Posted by Peter on January 30, 2004 at 20:20:49:
In Reply to: Feeling like Texas 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? Hi Or. A least here in California if you just touch
one of those things in public land without an
archeological permit you can be fined heavily and
even go to jail. I suppose that law exists because
of the rarity of such artifacts and pro-Native
American religious believes. There have been
cases that urban developments have been
permanently stopped because the unlucky
developer hit into an Native American burial
ground. This happened in Santa Barbara once in
the late 1980s. Peter
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