A History Mystery on the ranch today.
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- I’m finding artifacts in a strange place . Help me solve the mystery.
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Aanii (hello in Ojibwe) from Ontario ❤️🇨🇦❤️ traditionally points were made for many different uses. The ones that are flaked on one direction only could have been used to scrape hides, if they're too sharp they cut the hide. I've done brain tanning of hides and we could only use stone, bone or antler that we sharpened to an edge. I'm excited to see what else you find
Creek indians and other indigenous peoples lived on my property, i have found thousands of stone artifacts. Axes,knives,arrowheads,spearheads,even found a mortor and pedistal.
Some of the arrow heads are made of material that doesnt exist here. So i did some research and found that the peoples that lived here were famous for their tanned hides so indigenous people traveled here to trade bringing items made from materials where they came from.
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There is alot of Native American history in Canadian Texas. My guess would be the different stones used to make the weapons came from different tribes left behind when they were hunting Buffalo there. When I did a Google search there was plenty of information available. It is so cool that you have Native American History on your land what an awesome privilege! Congratulations on all your finds, I'm sure that there are many more to come.
What about the theory of overlapping scout/hunting parties over the centuries. How much has the river flow changed in the last 2000 yrs? Great video, I can't wait to see what everyone else says. Looking forward to the upcoming video on what else you discovered👍🍻
All I can say for sure is you have taken digging for points to another level. 👍
Great video as always Bud. That would be awesome to be able to do what you’re doing. A lot of people are saying to contact colleges but don’t do that. Don’t let them on your land. You’re dealing with nomadic Indians. They picked up material for points all over. Keep up the great work Bud.
Those points could be much much older than you re thinking. DO NOT LET THE STATE ARCHEOLOGISTS ON YOUR PROPERTY. THEY CAN SHUT MOST IF NOT ALL OF YOUR OPERATION DOWN AND KEEP YOU OFF YOUR OWN PROPERTY. THEY DID THAT TO SOME OF MY SISTERS FRIENDS NEAR MARSHALL TEXAS . He was is interested in history of the Indians in that area and let them do a dig. It ended up costing him a lot of money in legal fees. He lost most of the use of his property for several months.
Like the skid steer..... Beautiful machine
Interesting find,got me stumped too,but will be looking for the next clue.
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Those are some cool spear heads. Indians used to take down Buffalo near Rivers and would use the River as a fence to pinch them in. My guess is that Red Deer Creek used to be a River over a thousand years ago, and you are finding those spear heads closer to what used to be the bank by that well head. They would often break the points off in the Buffalo, and that is why you are finding the points and nothing from a camp. You might get lucky and come across an old skull.
Thanks! I hope so!
Awesome video Jason! I do recognize those points and look similar to Caddo. My suggestion is to look in the old river beds as that would be where the tribes would harvest the stones for point making. May find bird points and others there. Best of luck and keep the videos coming we all enjoy them and your story telling! Stay blessed!
Thank You Jason!!!
Scott Brosowske with Courson Archeological would be a great guy to reach out to. Just down the road in Perryton!
Texans know horses better than any other state.
These look like they were used to scrape hides. Possibly a "processing spot" to clean and stretch hides for tanning? In my area of Arizona we find a lot of pottery and points come to the top of the ground after rains.
you got it right! kinda cool, for sure.
Make an episode about horses. you are a big dog when it comes to them. Most Americans don't even know how to not be scared of them. You are one of the most put-together dudes I
know.
LOVE YOUR PRIORITIES!!!!
LOOK ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE DRAINAGE WHERE YOU
WERE STANDING. THE WATER FLOW COULD HAVE BEEN MUCH LARGER (SMALL RIVER) AT THE TIME.
Awesome video Jason, you need to have an archeological research done on your ranch !!! Great stuff...I'm just an amateur arrowheads hunter, found some that are very comparable to yours, but I found in Mexico, we deer hunted there for 10 years ! 🦌 Creek beds are going to hold the answers ! Good luck ! Hope Bonnie is doing well !
09:04 The Cowboy Stomp!
Well I'll say this...were I a trader, that looks like a nice lil valley/strip to parallel. Particularly if it were next to crops at one point, a little snack along the way and if there was an actual camp nearby it would be a bonus. This could also explain the radical difference in stones. They were carried in. You mentioned quartz but I don't recall you saying whether or not this is something found locally or how far the nearest quartz deposit might be.
From all the high points around you, it looks as if it would be a great place to meet up for trades from multiple directions. A great deal of trade routes follow the earthworks and that valley looks like a good walk.
The sporadic spread of the points could just be simple turning of the land by farmers and the shards could be the result of damage from the equipment doing it rather than it being a manufacture site. That's also a lot of topsoil so it seems just purely mathematically that the oilmen scraped aside a couple hundred years worth easy.
