Extreme VARIETY of Native American Artifacts Found While Arrowhead Hunting!

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[00:00:00]Hey, what's up everybody? I'm Justin with Cro Outdoor Productions. In this video right here, you're going to see the struggles that we have uh just trying to find artifacts and it was a struggle. We done everything from sifting, creek walking, walking on plowed ground that that was dry. We finally got some rain, but it was just so little. It's been so dry here. We ain't had an inch of rain in over a month. But, um in the future, we we might just have to figure out a way to make it rain ourselves. But stay tuned.

[00:00:31]Watch this. We appreciate you and God bless.

[00:00:35]All right, little man. Me and him's out here on the river. He said he's got two fossils.

[00:00:39]>> It's a little clam, I think.

[00:00:41]>> I don't know what that is.

[00:00:43]>> Looks like a clam to me by the paddle.

[00:00:45]>> Hold on. Quit moving.

[00:00:51]I have no idea, buddy.

[00:00:55]And then, >> okay, >> this one right here.

[00:01:01]>> Hold on.

[00:01:01]>> Got a shell design right there.

[00:01:04]>> Yeah, >> it's probably a shell died right there.

[00:01:07]>> Let me see here. Take this little one back.

[00:01:17]Yep.

[00:01:19]You sure did, buddy.

[00:01:23]Let's keep looking though.

[00:01:26]Okay.

[00:01:27]>> Okay.

[00:01:33]>> Got a big jawbone here on the Arkansas River. So, it's very possible that it could be bison, but it's not.

[00:01:44]Well, let's get Sorry about the wind. It's just it's hard to get out on the river.

[00:02:01]There not be a bunch of wind.

[00:02:18]I don't know. I'm going to take it with me, though. It's cool.

[00:02:23]It's been here a while.

[00:02:25]Let's keep looking, though.

[00:02:29]I got this thing cleaned up better.

[00:02:33]And it is black on both sides, so it's been here a long time, so it could be bison. I'll compare it whenever I get home to known cattle uh jawbones and kind of see how it compares. But it's cool.

[00:02:47]I'm grateful for it.

[00:02:53]We literally picked the worst day in Oklahoma to be out here on the river.

[00:02:58]There's a a sandstorm blowing around out here.

[00:03:07]We had a good time though.

[00:03:11]that river hunting in that kind of wind.

[00:03:15]No bueno. So, we decided to come on back to the campsite, maybe do a little sifting. Boy's down there in the creek right now looking around. He might find something. I don't know. But, we'll get back to you if we get something.

[00:03:33]First artifact on the first uh sifter broken. Definitely has a bifurcated base though.

[00:03:45]I don't know what that be.

[00:03:51]Keep looking though.

[00:03:58]Pottery.

[00:04:27]really really cooked on the inside.

[00:04:30]This is only about the seventh piece of pottery. See that scratching right there? I did that when I was sifting this. I was trying to bust the dirt off the claw and this was in it and that's what happened. But this is only about the sixth or seventh piece of pottery that we found. Maybe maybe a few more than that, but not very many. And they've all been just like that. About that same thickness.

[00:04:58]Sweet find.

[00:05:03]Found this flake.

[00:05:06]It's beautiful.

[00:05:08]It's not a, you know, it doesn't look like it was used for anything, but this right here, this is where the platform was. This right here, it's kind of bulged out. That's your bulb of percussion. And then you can see overshot here at the bottom. Trying to learn these flakes. Not so much for the campsite, but when you're in uh, you know, hunting on rivers and creeks and stuff like that, really need to know when you see a flake whether it's something that was worked or not. This right here is the proximal end and this is the distal end, I believe.

[00:05:44]But it's beautiful material.

[00:05:51]What are you doing under there?

[00:05:53]>> Waiting for you to start sifting her.

[00:05:57]What do you think I've been doing under here? Bro, >> you're a knucklehead.

[00:06:03]>> I was cleaning this table off and I was just about to sweep everything off and I think I got a point, but it looks like it's broken.

