Paleoman52's Top 5 finds
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- Опубліковано 26 чер 2012
- These are what I came up with for my entry into the top 5 finds challenge that has been issued. All of these finds were made in one big field that was kept private by the farmer who owned and farmed the land. I was given exclusive permission to hunt this field after doing a favor for the farmer and what I found when I went there my first time was simply amazing. I hope you enjoy my top 5 finds!
Ken, that is absolutely incredible...I gasped when I saw your top 1..!!!
Thank you for sharing.
What a great favorite 5!! A feild like that is what dreams are made of!! That abrading stone is too cool. Love the lady rock & the banner stone. Then came the case! What an amazing collection all in itself! Really great that you have the major part of the camp! Thanks for giving us a peek!!
Ga. Rob & Terrie
Damn! I am speechless!!!
Absolutely Phenomenal!
How Awsome!
There are a certain number of days in a lifetime you never forget and this is one of them. I enjoy telling the story and reliving those experiences. Many thanks for this cool challenge to get me to once again take that trip down memory lane.
Wow wow wow! Awesome one day find.
Thank you for sharing your finds, time and stories with us. Only a few of us are blessed to walk a field and glean its rewards! Absolutely amazing! :)
Absolutely incredible artifacts.
Great story, and history. Love your channel, can't wait to watch some of your newer videos as well
Thanks so much for watching Brian, and thanks for commenting it is much appreciated!
Thanks so much Pestleman for inspiring all of us to show the things that mean a lot to us. I'm glad to see that you get me and the way I see things, the secret is what you said, see things with an open mind and expect the unexpected. When I found all those things I was so surprised because they were not things I would usually see while hunting for artifacts. I also have some really nice nutting stones from that field too. Thanks again my friend for starting this challenge!
Oh my, i cant even imagine being in that field finding those points in one day, Just enjoying the shock and amazement of it, very very impressive.. Im impressed with your finds man there awsum and love the story's behind each one..
Wow. In a state (Idaho) where you can't pick up up artifacts, this is mind blowing!
Thanx for sharing so other folks like me who are interested can learn and be inspired by your experiences and knowledge- just as the paleoindians did! I believe they lived a very rich and fulfilling life, I think it was a very good life, probably better than ours!
The day that I found all those points will be in my mind forever. When I got home and emptied out all my pockets I was stunned by the pile of stuff I had picked up. That is such a good field and then to find that star pendant, it was the icing on the cake.
About 1960 me and my two friend, John watkiss,everett hinakee,picked up almost a thousand artifacts over the course of 3summers at a big encampment on hickory creek ,between mokena &new Lennox, ill.. it was a time I'll never forget.... a professor of siu told us that there may have been as many as one thousand early woodland Indians lived there..after every rain we were out there..
that is a great collection all by itself in 1 day, what a day, love them all.
thanks for posting Ken
I hear ya HuntToThrill, it was surreal, like a dream you didn't want to wake up from. That is one of those days of a lifetime that you rarely get to experience. I remember bending down to pick up a point and looking to my right and seeing another point and looking to my left and seeing even more points. It was crazy! One can only hope that they can have another day even close to that one.
Awesome man what a day you can't never forget that one
Outstanding post! Your hard stones are the epitome of your hard work over the years. Thank you for showing them.
Thanks so much for watching and for your comments. I still look at these amazing finds and feel fortunate to have found all of them. They will be cared for and hopefully my son will also love them.
That frame of those points is my favorite frame. It's a day I'll never forget Tim. It's kind of cool how heavy the Lamoka component of that site is. There are a few strays in there but I would say at least 80% is Lamoka phase points. Thanks for checking out my video. I hope I have another day like that someday but I highly doubt it will happen.
The word rescued is the key here Jim. I can't imagine how many times those artifacts were plowed up and down since the field was first cleared so it was necessary to pick them up and keep them together before they were destroyed by the ever increasing heavy farm machinery. I'll keep my eye on you when you visit and check your pockets, haha! That field is one of those places you can go and just feel the presence of past people living there. It's a beautiful, removed place.
That is just soo cool. I love the story with this! It just goes to show you that you truly get what you give. I want to make a top 5 now :) Thanks for sharing, im going to fav this video.
