Early Archaic Extravaganza…. + a G10 ending! Arrowhead hunting Tennessee
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- čas přidán 8. 02. 2024
- This video is from the last 3 hunts and the season is just started. Kudos to anyone that can name the types found in the video. Also i have a 3 day hunt planned for next week that should produce some killer artifacts. God willing the river doesn’t rise after all this rain. 🙏🏻 Hope y’all enjoy the video and as always I look forward to reading and responding to your comments. To all the rock hounds out there good luck and I hope you don’t mind chasing my footprints haha take care CZcams and happy hunting.
At 70 yrs young living in so cal for 60t your finds are amazing. You'll are highly favored. Thanks for sharing..
It was my pleasure John. I’m just glad you enjoy the content. Are you a new subscriber or have you been tuned in for awhile? I only ask cause I’d encourage you to dig back through some of my older videos. Take care John and have a great weekend
Lord have mercy! That first Decatur was one of the thinnest bi-face points I think I've seen. Especially that base. It's amazing that it wasn't more broken than it was. Great find. The Big Sandy was a stunner too. And, of course, that final point made my hair stand on end! Dude, you guys find some BIG BOY treasure fo shore! Great video. Great camera work as well. Your videos are super crisp and clear.
Thank you so much my friend. I enjoying sharing these beautiful works of art/history almost as much if not more than finding them. We are honored by your comment and greatly appreciate the kind words. Take care brother and best of luck out there on your next adventure.
@@benallen7793 Thanks and best of luck to you guys too!
Damn son , you killed it . Man, those Decaturs are unreal . They are thin as a Pringle. I'd love to hear what you decide on the greenbrier looking piece . That's an oldie for sure . The turkey tail is stellar . I'm glad to see you out saving some good ones . Loved the content, Benny . Best wishes, brother .
Thank you brother man. That old piece I called a greenbrier is actually what’s called a harpeth river. Points 365 finds them more than me and definitely thinks so as well. Those Decaturs are nasty little buggers. One of these days damn it I’ll find a full piece. Hitting the river tomorrow for 3 days with a good friend from Ohio. Fingers crossed 🤞🏻 I can put him on a couple good ones. Take care and have a great night my friend
Atta boys!!! That site is going to produce some epic artifacts! 2 decaturs in one day is unreal and the turkeytail was gravy on top!! Congrats!!!!
Thank you brother. I’m dying to find a full Decatur now. I didn’t realize they were so small in size. I’ve got one I found last year that’s less than an inch. The last one found in the video was the biggest I’ve ever found. Me and Josey have found 5 all together and only 1 was whole from a construction site. What I’m most excited about tho is the harpeth river I found. First I’ve ever found and would love to see a more pristine example. Either way thanks for the comment brother and have a great day. ✌🏻
@@benallen7793 No doubt bro! Thats one for the list for sure.. I found that g-10 Decatur first thing when I started hunting…kind of assumed they were all that size…just wonder how the fractured base fits in???hafting??? Hard to say but keep it up!!!
Great finds! Love the turkey tail !
Thank you 🙏🏻 means a lot to me…. I love your channel and the knowledge you share with the community. Take care and have a great rest the day.
I don’t know if my heart could take it..
Wow!
Thank you Chris. Take care brother
Killer stuff as always. I gotta get out on the Cumberland river and find me a good one after this rain we are having. You've been one of my fav channels for years. You're always with the good info. Id say greenbrier on that questionable one. Regardless, its a smoker and I'd take a perfect adena point any day!
Thanks for the advice and we’re honored by your comment brother. Glad to hear you enjoy my ramblings haha Definitely hit the river when the water drops back off. Take care brother and have a good week. ✌🏻
Stunning finds. You never disappoint. Hope you feel better soon 😊
Thank you Jennifer and thank God I’m finally over the funk that’s been going around. With two young kids I swear I’ve been sick more in the past two years than in my entire life haha. Take care and have a great night.
@@benallen7793 they are Petri dishes 😁
Yeah buddy awesome hunt. Killer finds. Good on you.
Thank you buddy. Have a great night
Your definitely following some ancient footpaths, awesome round of recoveries, stay on em😎😎😎
Will do brother man. Take care ✌🏻
Dang brother, great finds. The early people had incredible workmanship.
They dang sure did brother. One of these days I’m going to get an intact Decatur. 🤞🏻Thanks for the comment
@benallen7793 good luck. They are sweet points. I may try to knap one myself
Killer finds,can't wait to see the next Hardin that comes out of there,God is good.
Thank you 🙏🏻 You and me both brother. I’ve been to that site 10 times at least this year so she’s definitely due. Most my best sites are late late winter sites so 🤞🏻 Take care and happy hunting my friend.