[00:06:17]It's definitely a point.

[00:06:31]Oh, that's beautiful.

[00:06:33]Holy smokes, that material. I don't know what's going on with this thing. I guess maybe it's sheared, but it looks reworked.

[00:06:44]It is.

[00:06:49]Huh.

[00:06:55]That's pretty stuff.

[00:06:58]I ain't never found no material like that. At least in a, you know, out of a point. I've seen stuff like that out here. The debit.

[00:07:09]Man, that's weird.

[00:07:20]See, it almost looked like it was sheared off, but it's been flaked like microlaked across this edge again.

[00:07:34]I don't know.

[00:07:36]No idea what that would have been either. The base is snapped.

[00:07:40]That's beautiful material though, and I'm grateful to have it.

[00:07:45]Shoot. Yeah.

[00:07:49]Tell me if you've ever seen anything like that.

[00:07:56]I either got a big core or a I don't know, some kind of big tool. We'll look at that in a second. I'll clean it up for you.

[00:08:06]It's just debit. Seen this piece had a funny shape.

[00:08:12]Think it's just going to be a flake, though.

[00:08:18]Yep. Just a heat treated flake debit.

[00:08:24]All right, let's clean this up real quick.

[00:08:45]I don't know. That's been chipped all the way around. This is silt stone. We find a lot of this, as you've probably seen.

[00:08:54]I don't know.

[00:08:56]I'd be guessing if I said what it was.

[00:09:00]It looked like it had a stem there, maybe. So, it could have been a, you know, a big cultivator blade, but I can't say for sure.

[00:09:10]We'll keep looking though. Maybe we'll find something.

[00:09:18]Broken sanding stone, grinding stone, something. But look at them scratch marks.

[00:09:24]So, I'd say, you know, maybe an anvil table top.

[00:09:35]Pretty cool. We ain't done though. We're going to find something.

[00:09:41]>> You said you got to kill it.

[00:09:42]>> I I think we got a killer right here.

[00:09:44]I'm going to let you do the pull, buddy, to get down to it.

[00:09:49]>> Yep. Go ahead.

[00:09:52]Just pick it up and it's >> not a triangle.

[00:09:57]>> Yay. It's not a triangle. I thought it was. Oh yeah.

[00:10:02]>> Shoot. Yeah.

[00:10:06]>> Thank you, Jesus. Man, here. Let me see.

[00:10:09]>> My hands are dirty.

[00:10:12]>> We'll take this down to the creek. Let's go clean it off real quick.

[00:10:17]>> We'll bring us a bucket of water up, too.

[00:10:47]That's a smoker.

[00:10:50]I like it. This here is a reed re e d.

[00:10:57]These are 500 to 1500 years old. Found in eastern Oklahoma, western Arkansas, probably up into Missouri as well.

[00:11:10]Really nice. This would be a true bow and arrow point. That distance right there between them notches, that tells you exactly everything you need to know.

[00:11:19]That uh that's about a quarter inch, maybe 5/16 of an inch across there.

[00:11:30]Very nice. Only found maybe two of these down here at this end of the site.

[00:11:42]Me and the little man doing a little bit of creek walking, waiting for more rain to come. First piece of decent size debitrage that I found. But we'll get back to you if we find something else.

[00:11:56]Hopefully we will.

[00:12:00]What do you got, dude?

[00:12:01]>> Got two crawfish.

[00:12:04]>> Shoot you. Yeah.

[00:12:06]>> They're just now kind of coming out, ain't they?

[00:12:08]>> Yeah.

[00:12:13]So small.

[00:12:16]>> See if you can get down there, buddy.

[00:12:27]>> Looks fairly old, don't it?

[00:12:28]>> Oh, yeah. Looks like that one we found in the creek over.

[00:12:31]>> Come on.

[00:12:32]>> At our place.

[00:12:40]It's like the bottle we found at our place. See, it has the same.