Thanks so much for your great comments, I hope I get to see your top 5. It was hard for me to decide on just what I was going to use as my top 5 because I love every artifact that I am fortunate enough to find.
That field definitely was a dream come true, and it is hard to believe sometimes that that day actually happened. Life's journey can take you to some amazing places sometimes, I'll alawys cherish the memories of that day and the artifact will act as a constant reminder to me. I'm glad I could share this here with others with a common interest. Thanks MrSpubby for watching.
Very good information. Love to learn. Thanks.
Amazing, if I found that many in one day I would never forget it, very special, glad I just found your channel, the banner stone is my favorite
just found this very interesting , im from NY I was gonna ask about arrow heads in my state but kept reading and you answerd my Question I was gonna ask a few paragraphs ago !! you were very lucky to have the farmer giving you permision !! and what an awsome find .It would prob. take me a life time to find that many points.I'm impressed !! and really like your video's keep up the good work .
Nice. was already impressed on the top four (I had to pause when you went to number five) ...:) WOW, I bet you were blown away....AWESOME... The beauty in the star that was notched and maybe given as A necklace is to A special someone is too sweet. Always enjoy, thank you.
Awesome finds , a day to remember for life for sure .
OMG, What a great pick of FIVE..er..[+85] ARTIFACTS !!! And such interesting stories your little uncommon stones tell to someone who can read them. Excellently illustrative of the way one needs to look with an open mind towards the possibility of finding things completely unexpected or even previously unguessed !!! And the need to stay sharp to not overlook something almost ordinary looking but to an alert brain a freaking cool treasure of a find !! Just a smashingly good ENTRY !!! Thanks.!!!
That is crazy, what a day that would have been! Such a geat story. That unfinished bannerstone is pretty neat as well. Thanks for sharing!
Awesome amazing finds...wow! 👍🏼
Thanks for watching!
Wow. One day what a day. That is definitely the finds of a lifetime
I can only dream of a field like that and never mind a day like that! Very Impressive!
Omg amazing artifacts and an amazing story thank you for sharing
sick.. thats amazing man just amazing!
Wow!
Great, great story. Makes you wonder.
What master knapper would walk away from his tools of a lifetime? What lover would abandon the pendant of her brave? What craftsperson would have left a half drilled bannerstone? Whose braves would have abandoned never shot quivers of arrows? Found just the way they were abandoned - in a hurry.
Have you ever considered researching the field/area for the rest of the story? Thanks for sharing.
Awesome artifacts!! That banner is KILLER, and a super Nice frame of greys!
Wow. Amazing finds!
Wow!!!! that's a lot of points for one day! and the banner is totally awesome!!! thanks for sharing!
That farmer owned that land a long time and never allowed anyone to hunt on it. He found an occasional point from time to time when he walked across it Deer and Turkey hunting! So when I went on it the first time the stuff was laying all over that field.
Those are some very cool artifacts, and Holy Smoke what a one day find.
Definitely enjoyed watching! What an incredible day you had, when you filled that frame..and the bannerstone, wow! One has to wonder what happened, that the maker was unable to finish drilling the hole. I think that just adds to it =)
Yes! I really enjoyed watching.
Now, I have to see your knapping!
I find gobs of tools in the desert SW, but we can only collect on private property with permission. With all the millions of acres of BLM land here, it is forbidden to collect artifacts there. I guess it’s good to leave some for the future dreamers.
Thank you,
Thanks so much for watching Cecilie! I hope you have fun making your own chipped stone creations! Be sure to checkout my 2 part series on Making a Snyder's Point from start to finish. I show every flake I remove to make that point. Lots of good technique in those videos. I have playlists on my channel that you can bring up to see what you are looking for.
Paleoman52 Yes, your instructional videos are well done. I’ll be watching more, but today the sands are calling with ancient treasures to be seen! 🛠 Maybe I can send some photos for your possible identification for their functions? I saw and email address somewhere in the remarks......
Thank you 🙏
That farmer more than compensated me for those necklaces by letting me have the run of that place. I probably have found close to 500 points all together over the years there. Good Luck at your dig, and thanks so much for the comments Devon!
Wow,that may be a record amount for one day, we may not have the prettiest points here upstate, but there all good! Still love Onondaga Flint. We do have some really cool stone tools though. Recently subscribed so I'm going back over older vids. Love the local stuff.
