True Arrowheads

[NCHillbilly]

Wonder why they were still using them?

To skewer Spaniards.
I don't know? Maybe they work better on bigger game than an arrow?

 

[GLS]

Size alone can fool some into thinking "arrowhead" . For instance this side notched beveled Bolen is Early Archaic and is 8500-9500 years old well outside the period of bows and arrows. For scale are .410 turkey loads. I found it above and adjacent to the Ohoopee flood plain while hunting turkeys in 2022. Probably an atlatl dart head... Gil

 

[Duff]

Size alone can fool some into thinking "arrowhead" . For instance this side notched beveled Bolen is Early Archaic and is 8500-9500 years old well outside the period of bows and arrows. For scale are .410 turkey loads. I found it above and adjacent to the Ohoopee flood plain while hunting turkeys in 2022. Probably an atlatl dart head... Gil

Ooooh wee! Thats a beauty of a point!

 

[westcobbdog]

Found these artifacts in a recent clear cut
rather close together.

 

[Nicodemus]

Found these artifacts in a recent clear cut
View attachment 1242484rather close together.

That base on the bottom left looks real interesting.

 

[westcobbdog]

That base on the bottom left looks real interesting.

Nic is the small point second row second from left anything?

 

[Nicodemus]

Nic is the small point second row second from left anything?

It`s shaped similar to a point but I cant tell for sure if it is or just a particularly shaped flake.

 

[NCHillbilly]

That base on the bottom left looks real interesting.

Looks like the base of a cowhead Hardaway.

 

[Redbow]

When I was a boy I made self bows and used river cane for my arrows. I never put an arrowhead on the arrows, just fletched them with chicken feathers and sharpened them on the end. We had huge red oak trees in our yard on the farm. Those old oaks were tough but at times I would get a river cane arrow to stick into the oak trees and it was hard to pull out. I often wondered if the Indians used them on other human beings I still have some river cane arrows today just sharpened on the end, they will hurt you.

 

[Nicodemus]

When I was a boy I made self bows and used river cane for my arrows. I never put an arrowhead on the arrows, just fletched them with chicken feathers and sharpened them on the end. We had huge red oak trees in our yard on the farm. Those old oaks were tough but at times I would get a river cane arrow to stick into the oak trees and it was hard to pull out. I often wondered if the Indians used them on other human beings I still have some river cane arrows today just sharpened on the end, they will hurt you.

The Calusa and Timocuans used rivercane arrows with no points added in their battles with the Spanish Conquistadors. They splintered and penetrated chain mail whereas the chert and coral points didn`t do so well.

 

[longrangedog]

Charles Hudson wrote the definitive book on Hernando DeSoto's travels in southwest north America. Published by the University of Georgia press, it is compiled from journals kept by five members of Desoto's expedition. Lots of detail about the natives in 1540. The Desoto expedition marked the end of the Mississippian Period and the beginning of European contact.

Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms​