Its not always shark teeth. I love hunting artifacts too, but I don't have nearly the success with arrowheads that I have with shark teeth. There were lots of Native Americans around here from the Paleo period all the way up through first contact with Europeans in the 1600s, but the proof is hard to find because the area has been built up and concreted over for centuries burying indian artifacts under buildings and parking lots. But there are still things to find. We run across pottery and debitage from time to time, very rarely we find an arrowhead when we are in pursuit of a new spot to collect. Finds are sporadic, but they are there. I got permission in a new field and I walked around for a while but I didn't find much at all. There was no pottery, no flakes up front where I parked. I saw on the map there was a stream near the back so I started walking towards it, knowing that prehistoric people liked water just like modern people like water. All the sudden I spotted several pieces of chert - six pieces all close together. All had signs of being worked, one even shaped like a rough triangle. Never in my life have I found so many large pieces together. There are not rocks in the top soil around here, especially not chert. I called Diva and told her I think I found a cache. The next day she came with me to the spot and we dug out a whole bunch of other blades and preforms. I'm not going to say how many, that's what the video is for. We filmed every one for your viewing pleasure! I don't know if there have been other Native American blade and preform caches found in the Charleston South Carolina area, but this is certainly the first one I ever found. I did a bunch of searching and while people do find caches of indian artifacts, they aren't common. The crazy thing is there was next nothing else in the entire field. Only a few isolated pieces of pottery and a couple of flakes. There was not an occupation site anywhere that me or @AncientAdventures could find. Whoever buried these hid them well. For thousands of years they lay hidden away until this lucky collector chanced upon them to save them and share them with you.
4 апр 2024
