gault Site in Bell County TX, archeologists believe they have found tools and points made by people up to 15000 years ago. They have also found older artifacts at other sites fairly recently. Funny thing is that some of the Clovis, First View, Folsum, Midland and other paleo points were better, more skillfully- made then some of the later points over the next several thousands of years like some skill was lost as the larger game became extinct. Later the craftsmanship picked up again. The Clovis peoples and their technology lasted only about 350 to 400 years for some reason.

I found a corner tang once. I was somewhere near Fort Chadbourne sitting under a balanced boulder at the peak of a round mountain watching for turkeys. We called it nipple peak. The corner tang I found laying behind me up under the boulder. I did not want to break or lose it so I carefully folded it into a paper towel, placed it in my breast pocket, and buttoned it closed. Soon I saw a nice tom but it would not respond to my calls. I saw it was headed to a stock tank, so I ran a wide circle and set up on the edge of the stock tank. Soon I shot my turkey. I even remember patting my pocket to make sure my corner tang was still there, even though there was no way it could fall out. Arriving at camp with my turkey I wanted a picture of the Turkey and corner tang together. I removed the paper towl from my pocket, carefully unfolded it, and nothing was there. Being an arrowhead collector and hunting them every chance I get, you can understand how devastated I was missing the only corner tang I had ever found. Corner tangs perhaps being ceremonial pieces must be bad medicine. There is no way I could have lost it.

From a friend in Young County who has spent the last 50 years so searching & collecting.