Dang boys when I first saw that red big sandy I could have sworn it was 5-5.5 inches long. Still a beautiful find. I know how it feels to try looking over your phone to inspect your find. It’s impossible to do looking through the Lenz. It’s easy for your filming hand to drift momentarily while you’re inspecting your find. I agree that’s definitely an old site. Kinda reminds me of the finds from around here! Dang what a beautiful point to wrap up the video! GL&HH 👍👍👍
Thank you brother. Josey Whales is the only man I know that consistently pulls 5” points out. Seems like every year now 😡 if you can’t tell I’m a touch jealous. 😂 I only have two that are 4 3/8” and 4 1/12”s. I’ve seen all your videos also and your definitely in a very old area. Where I think you need to focus is the areas that don’t put out anything but the oldies like you mentioned in last video or two ago. Where you said that sick pinetree and quad were found. In what you considered to be more of a dead zone. Trust me I know your just a good rain storm/ 1/4” of erosion away from an epic piece again! My best sites will produce nothing sometimes for 10-20 trips and sometimes not at all in a season. What drives me nuts tho is being on a heavily flaked out site in the bottoms. Sure I frequent areas like this when the oldies aren’t showing themselves.. Focus only on burnt rock and little sign areas. Take care my friend. Happy hunting and have a great weekend
@@benallen7793 looks like I’m gonna have to borrow ole Whales from you for a month or two. Those sites I found the good stuff on have a heavy layer of muck on top of the hard pan. They have for the last two years. Even In different areas it seems like the hard pan migrates from the bank that was good the year before to another one that was covered in mud previously! I’ve learned to just try to hunt the hard pan areas and move on to the next even if it’s 10 minutes away by boat. I have sites that look like the indians poured out buckets full of flint everywhere. I used to try and pick up the flint to discourage people from hunting my areas, now I’ve found the greatest deterrent is a bunch of my tracks that were left behind right after every rain. That’ll discourage others quicker than anything. Good luck out there!👍👍👍
Dude what a piece....in my dreams
Thank you brother man. When are we going diggin together lol
Those were some awesome points man. Well done.
Thanks brother man. A few heartbreakers but screams to the potential of the sites. The harpeth river was a first for me and I really hope to see a more intact/unused one in the future 🤞🏻 take care my friend and best of luck out there.
Dude!!! What a freaking Turkey Tail!!!😮🔥🔥 Heck of a sight with that monster tip sticking out. Love that early Archaic site though! Never know what’s gonna come up. Decatur, Sandy, Pine, LL….ect….Killer stuff Ben!!
Thank you brother. When can I see y’all back in action? The plows should be running hopefully here soon. Take care my friends and best of luck out there this year.
We should be getting back out any day now! It feels like it’s been forever. I can’t wait to start finding flint again.
Awesome turkey tail..
Thank you brother
Hey brother some killer saves that one at 6:18 I’m with ya on the green brier. The big sandy and turkey were 🔥congrats. Take care and good luck
Thanks you so much Tiller. Good eyes 👀 She’s definitely a greenbrier. I miss typed it slightly in the video calling it a kirk or pine. I’m glad you enjoyed the video and thank you so much for the comment. I’m praying for a toothy girl to come outta that overhang for ya. Take care bubba and have a wonderful day.
Extravaganza for sure man! Great early site. There’s got to be another Decatur laying around waiting to be scooped up. I was thinking Harpeth River as soon as that little shoulder appeared with the 4 sided bevel. Great finds man!
Thank you my friend. I had to reach out to points 355 to figure that harpeth river out afterwards. I called it right in the video tho thank god or people would have torn me up about it lol. First one I’ve ever found! Very excited to that possibly in nicer condition. Also I’ve found 4 or 5 broken Decaturs now and I’m dying to find one whole. Those tips are wide and so thin they seem to stand little chance to survive all that tumbling/rolling around. Either way I’m glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for the comment. Take care and happy hunting.
Killer finds for sure! When I saw the big broke tip LL came to my mind
Thank you brother. She’s right there in that family/cluster of points. Take care pimpin ✌🏻
@8:30 definitely the WOW factor comes into play!!! Killer area man!!! Hit me up if your pockets get to full! I'll definitely come help you out!!!😉
Let’s go Ben!! Thanks for sharing brother! It’s a good day when you upload. Keep grinding my friend. Good luck out there
Thank you brother. I’ve got a special one coming tomorrow. I’m glad you enjoyed the video, thanks for the comment, and have a great night ✌🏻
Incredible find!!!!!
Thank you my friend. Have a great day ☀️
Mr Ben.
You are on right on it, great chapter to the story.
Real Nice. 👍
Thanks Scott. Couldn’t have put it better. One more chapter down in hopefully a very long story. God willing of course. Take care bubba and have a wonderful day.
Whoa brother you killed it again on that site , great saves . Looking forward to your next video! Thanks for sharing
Thank you very much Warren. I’ve got a special rock talk video coming up here soon. Take care brother
A lot of great saves there! Congrats on the turkey tail for sure!
Thanks brother man. Take care and have a great day
Love those Early points and that TT is banging! Nice hunt Benny
Thank you my friend. That TT was special indeed. Glad you enjoyed the video. Take care ✌🏻
Those spots are precious. Protect them and share your knowledge of them to only those worthy.
