Comments on: Part Time Curators; How Are You Doing on Your Shift?

By: bushman

bushman — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 02:21:59 +0000

Keep all the records you want but when the feds come-a-knocking!When your from west of the rockes BLM is god.

By: THE BOOMSWAGGLER

THE BOOMSWAGGLER — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 06:21:57 +0000

well, i know for me, i dont hunt points for any other reason than pick up something which i respect so much to put it behind glass and stare at. Not for monetary value, but for the love. And an even bigger reason is that. we will never know who made this.. there story.. they are to be respected. if you pulled out my collection and randomly pointed at one, i could tell you where i found it, how deep and the weather on that day… and most likely what time it was.. but we can never ask the Native who made/ lost/ maybe even died with this on them. where or why they made it.. and that my digging friends is part of the mystery, part of why all of us are diggers, it brings the kid out, and leaves our imagination to run wild with ideas of what could or what was. and i think passing that on will be such a great thing. as long as the respect is held mutual by the receiver.
Lawson.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:25:14 +0000

i am often amazed to discover that a point in my collection that i would surly remember where that came from? right? NAH not even close some t imes i am sometimes even wrong about the state I drove trucks for a number of years and hunted from coast tocoast with mybest finds in Tenn Ark Ohio. so some times those little numbers can make all the diff between remembering or not 41 for texas followed by a two letter county is all i need to pin point the site mark your stuff so it means something even that litle bit of info is better then nothing. as for that idiot who removed all his numbers after hearing the story abut the state goons taking their artifacts what a moron. you stil got your points yeah so o i

By: Wesley

Wesley — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:21:36 +0000

I did what Stacy Reeves did I loaned the ones I found to the museum close to where I found the arrowheads .They had them for about a year then they told me to come and get them . With some of the laws about owning Indian artifacts they told me they would rather I would keep them . They were afraid the Indians would end up with them.

By: Archie

Archie — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:28:12 +0000

I,ve been searching for some time now, the problem is i dont know what book i’m lookin for. I want to find a book that describe the physical features or other variables involved in classifying the type of point, or object. For example, to me there is not an obvious difference between a clovis and a dalton, i wanna know how one would classify his own with some degree of accuracy.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:27:08 +0000

By: Randy Godwin

Randy Godwin — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:42:47 +0000

Almost all of my points and artifacts come from one kill zone on my farm. None can be called “in situ” as this section has been used for row crops for almost 100 years. How does one go about cataloging these finds?

By: Brad Warren

Brad Warren — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:53:47 +0000

This was a great artical…! I guess i need to get with the program…I will admit my catalogueing has been minimal….well i have my work cut out for myself..better get to work…Thanks for the motivation!~

By: Big Ed

Big Ed — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:26:28 +0000

Great article, Shannon!

By: Stacy Reeves

Stacy Reeves — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:47:08 +0000

It’s certainly something I thought about… what would happen to my collection when I’m gone. I have a grown son that it’s destined to receive it. But collecting arrowheads was never his ‘thing’ and he would not see it’s full value, monetarily or historically. I mostly collected from one local site when I was a teen. I kept even the least significant item: shards of pottery, flint scrapers and broken arrowheads. I realized that much of what I had collected would end up in the trash two or three generations down the line, even if it were cataloged and labeled correctly. Certainly the finer arrowheads would be kept, but I was concerned about the rest. So as an act of historical preservation, and for my piece of mind, I packed up all those boxes of less-valued items. Labeled the boxes with my name, contact information, contents, when and where the items were found. Each arrowhead was marked with the location it was found. I then presented that portion of my collection to a local museum. They were ecstatic to have them. Now those artifacts will always remain close to where I found them, keeping local history where it should be. They will be studied and preserved. My community can now see and learn more of it’s local pre-history, and as an added bonus, I got a tax deduction from my ‘gift’.