welcome back to clicks Adventures today we're on the banks of the Ohio river and we're going to be searching for ancient artifacts anything up to 14,000 years old and I'm going to explain to you how these artifacts are getting here where they're coming from and just how old some of this stuff is we brought the sifter and we brought the shovel so I'm going to clear some of this mud out of here get a place to put my sifter in the water and then we'll geted started stay with me and if you're seeing this right now we had a great [Applause] day perfect what I'm feeling for is all this gravel and stone Down Under This sand and there's a lot of it there's a lot of stone right in this area here and out through there so what I'm going to do I'm going to fill up this sifter and uh we'll shake it down see if we got anything and then I'm going to go over just how this stuff's getting here oh we got a monster in here a nice one I want you to look at this and you see if you can spot this you ain't going to miss it this is what we're looking for here you see these flakes there's a lot of them coming out of here these are from uh where they made arrowheads and spear points and knocking off the waist pieces there's a lot of flakes in here I want you to look right here oh amazing look at that it looks to be uh an Adena Vanishing stem or a diminishing stem what they call it this could be up to 3,000 years old and with the amount of patina built up on that I'd say it's every bit of 3,000 years old this would have been a a dart Point projectile for hunting look at that that's just a monster right there and I'll show you here in a minute uh how I know how old this is and what it is oh yeah our first point of the day very nice Adena I better look through the rest of this I got excited when I saw that it's hard to tell I've pulled two even three out of a screen at one time you see these Stones here all these are busted up campfire Stones you'll hear people refer to them as fire rock which actually fired Rock and these red fired Stones would have been around a campfire ancient campfires at that time and they've been fired so many times they'll just stay red forever but they all get busted up into little tiny pieces like this here's a little bit larger one right here that hasn't quite busted completely apart several flakes in here not seeing anything else in this one uh let's get back at it and try another one we got a double whammy in this one look here now we got two things one of them's okay one of them is super nice very unique look down in here let's pick this one up [Applause] first it's a little flake bladelet I find a lot of these down here these were uh knocked off a core and used like little xacto knives or something I find a lot of those that were very sharp very small very thin but I want you to look down in here we got something very nice look at this it's right there it does not look broken either oh yeah it's an ancient drill bit a stone drill bit that is very cool look at that now this was a a spear point at one time a dart point that it probably had broken but they didn't waste anything around here they used that and made it into a drill bit now this would have been probably Haled on a stick and either twirled with the hands or like with a bow drill for drilling through stuff very cool little piece right there I've found several of these over the years but most of the time they're broken that is really nice I love finding in different stuff like that instead of just arrowheads all the time very unique piece all right a bladelet a dart point and a drill bit I'm not seeing anything else in this one let me just go over this real quick and explain to you how these artifacts are getting down here on the banks of the Ohio River the Ohio is a damned up River but before the water used to be way down there but when they put the dams in it Rose the water level and it stays like a big lake and the water doesn't go any lower than it usually is about right here now but when it floods like we had last week it comes up here onto this bank and those are are flat Fields up there above and when that water gets up on this bank right here it eats away of that dirt and huge chunks of that field will fall down onto the beaches here of the river and it slowly Works its way down under the water and slides down this beach until it gets to the water's edge right here and then it can't go any further and people lived up on these flat fields for thousands of years so you can only imagine how many things have been dropped or lost around the house and you can see on some of these steeper beaches where the sand doesn't gather that the stuff gets exposed like this as it's sliding down the hill these are all same thing busted up campfire stones and they're sliding down to the beach where we dig them out of the sand now down on the beach the stuff likes to lay down under the sand that's why you have to shovel it out and a lot of times I'll just flip through these exposed stones and find things laying out on the surface but uh not as much if you really want to find a lot of stuff you got to sift let's get back at it let's do another screen see if we can't find something else and uh I'll show you how I know how old this stuff is couple screens later we got us a nice one in here I want you to look at this it looks like another Adena but it looks like a knife blade it is beautiful look at this oh look at this I didn't even see it it's a little preform you could see they were uh trying to work that down into something wasn't going right for him probably just gave up on it look down in here do you see this you can't miss it oh my gosh it's made out of Flint Ridge Church from Ohio look at that incredible it's another Adena AA Point probably 2 3,000 years old up to 3,000 years old it's made out of Flint Ridge chur from Ohio which is about this Quarry is about uh probably 85 90 miles from here and you can see this is a knife blade you see how it's shaped let me get this into the sky here you see how it's shaped with this curved Edge on the side how they favored that one side this would have been used as a knife blade not a projectile and this Flint Ridge CHT or Flint will come in several colors but the most colors I find it in are pink and white and this one's white with a little bit of pink on on it and you can see a little bit of the uh outside of the Quarry right there and I have another piece with that orange on it I think that's the uh outside of the Quarry where it was weathered over time or something very cool very beautiful piece Adena knife blade and the Adena they were the mound builders the first mound builders around here several Mounds around here oh yeah that is spectacular right there very nice now there's no way to know just how old everything is that's coming out of the ground unless it has certain characteristics of points and I'm going to show you how I know how old these projectiles and knives are around here this is how I know how old these Arro heads and uh Dart points are I study this stuff a lot and this book right here the official over Street breaks it all down for you and uh it gives you identification and even grading and the prices of some of this stuff and what it's worth and this book breaks it down by region and the types of points you'll find in those areas just at this point we found first this Adena you can see here Adena Vanishing