This article was authored and kindly submitted by John Garrett, a.k.a. ‘Mojave’. We appreciate John’s many contributions to Arrowheadology as well as to the greater collecting community.
By John Garrett
This commentary examines one of the more curious peculiarities in the technological habit patterns of earliest Americans, generally referred to as Paleo-Indians; marginal grinding of projectile point [...]
Dr. Leslie Pfeiffer first reported on this Clovis Cache in the Central States Archaeological Journal (January 2005, volume 52, number 1, pp 32-33) and referred to it as the “Mullins Cache”. Discovered during a sand and gravel mining operation 2004 in Bastrop County (southeast-central Texas), this 13 piece cache is believed to be an [...]
Heritage Conservation Acts serve to protect history from being lost forever. What happens when these programs punish rather than reward citizens for doing the right thing?
“We felt invaded,” said Louise Allix, a property owner from Vancouver Island who is being held responsible for the $35,000 archeologist’s bill after her land was deemed a [...]
UPDATE: We’ve fired our Arrowheadology Staff photographer and posted his work to show why. Who spends all their time visiting and looking at artifacts while attending the Temple show on assignment and then tries to capture a few quick photos in the last 5 minutes while muttering something about having to leave early for a [...]
This article was authored and submitted by John Garrett (a.k.a. Mojave)
This article is for those who have occasioned across early American Glass Trade Beads. Hopefully information here will help individuals recognize, identify, and understand these colorful artifacts that have come to symbolize the illustrious history of the North American trade era. Many thanks are owed [...]
In an unprecedented move announced Wednesday, it appears the Musee du Louvre (Louvre), which houses 7,000 rare and valuable American Indian artifacts, will be liquidating it’s extensive collection. The reduction is a result of budget cuts and a nationalistic movement to showcase only Western European artifacts.
The United States has long petitioned the French institution [...]
Sometimes finding the right place to look for arrowheads will land you on someone else’s property. And, in these sensitive times, how you approach land owners can make the difference between a great haul of arrowheads and an ass full of buckshot!
Arrowheads, Federal Agents, Suicide, Informants…A Sad Tale from the Four Corners Area.
Posted on 02. Mar, 2010 by Shannon Graham.
The story unfolds like a Tony Hillerman novel, except in this case unfortunately the story is real. And it is a tragedy.
In June of 2009 more than 100 Federal agents, including an FBI SWAT team arrested 26 people in Utah, Colorado in New Mexico in what the Justice Department claimed to be ‘the nation’s largest [...]
As the hunt ends for 2009, we look back at the finds from 2009 and they are a plenty; new finds, friends, theories, bits of knowledge and just plain fun.
Before we get into specifics, a big ‘Thank You’ to all you Arrowheadologists is in order. This is your community and it’s no small feat what [...]
