A different kind of hunting
09-25-2008 | 10:22 PM
#21
Typical Buck
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From: MO
RE: A different kind of hunting
If you're going to show some professor your finds, wait until after hunting season. You may have discovered an ancient tribe. Next thing you know, the state of IL will sieze you land for an archeological dig. That'll screw up your food plots. 
09-25-2008 | 10:49 PM
#22
Nontypical Buck
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From: Virginia
RE: A different kind of hunting
Im deffinatley no expert, but it looks to me like you found some "Flint tools"
http://www.westernartifacts.com/flinttools.htm
Very cool John.
http://www.westernartifacts.com/flinttools.htm
Very cool John.
09-25-2008 | 11:19 PM
#24
Nontypical Buck
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From: Gleason, TN
RE: A different kind of hunting
Some of those look like atlatl heads (a little bigger than arrow heads and a little smaller than standard spear heads). The larger ones at the bottom look like butchering tools.
Great find! Those look beautiful!
Great find! Those look beautiful!
09-26-2008 | 04:40 AM
#25
Giant Nontypical
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From: Heaven is my home, temporarily residing in WNY :)
RE: A different kind of hunting
ORIGINAL: Doubled 150
If you're going to show some professor your finds, wait until after hunting season. You may have discovered an ancient tribe. Next thing you know, the state of IL will sieze you land for an archeological dig. That'll screw up your food plots.
If you're going to show some professor your finds, wait until after hunting season. You may have discovered an ancient tribe. Next thing you know, the state of IL will sieze you land for an archeological dig. That'll screw up your food plots.
09-26-2008 | 11:37 AM
#26
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From: Connecticut
RE: A different kind of hunting
ORIGINAL: jmbuckhunter
Here ya go shrewbeer, from Jersey County(West Central) IL. Near where the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers come together.
Here ya go shrewbeer, from Jersey County(West Central) IL. Near where the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers come together.
looks like some of the bottom ones are "blanks", ready to be shaped, and some are only half done.
No doubt about it, you have found someone's "tool box".
09-26-2008 | 12:24 PM
#27
Nontypical Buck
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From: Missouri
RE: A different kind of hunting
ORIGINAL: jmbuckhunter
Bloodcrick, (He is our resident rock expert) seems to think somebody has just roughed them to shape and stashed them. Then when he had more time he would go back and finish them. That's why some look pretty rough around the edges so to speak.
ORIGINAL: Matt / PA
HMMM.......how bout that.
Itwould be neat to see if someone with knowledge of stone tools could chime in and say what they really are.
HMMM.......how bout that.
Itwould be neat to see if someone with knowledge of stone tools could chime in and say what they really are.
09-26-2008 | 01:17 PM
#28
Nontypical Buck
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From: Chicago, IL
RE: A different kind of hunting
That really is cool, Just to think about what the land was like when those were a necessity amazes me. You never know what you can find if you look. A mother of an old friend of mine found a skull in The Dominican Republic with a bullet hole in the forehead and turned it into the government who dated it around 300 years old and said it was a pirate and then RETURNED IT to her a few months later in the states with all the paperwork saying it was hers legally! They had it put permantly into a big block of glass in there living room. Its insane!
Great collection again, You would have to think if you found that many in such a small area, it must have been some sort village. Keep up the hunt and keep us posted on anymore finds!!
Great collection again, You would have to think if you found that many in such a small area, it must have been some sort village. Keep up the hunt and keep us posted on anymore finds!!