stem it's a lar cake to a woodland period point 3,00 to 18800 years old it's continued on the next page and you can see what we're looking at here very small stem on that and with the grade of this Adena here this Vanishing stem Adena I would say that's about a75 880 point but I don't worry about the prices because I don't uh I don't sell anything I find I'm a collector not in the business of selling this hole was full of stuff that White Blade I think came from right over there but there's still more here and then I'm going to work my way down here towards the water seems to be a lot of stuff down there also and uh we'll keep going up the beach as we go let's get back at it I just found an odd piece laying right in these gravels here I think it might be natural but I don't know look at that let me check this out it appears to be like a natural piece of hematite that has a dished out place I would say it was a round Cobble and something like a little nodule has leeched out of it probably hundreds of thousands of years ago but this thing has been used by ancient man I want to show you something something I'm going to take you a couple of pictures of uh what I'm looking at here and what I see under this Loop but this piece was not shaped by humans this is just a natural shape that thing rolled down an ancient river probably hundreds of thousands of years ago like I say and took off this rounded shape after that little nodule leaked out of the middle of it there here's a photo of the back of the stone as you can see it's not been modified by man it's just a uh natural tumbled Stone but look when I turn it over around the edges and inside the hole there you can clearly see abrasions where something has been spinning or rubbing around in there now there's no telling what this piece is I would say it's some sort of a race or a bearing for a shaft to spin in now it's too small really to hold in the hand for like a firear in Shaft or anything like that but maybe it was pressed into a piece of clay or maybe it was uh embedded in a piece of wood for some kind of a simple machine or something who knows what they had but it has definitely been worked and something has been spinning in that divot that is a very unique piece right there I love finding different stuff like this that is definitely a cool piece for the collection right there very nice oh that sounds good I pulled this little Bush out of here it had Roots all under there all the roots came up and it has got Stone Galore packed in this hole right here oh that is some artifact Rich dirt right there now the pay streak we got another one in here I can't see it all but we'll pull it out together let me get you in the Sun so you can see this better there we go do you see it it's just there it's all there oh wow nice this is a very well-made piece right here now I can't match it up with anything in the book and I don't think anybody else could either because it's just been resharpened so much that the notches and all the characteristics are just basically gone all you have to go on is a flat base but there's something else you have to go on here at first I thought this was uh something newer but now I'm starting to think it's uh maybe middle archaic like a 5 6,000 year old point and what leads me to believe that it's an older point is it has a ground base they took this against a stone and they ground that base to dull it that way when they shot it with a dart darts were heavier so when they hit an animal there was a lot of weight going on to that uh Dart point and that that DED base kept it from cutting back into the shaft and that takes a lot of blow out from penetrating the animal now later times when they had arrows they didn't have to uh grind the bases cuz the shafts were a lot lighter and the points were a lot smaller so that's what leads me to believe that this is a bit older of a point than something newer it's also kind of thick sweet nothing else in that one oh we got a nice one in here we got two one of them is broken in half oh look check this out it looks all there there's a cool stone look at that one oh yeah it's gray and it's got some little uh orange streaks in there look at that one very nice and this also is a knife blade you can see that curve on it on this side there's another one down here I think it's broken now right here yeah it just looks like the uh the tip off of something it's broken right there may have been something really large we don't know we might find the other half of it I have a lot of brokes from this area that I haven't really tried to match up we might have a match we're pulling loads of flakes out of here there's that preform and that broke there's a whole stuff oh that's a nice one not the biggest one but uh very nice though had to get a drink I got that last one right in here up the beach a little bit I'm going to keep going up through there see if if I can't find any more it came right out here under that uh big wheel Fork right there right in this area had to come back and get my camera out of my bag I want you to look at this I got one laying out flat out up here it was sliding down but it hadn't quite made it to the beach yet I should start looking this stuff before I start sifting oh look right here you see all these stones that are sliding down this beach they haven't made it down to the water yet but they'll Gather in little pockets like right here you see this pocket of stone I see this sticking out right there it's definitely something it's uh it's a little crude knife let me go rinse it off it's uh it's a crude little knife blade looks like something something they just roughed out real quick off of a cbla chir they found here on the riverbank very crude probably just a quick knife they needed something fast to skin something or cut something it's not worked really well but I'm sure it did the job oh yeah that ain't bad still got a good shape to it oh that sounds great wow we just lucked out big time look at this this might be the nicest uh one of the nicest ones I've ever found of this type look at this can you see it it's just there oh wow look at that this is probably one of the top three best arot tips that I've ever found and this would have been the most modern Stone tip used before uh Europeans showed up look how well that is made incredible very small very tiny flakes taken off of that and these newer points like I say are not ground on the base they're sharp on the base because they went on an arrow which was a lot lighter and they didn't have that heavy shaft pushing against the back of it when it hit something very nice triangle oh I like that one you know it's hard to tell how many people that fed on the hunt that was a sweet one right there we got another one in the same screen now this one was a little bit harder to see but it's sticking out right here I see a piece of flint ah it's all there maybe one little chip out of the base right there I believe it's another Adena Point has a slight chip out of the base but you can see that Adena base on there it's not made very well and it's very used up well we're going to go ahead and get out of here Rocky keeps calling me I think he's wanting to go to the movie or something he didn't want to come today because I mentioned a shovel and he don't like shoveling if we're doing something else he's all for it but you mentioned shovel Rocky's out y'all come back now