It IS cool and I'm glad you shared with us, those are some beuts especially that ginormous spear head!! What do you do with them in the long term?
Good stuff as usual, Jason. Huzzah for History!!
Fascinating finds. Thanks for providing a forum for folks to submit their ideas about what you have.
Jason Dave here from Bayard, New Mexico. Born in Amarillo, orphaned and grew up cowboying just outside your place on the Turkey Track and the JA. Found many of what you have shown, couldn’t make sense of it then except Adobe walls was on the Turkey Track. Brought back memories of child hood on the breaks. Enjoy the channel. Thanks
They maybe knifes instead of spear points, I've found a similar and my research lead to it being a flint knife
Right on. This is really exciting for sure. Cannot wait. Can we see those metal Arrowheads. Really cool.
Depending on how serious you are about solving the mystery, I would reach out to West Texas A&M and see if they have an anthropology department. They might can give you some insight
Very nice points! I have never found those big “spear” points. Maybe a buffalo hunting party member had his points in a leather pouch and lost them and the leather disintegrated or maybe where the butchered a bison and they were left in the carcass. Lot can change over up to 6000 years! Keep it up!
Love your channel. Pretty much everything you do interests me. Been finding some arrowheads here in Jones , County Texas.
Cool stuff
Cool stuff Jason 👍🏼
Pow wow location and many tribes gathered and traded, possible reason for the varieties of artifacts
Great show! Very interesting! Looking forward to seeing more about the dig! 🤠🇺🇸
Good moning Romania 🇹🇩❤️👋 Marius
"Banded Clovis" and "Rocks and Relics" by Tyler Childers. You're welcome. Can you keep showing us what you find Jason?
U could definitely get a job with CSI....🤣😂🤣
Congrats on finding important history!
Very possible.... The creeks at one time ran near where you are standing... Over 100,000 years the area had a abundance of water and stream flow....
Occording to the archiology the Athabascans in the plains region presumably started with small game hunting gather. And of course with the advant of the horse, the occupance of the land resorted to big game hunting. It was discovered these people cooked utilizing the buffalo stomach and carrying water. Also to fine pottery shards would be extremely rare. The small game hunter of the southwestern used the pottery in a lot of their cooking. They used the mud from near by rivers. That's why abundance of pottery shards are found in clifdwellings along rivers and water sourses. As far as the points, they seem to be manufactured exquisitely very well. You're probably right that that area may have been a camp. The plains Indians were a very mobile group. I enjoyed your content. Keep up the good work. Love you videos.
I find a lot of pottery. I have some super cool pieces of pottery. 👍🏻
I REALLY ENJOY WATCHING AND LISTENING TO YOU ,YOU HAVE GREAT STOCK OF ALL KIND AND A NEAT RANCH
Fascinating mystery. I’m looking forward to reading the comments. Is there a archeology university nearby that would come out for a look see?
Watching you harness your Percherons was badass cool.
Everyone loves horses. The problem is nobody knows anything about how to look at them. You know that shit better than most. Horses can be scary.
Indian Battle ground is kind of my guess, but you have some knife blades there used for fleshing hides so my next guess would be trade grounds. that would explain the many different types of flint you are finding. Plus the bigger knife blades.
Giants!!!
How fun finding all of this stuff, from the Natives to the farmers, on your place. I will be looking forward to a follow up video when you find out more. 😊
Seems like your ranch was on a trading route or was an area for Indian rendezvous where they met and traded etc. That would explain the multiple designs, shapes and materials. Tribes would meet and trade for things they needed, they did this for thousands of years. I’m guessing the flake areas you find are from semi permanent encampments, where they were actually making stuff. Other places where you find a heavy mix, or really odd stuff would be rendezvous camps.
No idea, but we headed your way soon. Be glad to stop by and help look for more! Hell, I’ll even work on the ranch for a week, help service equipment and generators, pick up old antlers. Retired law enforcement, have truck camper, (not a Lance thanks to your video) headed out west and looking for adventure. Let me know?
Sweet video! I really love the Indian history video, keep them rolling. God bless
Likely Antelope Creek Phase camp and older. The flakes are there. Should find all stages of Haraheys along with Washitas, turtle-back scrapers, etc. Also usually bone fragments and possible awls and other tools. Keep it up and keep us posted! Thanks for sharing!
Those big blades are early stage Haraheys and preforms. Great finds!
Interesting ! The mystery !
You have the best videos. Hope you find an answer to your mystery.
Off topic for this video but on the dog video you were talking about Buffalo and there bein a lot of experts lol… was wondering where you got yours from.. my Family in Central Kansas own Plumlee Buffalo Ranch, I know they sell a ton all over the country. Didn’t know if you ever worked with them or not
Great video...thanks for sharing!
You are the John Wayne of UA-cam.
Thanks for the video.