💯 brother
Looks like you were rock picking on a several thousand yearlong "Bad Corner to be On". Lots of shots fired, you're picking up the bullet casings! Great stuff. Peace
Bad corner to be on indeed brother….. murderers’ row in fact and was probably statistically worse than the south side of Chicago 😂. As soon as the game they were hunting got into these choke points there was no coming back and god forbid you caught the rival clan creeping into these grounds. Either way thanks for the comment/laugh and have a great weekend my friend
My Gosh, Killers !!!!! And the Turkey Tail is 💥💥💥💥💥!!!!!!!
Thank you brother. That TT is exceptional. Cool part is the curved side of the blade feels ground at the highest point of the arch I’m guessing from heavy use.
@@benallen7793 Awesome for sure 👍
Nice Turkey tail. The triangular piece is a Cobbs trans paleo. Some in that time period would put a small shallow notch in all triangular points The Packard I found today has one only way I could tell it was a packard was because of the diamond cross section. Only type that has that others are oval or roundedflats. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you Z. That little triangular point definitely had an older look to it. Cobbs maybe or I was kinda thinking Hi Lo variant. As far as the Packard you found it also had an old look to it. I found a few greenbrier dalton type points that have a straight side and a small shallow notch in them. Seems to be a common technique to the transitional paleo peoples. Congratulations on the find and thank you for taking the time to comment on my video. ✌🏻
Awesome hunt boys
Thank you Doug. Sharing these finds is almost as fulfilling if not more so than finding the artifacts. Take care brother and have a great night
Always look forward to your videos! Hope to meet you sometime if you ever go to artifact shows.
Thanks Terry. I’ve been to 3 or 4 shows in the past but just stopped going because they always seem to fall on my free days to hunt. I wanted to go to the St. Joseph show again this year but missed it sadly. What shows are coming up? I’ll try and make the time. Do you have a table or just passionate about artifacts? One day I’d love to have a table at some of the shows. Only thing I don’t like is not having a finders/hunters only show. Most these guys can’t tell ya where the piece was found if it’s not written on a COA.
A nice point, but IMO you're a little generous with your grading.
Better than anything I ever found though. :)
Chief SMOKE! At it again. Killer finds Ben!
Thank you Gerry. Just working with what the good lord gave me haha. Have a great weekend my friend.
Right were you washed that decanter ,there was a Clovis base under the water you missed it.
Maybe so… who knows…. the areas I hunt are very old and I’ve found multiple broken Clovis points around them. If I missed it and you saw it through the video then Ive got to schedule a visit to the optometrist lol thanks for the comment and man I hope your wrong. I went back and looked but couldn’t identify what you saw. Take care and have a great day
Nice bro
Thank you my friend
Killers!
Thank you sir
My cousin found 1 made of dover flint about 6 inch long and paper thin he sold it for 50 bucks I think lol we was young and dumb lol
Oh my goodness!!! 50 bucks haha yeah that’s insane. I’ve got a book on all the best Middle Tennessee paleo points. It shows the point type and gives the back story to the pieces. There apparently was a dozer/road worker that was regrading a road/driveway for a friend and kick out a huge Cumberland. He sold it to the family reportedly for a single dollar. Haha Either way thanks for the comment and have a great day my friend.
Hey Ben, I was in TN recently and wanted to go stomp around in some creeks, but everyone was like "IT'S ILLEGAL to hunt for arrowheads in TN"! I keep hearing that from everyone yet there are so many youtube channels with people hunting TN !? What's the real story?
You make me commit the sins of jealousy and coveting.
You have it made
Thanks brother. Fortunate fools I love to say. Haha take care and have a great night
I thought all artifacts were the property of the public museum
Has anyone else ever found any quartz hatchet heads i found one made of milky quartz i have found so many different pieces where i lived growing up
Can’t say I have a quartz hatchet cause we don’t find many pieces of quartz in my area. Tho I have found flint hatches/adzes. That’s awesome brother… I only wish I could see so many of the collections out there. Arrowhead hunting is what I call a southern pastime. I grew up doing it with my mom and uncles as I’m sure many of us southerns did. Either way thanks for the comment and have a great rest the day
@@benallen7793 thank you for replying hopefully in about a week I'll be able to afford a new phone and I'll take some pictures of my collection I have a stone pickaxe that you would love I pulled them all out of the small creek that runs through my dad and uncles land just up the street from the meherring river in VA
Can you resharpen them t
In short yes you can… Better question tho is why would you? These artifacts in the video range from 3k-9k years old. To resharpen them is very possible but would ruin the artifacts authenticity imo. The damage to the pieces are usually from use wear all those years ago. Perfect artifacts are nice but very rare. I’m partial to the used up ones also because they tell one hell of a story in a sense. Like the scrapers in the video. They saw probably 10+ animals and were essential in cleaning the hide of the animal 🦬 Thanks for the comment Robert and have a great week.