I'm glad this challenge was issued because it made me focus on the things that stood out from the rest of my finds. The banner stone is made out of a type of hard greenstone that is glacially deposited in my area. I'll never forget that day finding all those points and what you saw were the good ones I probably had twice that many broken points and scrapers. I wrote an article one time for Indian Artifact Magazine about the star stone called "a possible personal adornment". Thanks for watching!
That is awesome my friend an truly amazing to me as well i found a peace several years ago unlike any i had ever seen before until today. In your case num 3 from the top left corner. I sure wish i could pick someones brain about what that is exactly i have a very nice one from Alabama.
A few months ago I found one of those stones that stuff is grinded on. It fits so perfectly in the hand. It turns out it was broken, but might have been made that way. It was from the chugnut tribe
I found an arrow head on my last visit to the ranch in south Texas while deer hunting and got excited really looking forward to going back to hunt for arrow heads this time thanks for sharing!
+Candelario Sanchez Good Luck next time you visit the ranch. Finding an arrowhead is so thrilling when you realize that you are the first person to touch that arrowhead since the guy that made it hundreds, even thousands of years ago last touched it. It makes such a cool connection to the past!
Holy crap. Wow!!
Amazing
The pendant sun or star is a real cool one
I love finding all those other things associated with everyday life and that star stone was the icing on the cake because it showed an appreciation for things not functional but unique and beautiful. The notches in the side gave it away that this was tied with a leather thong and probably worn around the neck. That was a prized personal possession in my mind and so meaningful. A fellow I know that lives down the road has stolen a lot of points off that farm, not good.
Dropped my jaw when I saw all those points
wow ken i bet u are so glad u made them for the farmer....that is insane man.... the little ladies rock lol is killer...bannerstone is sick would have been amazing if he would have drilled the hole all the way...great vid...i am headed out digging at that spring tomorrow off my last video.hope i come up with something good for ya...thanks for the video
That first tool would probably put a nice sharp tip on your pressure flaker too!
Love that Star stone....cool pattern...What is the material on that sweet Banner?
Talk bout a boatload of points in one day!!There used to be a field here that was almost as good volume wise,but it had everything from Missippian to Paleo in it....they don't plow it any more though. :-( Killer Top 5 Ken,glad you took part!
very nice !
It's still my favorite place to look when the field gets put into corn. Now it is seeded down to alfalfa for a few years and won't be look-able for a while. I found some really cool thing there!
It is so amazing when you find an artifact to realize that each thing you find has a story to tell. I always wonder what the person looked like that made the arrowhead I am holding. The star pendant is the one that really intrigues me because that one must have quite a story all its own. Those side notches really speaks volumes that it was tied and possibly worn. I'm sure there are many more surprises yet to surface in that field.
I would give anything just to find a point but WOW!!! Very nice!
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I just got to be a question Flinapping Jim won Clovis points
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Rockhead that's more pieces than I've found in the last 3 years. It's good to fill up a case in one trip and get your hunting with over for the year isn't it? I really enjoy just walking the fields and getting out in nature but finding a few artifacts along the way just adds to the experience. That farmer never really walked that field like I did that day and it was obvious that he would just pick them up as he walked across the site to get to his hunting areas. The banner is my favorite too.
thats more pieces in one day than most guys find in a year or better ! The bannerstone is sweet and the others are pretty interesting !
It's been about 15 years for me too since I had a day as good as that one!
I'll probably never have a day like that again around my area, especially now since most of the farmers are using no till farming practices. When I started looking back in 1983, it was common for me to come home with 12 -15 good points in my pocket, now its mostly one and done if I'm lucky. I wish I had a video camera with me that day. Thanks for watching Robert.
Thanks so much cabelly27, I'm glad you checked out my Top 5 finds. What I remember most about that day was that all of my pants pockets were bulging and I had to make a small pile near the end of the field of the hardstone tools that I couldn't fit in my pockets, haha! The next time I went there I was much better prepared to haul the load back, unfortunately I never had a haul like that again.
Flintspall you wouldn't believe all the stories I have to tell, don't get me started, haha! Someday I'll have to share my adventures I had with a friend of mine that is a cropduster. He knew some folks near Dyersburg Tennessee, and we made a road trip down there back in 1990. We stayed there 8 days and hunted arrowheads along the Mississippi. Many stories to be told there. Thanks for the comments my friend!
