Anthropology

lapfog_1

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2. Growing up in Kansas

Tue Aug 21, 2018, 12:07 AM

Aug 2018

we would always put in a 2 to 3 acre garden... plowed it by single blade turn plow hand steered and we frequently dug up pot shards and arrowheads... my dad once found a axe head made from obsidian (dragon glass to you GOT fans).

I think we had like 20 or 30 arrowheads in the collection... some good, others chipped or otherwise flawed. I think our land had once been used as a "manufacturing site" by native Americans... just down the hill from our land there was a rock quarry (flint mostly) that had been there a very long time

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Judi Lynn I love your posts. Always fascinating. Thank you! Dream Girl Aug 2018 #1

Thank you for your post, Dream Girl. I am lucky to find these things. I'm always surprised. n/t Judi Lynn Aug 2018 #3

Growing up in Kansas lapfog_1 Aug 2018 #2

Having those experiences in one's background could make a fanatic of a person! Amazing. Judi Lynn Aug 2018 #4

I also have a nice collection MuseRider Aug 2018 #6

I've been there... Burnetts Mound, Topeka KS lapfog_1 Aug 2018 #7

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