Walking down a creek bottom isn't the easiest way to find an arrowhead but one look at my daughter Melody and you can tell it is a lot more fun than it sounds.
Have you ever seen a more enthusiastic face?
People often ask me where to find arrowheads. While you can find them almost anywhere, to make consistent finds you need to stick to the ancient water ways. River, old creeks, ancient lakes and springs were all used by the prehistoric people as campsites and village locations.
We had been shown some promising finds by a local resident but on our third trip we were still empty handed when Travis looked down and found this one!
Notice the trash line left by floodwaters right above the find.
At first we thought past floods had washed this point in with the sand and gravel packing it into the bank. After looking at the nearby tree washing out I realize that erosion had just uncovered it.
As you can see by the in-situ photos it took a sharp eye to see this one.
The proverbial needle in the hay stack!
Finally got to pick it up! You can see how it was only partially exposed.
Looks like an early Archaic Uvalde point. It's not damaged, looks like we found it just in time!
It really is made of some nice material.
This was Trav's first surface find, hopefully this is just the first of many!
We also found a little thin heartbroke Perdez arrowpoint nearby.
It was a beauty at one time, you can see through it, right out of the creek.
Sorry I couln't get an insitu photo of this one.
I wish to thank Melody & Travis Cobb for slogging through the muddy waters exploring with me this weekend. Don't tell anyone but I think they kind of liked it!
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