Who is finding some rocks?

[Duckmanhar]

Igot a few of dem translucent point's they call em agitised coral "SP"
awsome to find. Even foud a pinellis point "bird point" that's see through"
small but impressive.

[duckter]

Wingma and Sorefeet,

Perhaps a typo on the 1970(?) coin?

[Wingman]

Wingma[n] and Sorefeet,

Perhaps a typo on the 1970(?) coin?

I know it is hard to believe, but it is true.

[champcaller]

For the guys that know a lot about it my dad just found a rattle snake bead. It is awesome. He also found some indian teeth and some more beads.

[matador1]

quick question, my father in law farms a place around Morgan City (ms not la) that has an old mound on it. What exactly was the mound for, escaping high water?? I was told by an old know it all that htey were actually like a dumping ground?? What's the real story? Never found anything but haven't spent a lot of time looking either.

[sorefeet]

The mounds in Moundville, Alabama (http://moundville.ua.edu/home.html) were made with the dirt on the site. So much dirt was used that large ponds remain. They may have been the first to farm fish in these ponds. You can see the lake/ponds next to the mounds in these pictures:



Clicky here for a cool video: http://64.84.11.109/arch/moundville_300k.wmv

Some of the larger mounds had buildings on top of them while the smaller mounds were burial mounds. The larger rectangular mounds sometimes had moat like ditches around them. Sometimes they dug ditches from the river to the larger mounds for canoe access to the village. They used the ditch dig dirt to build the mounds. I'm just spitting back what I have read. A good book is "Sun Circles and Human Hands"

[greenbean]

bring this thread back to the top. Question on the TN river dive pics. What area of the river were they found? Pickwick, Wheeler, KY lake? Just curious.

[Gman]

Are you sure that you are finding all these rocks, or are you just travelling around the southeast and dropping a few here and there and then taking pictures of them?
I'm just kiddin'.......
I found some arrowheads one time when I was about 9 and my papaw asked me did I get them out of his box and drop them on the ground and then pretend like I found them. I figured out later that he was wanting them for his collection.
Looking at all your photos brings back some good memories.....

[sorefeet]

You know hunting rocks isn't much different than hunting ducks or fishing. I like to find a new site on my own as much as I like to find an arrowhead. Might not kill any ducks one day but you watched them pitch in on a new spot and you will remember that under the conditions. You can walk an find the evidence (debris chips) and remember that spot for when the fall or spring plow comes.

I love to take those 'insitu' pictures of the rocks as they are found. You are the first to see the arrowhead since its creater last used it. Did that arrowhead kill a deer? Maybe 10 deer? Maybe a few dead Cherokees?

Nothing like getting stopped in your tracks as you spot a nice arrowhead flipped over in a plowed field and washed clean by the rain. Sometimes they are perched up on a little pedistal of dirt caused by the water rushing thru the field.



"The Flint Arrowhead"

"While traveling this land from border to border and from Sea to Sea, there have been a few occasions to leave the beaten path and to find the peace and quiet that's food for thought in just walking through a trackless forest, or exploring ruins of the earliest settlers, or walking along a creek bed, hoping to find a relic, such as a tomahawk, an axe or even an arrowhead, left by a race of long since vanished Indians. There's a great thrill and it's a wonderful feeling to find a flint arrowhead."

Johnny Cash, From Sea to Shining Sea

[sorefeet]

greenbean,
the rocks from the dives are from pickwick. I am a certified diver but I havn't tried it in the rivers or lakes. I think it best to get some low visability dive training before you try that.

[duckter]

Sorefeet,

Bet with those extra lbs. you a carryin' you might need to add a few weights to the bouyancy you've added over the last twenty years.


That's right...we comin' rock huntin' wich ya'.

[sorefeet]

Now that you mention it. Arrowhead is a good way to get up off that couch and get out to walk. I walk a field for 4 to 5 hours a stretch sometimes. Don't know how far that it but its good exercise. Add boots with mud on them like ankle weights and it a very good workout. Prolly don't do much for the gut but its good for the heart.

[greenbean]

bring this back to the top

[sorefeet]

Went arrowhead hunting today for a few hours. Most everything I found today was broken and these are just a few of them. I have several 5 gallon buckets full of broken points. I wish the kirk and the little bifucate were complete.... they would have been nice. Oh well... off to the pickle bucket ya go...

[sorefeet]

How about we look at a real rock? Here is a fluted cumberland found on Christmas day about two years ago somewhere around NW Alabama. He was offered $30K for it but he wouldn't take it. Wingman, most believe a rock like this one is at least 10000 years old.