It was an Indian sicarios arsenal stash
Barry D Sims Jr
Challis, Idaho
Do you think that they would have had an ambush site for game down by the creek, hence the broken points pushed up by the dozer at some point in time?
Some of the larger items could be tools to e.g. partition up game, old style knifes. Broken tools would have most likely been discarded if it couldn’t have been reworked into something else. Shards I would expect at a camp site or living areas, while discarded or lost tools would be in a hunting area. If there was amble access to good flint they might just discard broken items instead of taking them “home” for rework. One of the larger items seems to have broken in two, which could have been a spear point, so when it broke it’s unusable for the primary function.
Since it is close to a river it would be a natural place to regularly hunt and initially process the hunted game before transport to living area.
Maybe look on the other side of the gas well for more information,
Any idea on the timeline of the camps and settlers? Very interesting question, you brought up.
Very interesting video ! Hope to see more . Elwin from Amsterdam.
Great Video like always! I think a good video idea would be introducing your horses with their back stories! God Bless
I have no idea but it’s definitely interesting! Cool stuff!!
Good luck Jason
points were made constantly, on the move in scout parties, when they go trading and flint was trade material, tribes would bring it from high flint areas and trade for goods in other regions. a small pile of flint wouldn't be noticed, I have found mounds of flint in overhangs where lookouts could sit and watch the valley guarding regular campsites with good water. you look like you have some red fling from the east there and softer grey fling from your area. Flint was traded from Canada to Mexico and East to west. None of those look like Clovis or that age. Could have been some old cowpoke trying his hand at flint napping on a trail drive
I have no idea but very interesting video. Have you ever found dinosaur footprints? I really enjoyed this. As you were jumping down in the bucket I thought about injuries ... please make a video about how many times you have been seriously injured on the ranch.
Waiting for A HORSEMAN.
It may be a midden?? Things that are worked on one side may be scrapers.
Wow I love those I collect rocks and I would love to find something like that you know those rocks have been moved around every time the ground is touched so no telling where they came from
Cool video, but did you find Max's Sheds yet?
Those points look a little large for arrows, maybe spears. So make up a couple spears and get i an elevated blind and bait up a bunch of hogs then throw a spear down into them.
For some reason I think I've seen some of your collection of arrow heads but I would like to see your whole collection sometime
I have no idea but great video
Jason they look like they may have been knives you know Indians made knives similar to their arrowheads. But to wear they could hold onto them to scrape and cut very interesting though I wish that I was able to come out there and look around beautiful country out there. 👍🤠
The first one is a spear point
Quartz was traded..... Brought down from the north
Well they could be used as skinners and cutters. Im not sure.
I don’t know how you come up with a cooler video each week!! Awesome 😎 I am voting for an Indian stash 👍🏻 Get a university out there ASAP 😂
Have you had people with metal detectors go thru there for cartridges from the ~1844-46 war?
I think maybe, you have found a bison killing and butchering area. I grew up on ranches in Real and Edwards county Tx, my father hunted arrowhead all the time. I have seen a few spots like that, no burned rocks or mounds, but you find spear points and arrowhead in a small area.
scout spears?
Best metal detector..... There are other artifacts
Your camp isn't going to be up there on what you called the high point. Ita gonna be down there near creek bottom level. Look for a slightly elevated area down there. The camp probably isn't too awful far from where they pushed the dirt from, for you to be finding pieces, but with that amount of dirt you probably ly should have found more, u less it's just a really slow camp
ancient tool kit
Maybe they were hunting and the arrow broke
How far is that from the water? Hard to tell in the video. The terrain also looks a little too sloped for it to be a camp. I would rather sleep on flat ground than sloped and I’m sure it’s the same for them. I’m by no means an expert but my dad has a huge collection and always said a flat, elevated area that is within 100 yards of water is key for camps. Looking forward to following along on this
Maybe its the "kitchen" where they used bigger points to cut up the meat.
Love hunting arrowheads in northern AZ when we were out there. We’re the camps there Comanche??
Probably a spear,, broke when hunting buffalo,, an discarded ?? That's why they are large wide an next to river,,
I know just the person to send this to.
Could be where all the shards and defective points were dumped outside of the campsite
What are the chances that when moving the topsoil they uncovered a trash pit? Could they be heads that broke before they were completed and discarded in a hole?
2 trains of thought come to mind. #1 those big ones could hide scrapers and were made way to the north and west and traded to people in your area. #2 Noah's flood carried them from way north from where they were made and used
Would u / have u metal detect the area?
Tell us about what you know?
Those points are post ice age, you they are “worth” something. They would walk up to 30 miles from there to find chert stones and flint.
Mr. J.A. Is there any way you could have your wife Bonnie include a line of scripture at the closing of your videos to sustain us?
You are either in a native camp or prehistoric camp
Stuff like 'horse sense' Stuff you know, Bra.
Do you know the history of which indian tribes were in the area or maybe an archeological museum can help