[00:12:43]>> Oh, yeah. Like a >> Royal Crown.

[00:12:45]>> RC Cola.

[00:12:46]>> Yeah.

[00:12:50]>> Here. Hold that for a second.

[00:12:59]>> 60 67.

[00:13:02]Good job, dude. Way to spot it.

[00:13:07]It's a soft.

[00:13:08]>> Let me get down there to it. There's his head right there.

[00:13:13]>> Use the stick to rub behind it.

[00:13:17]>> Are you sure it's a soft shell? Because it's not even there.

[00:13:20]>> Yeah, it's there.

[00:13:22]>> I feel it.

[00:13:24]>> Go deeper.

[00:13:25]>> What do you mean? It's right here.

[00:13:27]>> Okay, we'll lift it up out of there.

[00:13:32]>> See? Okay, there it goes.

[00:13:33]>> There he goes.

[00:13:34]>> There he goes.

[00:13:36]Them things are cool, ain't they?

[00:13:37]>> Yeah, they're fast.

[00:13:38]>> Yeah.

[00:13:41]>> Well, I also saw >> what Daddy's doing is he's busting the dam, the beaver dam.

[00:13:56]>> We got it damn busted out. It'll drop maybe a foot on the other side anyways.

[00:14:02]So, that'll really help. This is one of the creeks that we like to arrowhead hunt in and it's been so damned up.

[00:14:08]There's like six dams in maybe 200 yards of creek. It's crazy. But we're going to at least get it drained where we could check and then I'm sure the beavers will be back tonight killing stop everything back up. But you going to have fun?

[00:14:24]>> All right, let's go have some fun, buddy.

[00:14:41]Everything's tough right now. We ain't got enough rain, so we decided to go creek walking. That's a big stem to point. That thing was huge.

[00:14:52]Probably a knife blade if I was to guess, but we don't know.

[00:14:57]Thankful to have it, though.

[00:15:05]Little man just picked this one up.

[00:15:16]Looks like a broke Gary be the stem right there.

[00:15:25]Look, it would have been a decent one.

[00:15:27]Bit of a stack on it there.

[00:15:30]I don't know. Maybe we'll find something else.

[00:16:02]It has some beautiful flaking.

[00:16:14]This looks worked cuz it is. It's a broken tip.

[00:16:26]Dang it.

[00:16:45]Broken drill.

[00:16:48]Man, that thing was beautiful material.

[00:16:53]broken both ends.

[00:17:01]Just picked this up.

[00:17:03]This has got to be one of the prettiest thumb scrapers I've found as far as material goes.

[00:17:09]You can see the working all the way around it, though.

[00:17:14]I thought it was just going to be unif, but it's not.

[00:17:21]It's a pretty piece.

[00:17:24]Glad I found it.

[00:17:27]Definitely heat treated material. That's why it's got that red color.

[00:17:37]This is an odd one.

[00:17:40]Little bitty hard stone.

[00:17:45]No idea what they could have used it for. I'd guess I mean, if I was guessing, maybe just boiling rocks.

[00:17:53]But, you know, if you was dropping rocks, boiling cooking stones into a pot, wouldn't you rather it be a hard stone like that rather than a a sandstone with all the grit and stuff like that? That's just I mean, that's just me thinking out loud. I don't know. Tell me what you think.

[00:18:20]So, this looks like just a flake, but Mark with Field Archaeology 101, he's been speaking on these. And so, here's the overshot end of it. And this would normally come off to a squared end on both sides, but see, it's broken here.

[00:18:40]And it has been broken there, but you can see the retouch on that edge right there. And there's retouch where it's been worked right there as well on that end.

[00:18:53]And um I'm guessing these would be, you know, scrapers or something like that.

[00:18:58]But they used these flakes as tools. And these overshot ones. These are really, really strong. So that's why they believe uh they were used. But if if you want to know more about just being able to look at your your debotage and stuff and kind of have a good analysis of it and kind of have a better understanding of it, then go over to Mark with Field Archaeology 101 and check him out and you'll learn all kinds of cool stuff.

