Arrowheads, Federal Agents, Suicide, Informants…A Sad Tale from the Four Corners Area.

Posted on02. 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 [...]

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Arrowheadology; 2009 in Review

Posted on31. Dec, 2009 by Shannon Graham.

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 [...]

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Black Tea Time in Texas – A Ritual Drinking Vessel?

Posted on15. Nov, 2009 by Shannon Graham.

If artifacts could speak, imagine the stories they would reveal. Of course this would remove some of the fun in piecing together clues from the past.
The focus here is an artifact discovered in central Texas, a large Lightning Whelk shell that has been modified by having the central collumella removed, a portion of [...]

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The Lost City of Z; Greatest Exploration Mystery of the 20th Century

Posted on24. Feb, 2009 by Shannon Graham.

The Amazon Jungle, the last great unexplored region on the map. It is the birthplace of El Dorado, ‘the gilded man’, where it was said a tribal chief would cover himself in gold dust blown from a hollow cane. This tale of gold excess lured Spanish conquistadors into the region and many to their [...]

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Iceman Reveals More Secrets

Posted on28. Jan, 2009 by Shannon Graham.

Oetzi, the ‘Iceman’ discovered in thawing in the Italian Alps in 1991 continues to reveal much about his way of life some 5300 years ago.

In 2007 scientists speculated that severe head trauma and a lethal arrowhead wound in the shoulder killed the iceman.

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