Posted by Or Eliason on January 30, 2004 at 18:17:12:
In the last month I found things I didnt found for 14 years.
At the beginning when I started to get serius in collecting flint tools I found only small and ugly blades, scrapers and cores around my house. After half a year I decided to expand my collecting locations and decided to go check a dirt "mine" about half an hour of walking from where I live, It turned out to be perfect, and I needed to hold my pants all the way back home to keep them on me, I went there again for a few times to different spots, but again all that i found was broken ugly blades, after a month when I roamed all the visible fields at that area I went to check a field far away from home where my father found a complete arrowhead 30 years ago, it turned out to be even better. after I've been there a few times I found some very nice blades, scrapers and pieces of arrowheads, all purple because of the heat treatment they went through.
A week ago I've heard from my brother about a field neer Tira (Arabic town) where he have found some flint stuff, including an arrowhead tail, I decided to go and check that field, and it turned out to be a very special place. On the first time I came back home with 4 purple arrowheads, 1 point, probably of a spear, some very nice knives and obsidian blades (the closest place to Israel with obsidian is near Anatolia). Today I went there again, and I brought back home some arrowhead points, knives and obsidian blades, and some other stuff.
In the mean(?) time, my brother had a walk to the dirt "mine" I used to search in and found an arrowhead, driller and an axe with use marks.
All of those things are almost the same like those in Texas, they are from the Neolitic of Israel (I think 8000 years old, if I'm wrong it could be 10,000 - 5000).
I have already photograped most of them and they sould be on the net in a week or two. Do you come across such things while looking for older stuff?
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