[00:19:24]Trust me. But that's a classic example of what he's been talking about with this overshot flakes.

[00:19:46]Man, that's pretty.

[00:19:55]I think I got a hammer stone here.

[00:20:00]Sure enough, best way to describe these is many, many times the cortex will be all on the back or however it feels good in your hand.

[00:20:22]See, this is all cortex. Then it'll be busted up on the ends where it's been used as a hammer stone.

[00:20:30]That is an artifact and I'll keep it.

[00:20:42]Thought this was just a flake, but I'm pretty sure it's worked through there. So, I'm going to clean it up and show it to you.

[00:20:57]Definitely a unifice.

[00:21:06]Just goes to show they utilize this stuff, too.

[00:21:12]Nice little tool.

[00:21:16]Pretty cool.

[00:21:21]Maybe what's left of a core. Or it could have been a scraper.

[00:21:35]Kind of looks like it might be a turtle back.

[00:21:37]>> Yeah, >> but it could just be a core. Go ahead, buddy.

[00:21:44]No, that's definitely a turtle back.

[00:21:52]or hand chopper or something.

[00:21:55]It's been worked all the way around that thing. That's That's pretty cool, actually. I didn't expect to find anything.

[00:22:17]Could be a hand scraper. I don't know.

[00:22:21]It's nice though.

[00:22:26]I'll take it.

[00:22:31]Tell me in the comments though if you think that's just a core or a hand scraper.

[00:22:39]I don't know what this is. I seen that red and kind of flipped it out. It's obviously got a lot of iron in it. It comes off on your finger. I'm sure they used that for something. When I flipped it over, that was there. And that is a piece of pottery.

[00:22:55]So, that makes two pieces that I found lately.

[00:23:02]I'll take it down here and clean it up real quick.

[00:23:08]Haven't made it down there yet, but because I seen this nice, beautiful tip.

[00:23:16]I'll clean them both up.

[00:23:21]That material on that point, my goodness, that would have been beautiful.

[00:23:28]Sometimes I see them, I think that's almost intentional.

[00:23:35]Nice pottery, too.

[00:23:41]Another killer tip. My goodness.

[00:23:56]I know I said I don't find pottery very often. That makes three pieces for this video.

[00:24:02]That thing is huge. That's the biggest piece of pottery I've ever found.

[00:24:08]It's very, very thick.

[00:24:11]That's like uh 5/8 of an inch right there at my thumb. I'll clean it up so we can look at it. I think it's going to look like most of them. Black on I know it's black on the inside and brown on the outside, but maybe we can see some of the tempering. Let's look.

[00:24:30]Just being a boy.

[00:24:33]Probably looking for craw dads or tadpoles.

[00:24:38]>> I got crawfish. You caught some crawfish. See what I tell you. Let's take a gander at this.

[00:25:05]Man, that thing's huge.

[00:25:11]We've never found any uh really thin pottery just this big stuff.

[00:25:19]That's a nice shirt there.

[00:25:25]What do you think about that boy?

[00:25:26]>> Looks good.

[00:25:28]>> Pretty >> pretty cool, huh?

[00:25:30]>> Thick.

[00:25:32]You can see they used look to me it looks like flint as part of the recipe.

[00:25:43]See that sticking out?

[00:25:46]It's probably sand or some gravel. Uh real fine sand that's down in this creek.

[00:25:56]Nice.

[00:26:01]He's caught quite a few of them.

[00:26:04]Got him a little pond down there. He's been putting them in. You having fun?

[00:26:10]>> Yeah.

[00:26:39]and that thing's polished smooth right through there and right through here.

[00:26:47]Kind of an odd piece. And then this one's the same way.

[00:26:53]Right through here.

[00:26:55]And then on this other side, I'm gonna take them down to the creek and clean them up. But it's kind of odd that they came up right here together.