WOW Ken thats A Amazing FaV 5, I Hopen One of these Days I can Spot a Hammer Stone or Two out in my big or little sea of dirt,if I could find more than 1,I'd like to hav 1 for use, & Your Banner Stone IS Just Stellar & I'm w/YA ON They Made Many Things to Ornament Themselves & Others with Such Items They Would Find, iT's Part OF Human Nature that I Think has been around longer than what most people think & Than YOUR 1 Day HuntCase Over 80 Pieces That Would Be My FaV 2
BORN 10,000 YR's TO LATE
awesome stuff 1 can only dream of finding that many in 1 day in 1 field and that many hole pieces would of like to have seen that day on video
That possibility is a good one, the only problem is that the whitish markings go through the stone and come out the other side. I've examined that thing with a fine tooth comb and it appears that the markings are part of the rock, it sure is a rare find, but even cooler is the thought that not only one person found, but two did, and the original finder notched it halfway down on both sides. That imagine almost looks like a man walking and swinging his arms also.
It's kind of funny how my top 5 all came from that one large field, when I think about all the other fields I hunt and all the artifacts I have found since 1983. We find a lot of hammerstones in our fields here in the Northeast Mike, they are plentiful because the glaciers that covered our area spread them across the land like frosting on a cake. The Indians had no problems finding a nice cobble to use. Thanks always my friend for all your comments and for watching my videos.
I don’t think that one is a banner stone. I think it was used to hold the end of the stick while you Spin it. Either for drilling or starting fires.
WOW SWEET BANNER REGARDLESS MY BEST WAS 56 ...BOUT 15 YEARS AGO HAVENT REALLY BEEN BACK MAYBE I BETTER TRY AGAIN ONE DAY
That’s a cool axe head
I had a nice day like that once. I think you have a workshop out there. A kill site wouldn't have that volume of projectiles. A habitation would have greater variety of tools. I think you got the equivilent of a Late Archaic barber shop. A place where things were knapped and drilled and tools were repaired. A social gathering site. I have over 30 perfect thumb scrapers from a tiny area in a field where women likely worked. Use Google Earth and map your finds. A map usually answers these questions.
Thanks Richard, I have a theory about that banner stone that makes sense to me. It is possible that he only drilled it that far because he wrapped rawhide around it as it layed on the handle and put a pin in the end and tied that to the handle to keep it in place and from wobbling. This saved a lot of effort drilling it all the way through. I know that probably sounds confusing but I could show you what I mean more than try to explain it. Regardless it was an awesome find for me.
Not a bad day at all!!!
some guy told me he found a rock in bay area.
was old, worn, very smooth, had 2 holes looked like a elongated skull.
looked alot like the keys from goonies i think it was.
Very cool find!
All that belongs in a museum.
I have offered it to the local museum and they don't want any of it as they have a basement full of these things. If I was to give it to them it would be put in a box and stored in the museum basement. Museums don't care for artifacts as well as people that find them and keep them in a collection, that is very well cared for. I actually rescued these artifacts from further destruction from agricultural equipment.
Hey thanks for the comments 00hellgramite, I am honored you liked my top 5. Yep, all those points were made out of one type of rock, Onondaga chert. That banner still thrills me when I hold it because as you mentioned, someone took a lot of time getting it that far and then abruptly stopped for some unknown reason, so many possibilities as to what could have happened. Also thanks for the sub!
That first hunt was never matched but I would come away with a nice amount of points every year for a few years until the guy down the road got wind of this place and would try to get on there before I could. I would wait until is was plowed and planted and rained on a couple of times then go there, and his tracks were there ahead of me. Eventually the farmer caught up with him and told him to keep off, but he still managed to sneak in occasionally.
I'm a forensic paleo artist and I've trained my eye to see the subtleties of the maker's marks (lightly engraved faces) and on your first tool I clearly see it. I resurrect the natives into their afterlife by connecting the dots with a pencil then photographing what's there which I point to first as you can see it with the naked eye - I just darken the lines so others can see it easily and the pencil is easily washed off afterwards and the same drawing can be re-drawn because it's actually IN the stone - not my imagination. I'm an avocational archaeologist. Would love to meet you some time. Hi. I'm Rosemary Storm. Archaeology by Storm. See my .com if you're curious to hear my music and on youtube along with my older sports vids. Thank you for your educational vids. You're wonderful. xo
Thanks so much for your great comments Rosemary! Have a great day and thanks for watching, I'll check out you .com.
omg ! in one day..
