Yes! I have a friend who introduced me to arrowhead digging. I sent him a photo of stone tools I found along with a scraper in the mix. He said, “you’ve got one scraper, the rest are interesting rock formations”…I was dumbfounded. This guy has collected arrowheads for years but had no knowledge about the other stuff. I don’t understand how you can have a love for arrowheads but not the tools used to make them, create petroglyphs, hunt, fish, chop, carve, etc… Yes, arrowheads are pretty cool and always a rush of excitement to find them, but to me, the tools have so much more to tell and interpret.

@@stephissteph1359 You said it perfectly! Keep on the hunt and good luck on your digs. There's always something to be found one just needs to know what to look for!

Found many on my son's land. Antler pieces everywhere

I completely agree, these tools were an everymans essential in those days!

Well said. Im a terrible guitar teacher but i love playing guitar.

Thank you, I was thinking same thing basically, and that next one she said is natural "only' I'd have to view it in person to say she is wrong., however I believe that stone has had some polishing potential.

Hard to tell w/o seeing it. I have a fairly extensive collection of artifacts, plus 2 peach baskets full of interesting rocks and stones with grooves cut in them. Mostly by tractors I would imagine!!!

@@thomasfoss9963 Thank you. The tractor part never crossed my mind. You may be right.

There are many self-snnointed experts out there who have little imagination. Most of their rantings are little more than conjecture. Your interpretations are as valid as theirs. 👍

I’m a expert. Only stones that I find are legitimate ancient artifacts/tools. So from now on all remotely possible artifacts must be certified by myself. Hey I have a degree in the discovery channel spent 20+ years there. Ahhh ok. Couldn’t resist. Sorry

mate , literally none of the stones you have shown on your channel have had any human modification .. i am well aware of pecking and grinding , not just flaked stone tools . your stones are just stones

I’ve seen some of your videos and think many of your items are just curious shaped rocks.

Since you are asking about North America as a whole, the following website is good and allows you to narrow your search by region: www.projectilepoints.net/ For other types of tools, the most detailed study is the one done on Minnesota tools. The points and raw materials are drawn from Minnesota, but the rest of the tools and discussions are pretty typical across North America, and there is a good discussion of fakes and other misleading artifacts. The two pdf files are available to download. Volume 1: mn.gov/admin/assets/stone-tools-of-minnesota-part1_tcm36-247478.pdf Volume 2 (more specific to Minnesota): mn.gov/admin/assets/stone-tools-of-minnesota-part2_tcm36-247479.pdf

Many of the pieces I have found that were worked, have been found in or near the beach. Possibly thousands of years of being washed and worn down. Removing most signs of pecking and grinding and napping.

@@216trixie I have a point i traded for from NJ that was found on the beach. Super polished but flake scars are still visible. I was mainly talking about folks who post the obvious non artifacts.

I know a guy who thinks he’s found thousands of artifacts just this summer. He took them to an archaeological dig going on near us and the guys all got their phones out and took pictures of it and told him they had never seen artifacts like that. One was a hammer shaped piece of limestone- with a limestone handle on it lol. He still thinks they don’t recognize his artifacts because they’re not from around here.

I didn’t know there was a name for these people, but he’s always trying to show me how it fits in his hand.

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Not sure what you mean by H shaped, although the first thing that comes to mind would be a stone that was notched to use as a weight for a fishing net.

@@jerrybruckhart9134 I am thinking it would have been used as a handline for fishing = the H shaped soapstone.

@@srl2634 Maybe, but I still lean toward the net weight because wood would be lighter for some sort of hand line.

@@jerrybruckhart9134 soap stone is what we collected not wood. , The Bakersfield area was a swamp is area I'm talking about, old Yokut tribe .

@@srl2634 Yes, I am familiar with soap stone, what I meant was I suspect they would have used a piece of wood as opposed to soap stone for a hand line due to the weight difference. Maybe we have two different thoughts on what you mean as a hand line?

Masters of nature? Hardly.

I would blame teachers🤔 first in regards to bad education > as we see very well in these days, they don't want to educate, only to Indoctrinate, students with their beliefs, fears, morals, or lack there of, and political Idology.

@@joannem3568 I would blame funding, one teacher can only do so much with a class of 20 or 30. Politics at a local level might be the culprit. But the anti science sentiment is the source.

@@perfectperson214 I call BS. Schools get so much $$$$money it's makes all us taxpayers sick. It's not funding. It's bad teachers , as we have seen. Most Recently with Activist teachers, who want communism, not Freedom So, change Our Own mind. Not changing mine.

@@perfectperson214 it's not lack of funding that's the problem, it's people like you

@@joannem3568 Schools get so much money?? 🤣 😂🤣

@@gone235 thank you!!! I'm embarrassed to say I don't know nothing about the Wikipedia. What do I type in? Thanks again

@@gone235 why would it delete your suggestion?? Ugghhh sorry these computers just aren't my generation! KZfaq is about as far as I go haha! I just don't have the time to set and learn them! I'd rather be outside😁

@@gone235 I will try it because I have found some really cool stuff. I live on 2500 acres that has been in my family for generations hundreds of years back. The trail of tears went through here and some of them settled here which where my ancestors as I am part Cherokee. Way way back on the land is a huge artesian well that shoots out of the ground 24/7 about six feet high. It is the mouth of all these creeks and rivers through here. Apparently that well was quite a hang out spot for Indians and animals, I can walk there any day and find a plethora of arrow heads Indian tools and all kinds of different things from the past. Of chores it's over a five mile hike through the woods but that's what has kept anyone else from finding it.😉 I have hundreds if not thousands of pieces. This may sound strange but to be honest it's like they find me instead of me finding them. I have several 3 D carvings, they look similar to a tiny toy very detailed only they are solid rock. I have never seen no blog but I have heard of them. But I am interested in kens blog if you can tell me how to find it.

