HAPPY LABOR DAY!

[indianasmith]

Back in 1996, one of our local reservoirs dropped 8 feet low because of a drought.  This exposed an island that had been submerged since the lake filled in 1962.  Wave action had melted about 3-4 feet of topsoil off of the top of it, and when it came out of the water, the first guys to discover it found over 3000 complete arrowheads in ONE MONTH.  Then all the local collectors descended on it, and a couple thousand more points were found before the lake filled again.  Three times since the island has gotten shallow enough for people to hunt it, and probably another couple thousand points have been found on it since, spanning in age from a couple of Clovis points (13,000 years old) to Caddoan arrow points (500-1000 years old).  You can STILL find arrowheads there, but not as many now, of course.  The Indians made TONS of these things!

[ER]

To my eyes Cumberland points are the most beautiful of all lithic creations. Lovely and deadly, who could wish for more?

http://www.projectilepoints.net/Points/Cumberland.html

[RCMerchant]

There was a old dirt pit in a field way in back of our house near the woods we called the Indian Pit. Supposedly it was some kind of Indian settlement 100's of years ago. I found all sortsa arrowheads and stones with deep impressions in them, because they used them to grind grain. Mortars! That was when I was a teenager. I don't know what happened to all that stuff we found. I reckon the dirt pit is still there. In fact- I'm sure it is.