Wow
This is a great past time and very interesting , I love exploring around hunting for antlers in the spring , but i have always been interested in finding arrow heads , no luck so far but my very first time out I found on the side of a hill what looks like some sort of a tool , something that was held in the hand and used to grind food or something , It would be very interesting to hear your opinion of what it might be , I could send a picture of it , thanks .
I'd love to see some pics of what you found. My email is kwallace4@rochester.rr.com
MY word...Wonder how many hes found in the field?!!!!...The abraders cool
Hey man I love this one , every single one who watched it is admiring your cool personal hardstone artifacts and going , wow PM52 isn't showing any points . Qow he's gone through the first four and no points !!! AHhahahahahahaha !!!!~
I think I am the only one too that recognizes the more uncommon artifacts in the fields. The bannerstone is made out of a hard glacial greenstone material. It is very dense and quite heavy and comes off the Canadian shield North of us. I was disappointed this year to see that field go into alfalfa because it will probably not be plowed again for 3 or 4 years. Good farming practices dictate this though because it has been in corn for a few years and needs the nitrogen back into the soil.
Still back in time! Really awesome! THAT is am amazing story! Tools, tools, tools!!! I was only around in 2012 watching folks videos... never even thinking I might share the finding which was just beginning. Now after about 1 year it has been a fantastic ride! The heart and devotion of so many lifetime collectors! I appreciate the story you shared! Here are a couple you might appreciate... ua-cam.com/video/hi6aDY_CAHQ/v-deo.html ... ua-cam.com/video/ay6wWkAECRQ/v-deo.html
I can see how easily the first four pieces could be overlooked by hobby hunters not really educated in the field. No wonder the owner didn't want Yahoos running around being the usual idiots.
Well you bet !!! But I think I may be enjoying it more than anybody !!!! Except for FlintSpaller de Brawler, he sure seems to get a kick out of keeping me real !!! You know he PMed me a while ago and said folks were contacting him, concerned that we were having a problem, and he was laughing his rear off. So he asked me," should I tell them we're just goofing ?? I told him, Not on your life, Not until we got a FAT movie deal out of it !!!! AHhahahahahaha !!!! As if. lol
Those are awesome,love the hammer and abrader I am the only one that picks that stuff around my area ,That banner is cool ,that material is that quartz, The number one is Killer Thats what I call the sweet spot,You could have called that 1-5 just gettin that spot to hunt,
Haha! I'm sure you were wondering where the points were, I thought I would save the best for last, although I did break the rules by 80+ points, sorry, I just can't seem to follow rules very well, its the caveman in me I guess!
Are you sure that abraider is not really an arrow straightener?
The reason I have determined that the stone I called the abrading is that it shows the exact same wear my own abraders show as I knapp arrowheads.
What state were you in?
I live in the Western part of New York State about 50 miles southeast of Buffalo New York.
Hey thanks bama jones, I was so thrilled when that farmer came to my house and told me to look there anytime I wanted. I knew about that site from a friend of mine that snuck on there and got kicked off, so I wasn't about to go there without the farmers blessings. He wanted to give all his grandkids an arrowhead necklace made with a point he had found. I did a really nice job on them and I really didn't expect anything in return so I was really surprised when he gave me permission.
9 years ago lol I almost did a top 5 lol
do you have a web site where I could send a picture of a point for identification?
+Greg Smith You can send me a private email message through my youtube page.
Hello. I enjoyed your video. I live in upstate New York, near Lamoka lake. If I may ask, do you think this area would be a good place to search? Thank You.
Definitely! The reason these points are named Lamoka points is that it is believed that the Lamoka people originated and branched out from your area. You should find lots of Lamoka points in the fields around the Lake. Good Luck and let me know how you do!
Wow , i just realized I've been passing over some things i didn't recognize as important..😒
Wow i did Good
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I wouldn’t have given a damn if I had permission or not. As long as you uphold the outlaw digger code: leave no trace, cover your holes, hunt with military precision and cherish your finds.