@@gone235 p.s. one time over ten years ago I found where some one had dropped their bird point pouch. Well that's what I figured anyway. The pouch was gone but there was a pile of tiny perfect bird points all together. I've also found some things I'm pretty sure was used by a medicine man. Again a lot of my theory's come from my imagination. When I find a cool piece I will hold it in my hands and imagine what they could have used it for. I literally have my tools separated into a left handed pile and a right handed pile. When you have a lot of the same tools it's easy to figure out. Of chores just like today there are more right handed pieces than lefty's 😊I am very careful who I tell about my treasures. But the ones I can't bring home are the coolest. I'm talking about the carvings in the huge cave back about two miles behind that well. That's something I keep to myself cuz if the public knew they would raid it and destroy it. For some reason I trust you though and I would show you if I could.

@@gone235 sorry for all these comments but one more thing: how did they mark their graves? Pretty sure I've found some grave mounds but I don't wanna dig them out of respect. Btw no humans have touched these places besides me in no telling how many decades. It's like it is frozen in time. I also do all my hiking barefoot. You would be surprised what you can feel under the ground with your feet! Especially in the creek. Here in Missouri our water is clear even if it's over your head you can see the bottom. Also, I wanted to Mention some of the carvings tell a story and are obvious what they mean. Some of them I know mean something I just don't know what. Apparently the sun was very important to them. Here in Missouri we have four seasons and I know even in my warm house by the time winter is over I am so ready for summer so I can only imagine how pitiful it was for them. Can you believe one carving that " tells a story" is of Bigfoot riding a dinosaur pulling a huge rock? Lol maybe that was joke they carved I don't know but it's as plain as day. He is riding one of those dinosaurs that look kind of like a rhino just like it was a horse and pulling that huge rock like a skidder pulls a log. Sounds ridiculous but it is there on that cave wall. Now that I'm pushing 50 I do have a fear all these places I've found will die with me, but again I'm afraid of what will happen if the wrong people find out. What do you think I should do? My children are grown now and unfortunately teaching them how to find food in the woods like mushrooms and edible plants was fun when they were little but they've grown out of it. They take for granted the things they have been taught by me like it's common sense knowledge but it's not! Many people don't even know what a morel mushroom is and I have spots where thousands grow every year. And my daughter took the first guy she thought she was in love with to one of my honey holes with out my permission and after they broke up he tried sneaking down to it and I had to run him off. Luckily I live several miles down a dead end gravel road so I know if anyone is on the road that shouldn't be. I do want to share these places I've found but I want it to be respected and I just can't trust no body to do that. If I ever went to any of my secret spots and saw a soda can or a cigarette butt I would absolutely see red. It's kinda like I feel like I found this stuff to protect it. Sorry for the rant. Honestly, What would you do?

Ahahahahaaha this comment section is out of control. Nothing brings loonies out of the woodwork like artifacts.

No. I have found many artifacts in my yard that were neither tools nor weapons. They're effigies. 🗿

Science. It’s a thing. Do your research.

I agree and disagree, in different regions of the country there are big differences in stone. There are places where you find many ground projectile points, which can baffle most including some archaeologists and then there are areas where you only find flaked projectile points and those are very obvious to be man-made. And if you travel further south into Mesoamericana, the locals down there will have trouble believing these North American artifacts are even artifacts because the artifacts in Mesoamerica are a hundred times more elaborate, artistic, and of much higher skill- I know because there are dozens of tools and effigy's in perfect museum quality at my grandparents house. I must tell you the "thumb groove and fits hand perfectly is legit". You need be able to transport yourself physically, mentally, spiritually, and emotionally many years and generations back to truly be able to understand the humans who made these tools and effigys. And let me tell you 4-6 years of institutionalized academic state curriculum is not enough to understand what humans did 30,000 years ago. So if you're not able to transport yourself physically, mentally, spiritually and emotionally you will not be able to fully understand past human life. I appreciate your passion for this, although you need to humble down a bit and stop calling people pathetic who probably know less than you Madison. And maybe then you may be allowed to be fortunate enough to truly understand all of ancestors lives.

@@alejandroquiros6395 brilliant! I totally agree! Also not just the thumb groves and perfect fit in the hand, I can also tell if it was used by a left hander or right hander. It seems like I can also tell if it was made by an experienced person or a young person just learning. I can also tell if it was a piece well used or made specifically for ceremonial use only. Without transporting myself mentally as you said, I would only see a rock. Some people naturally have the gift and others do but don't know how to use it. And it seems if a person is close minded you can not open their mind for them. I think it's something each person has to learn on their own. You and I are on the same page though.

@@alejandroquiros6395 ground projectile points do not "baffle" anybody ! do you really think there is some sort of mass ignorance or disregard for ground stone tools ? i think you should do some research .. the thumb groove is a lie i am sorry

A lot of the effigy people are meth addicts. If you look at their videos they make 7 every day for 3 months then get distracted by something else useless then it's onto the next tweaker activity and they forget about making artifact videos.

If it's not a tool-it's just a rock! So many morons

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Finally the religious nuts have weighed in.