[00:27:05]So, I'm going, you know, I would think that they're probably a tool set. I don't know what these things are used for. I'm guessing sanding blocks, you know, I'm guessing, but they're not natural and they shouldn't be here. Always always consider the context of where you're finding what you're finding. I'll go clean them up real quick and we'll look at them.

[00:27:33]You know, some people don't necessarily like that, you know, we're not just showing arrowheads or, you know, just the stuff that they would consider the good stuff, but this all is part of it.

[00:27:47]It tells a story. And that's kind of what we're doing here on this channel is we're documenting every single thing that we find on this campsite that is out of place. You know, it's a it's an interesting thing that these rocks like this were just as important to them as as points and stuff. And we all like the points. That's the coolest part. And that's usually the end to the video, you know. But this stuff that's all in between, it all mattered to these people, you know. It it was part of their everyday life as well. And that's why we show what we show. I hope y'all enjoy it.

[00:28:42]Man, that thing has been polished up big time on them them ends like that.

[00:29:01]same way.

[00:29:07]Look how flat that is down that plane.

[00:29:15]I don't know. Like I said, it's odd to find them right there together. And they're not natural anyways. It's not something that matter of fact, no stone is natural uh occurring right there on our campsite except for when you get down to the the shell layer, which is below the clay layer, and we don't ever go that deep.

[00:29:36]So, it's kind of odd. Tell me what you think. You think they was used together?

[00:29:44]They're not the same thickness as far as width goes. So, it's not like this piece broke off that one. I don't know.

[00:29:56]I walked right by this earlier.

[00:30:06]That thing's worked.

[00:30:16]That's how it would have went right there. This big chunk is missing.

[00:30:23]Pretty cool piece. Very, very thin.

[00:30:30]Nice.

[00:30:35]That's all I can see right there. I already flipped this thing over.

[00:30:40]That would have been a smoker, Gary.

[00:30:44]Smoker, I tell you. That thing's tater chip thin, man.

[00:30:59]Wouldn't be a Crow Outdoor Productions video without a some sort of a dirt working tool.

[00:31:16]Would have been a nice one.

[00:31:24]I don't know what this is or if it's anything, but it looks cool.

[00:31:38]I'm guessing that'd be some kind of scraper tool.

[00:31:48]I don't know.

[00:31:51]Usually these things like this, they call them choppers, uh, in some of the Oklahoma manuals for artifacts. They're always really, really crude. It is an artifact, though, and I've kept every single one that I found.

[00:32:04]Pretty cool.

[00:32:08]I'm just going to throw this out there.

[00:32:10]I've said it before and I'll say it again. I am no professional archaeologist. I wouldn't even call myself an amateur archaeologist. I'm learning every single thing about these artifacts as I go. So, unless it's something that I'm already aware of, I've already found, then there's a good chance I don't know anything about it.

[00:32:28]So, if you do, you know, we really really appreciate those kind of comments where you're letting us know, hey, they they probably use this for that or whatever. And a lot of it, I know, is just guessing. A lot of us, you know, we we just really don't know. But I just want to throw that out there. I'm no expert. I don't claim to be an expert.

[00:32:48]So, if you know something though, we appreciate it.

[00:32:53]Just probed this base out.

[00:32:57]Would have been nice. That's really, really cool material. I don't find a lot of it. Not much sunlight today, but pretty cool.

[00:33:12]Feels big.

[00:33:23]Come on. Hope it ain't broken.

[00:33:34]Man, that is a nice mano.

[00:33:37]It's got facets rubbed there. there.

[00:33:42]Let's go clean it up real quick.

[00:34:19]That's different material there.

[00:34:22]It's been pecked quite a bit right there on the end.

[00:34:30]I think I found one other that was made out of material like this. Now, it is sandstone, but it's different different than some of the other one uh types of sandstone that we have here.

[00:34:41]Well, it's been used, so I'm grateful to have that thing. Thank you, Lord.

[00:34:51]Nice.