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Message:	: The National Heritage (or Cutural) Act of a few years ago makes it illegal to collect any kind of artifacts on federal land--whether indian, settler, or even just a few years old. That takes in about 50% of the USA, much of which is located in the western USA. The fines are huge. : Many western states also have Heritage Acts to prevent collecting on state owned lands. : There are many active collectors in the eastern states. I don't know what the state laws are, but so much of the land is privately owned, that it, not federal or state land is the likely source for those collectors. : bev : : : : 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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