Arrowhead Collecting

Sites :

• Analysis of Flaked Stone Artifacts from Northern Chihuahua, Mexico - An analysis of artifacts recovered during excavations at the late prehistoric site of Galeana, a Chihuahua, Mexico multistory adobe pueblo.
• Archaeological Guide to Chert Types of East-Central Illinois - Identification guide to the types of chert exploited by the prehistoric people of east-central Illinois. By Lenville J. Stelle and Thomas Duggan.
• ArchNet - Lithics - Categorized directory of annotated links.
• Arroweb1 - Photographs of a personal collection of stone tools from Arizona and Texas.
• Arrowhead Museum - This site is dedicated to showing small points from around the world. Image gallery.
• Artifacts From The Southeast - Skip Hutchison's collection of stone tools from Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. Includes brief descriptions of the artifacts.
• Bieling & Psota, Archaeological Consultants - A cultural resource management company based in Sonoma, California that specializes in the analysis of stone tools and obsidian hydration. Includes site and lithic technology reports.
• Digital Crabtree - Paper presenting a computer simulation of Folsom fluting. By Tony Baker.
• The Dirt Brothers - Collections of thousands of pictures of arrowheads and other lithics, mainly from Texas.
• Dirtdiggers.net - Pictures of a personal collection of arrowheads from Missouri, arranged by time period.
• Donald's Indian Artifacts - A collection of stone tools found in North Carolina over a 50 year period.
• Embeddedness of Lithic Technology - An article by Leland C. Bement that describes using stone tools to reconstruct Folsom mobility and subsistence practices on the Southern Plains.
• Finding Arrowheads - A basic guide to arrowhead hunting.
• FlintSource - Searchable database of samples of flint and other siliceous raw materials collected by Rengert Elburg and Paul van der Kroft in Central Europe. Search by location or type.
• Gunner Jim's Arrowheads - Pictures of a personal collection of arrowheads, spear points, and stone tools, found while surface artifact hunting in Middle and West Tennessee.
• Indie's Page O' Points - Collection of points from Texas.
• Lithic Casting Lab.Com - Sells casts and pictures of projectile points.
• Lithic Technology - A peer-reviewed journal concerned with dissemination knowledge about archaeological stone tools.
• Lithics Glossary - Definitions of terms commonly used in the study of lithic technology.
• The Lithics Site - Extensive listing of links to information and resources of interest to lithic analysts and other archaeologists, maintained by Hugh W. Jarvis, University at Buffalo.
• Michael's Lithic Studies - Group of research reports and links related to microwear analysis, flintknapping, raw material sourcing.
• Mike's Artifact Collection - Photographs of a personal collection of Native American artifacts.
• Neil's Texas Indian Artifacts - Arrowheads and stone age tools. Archaic flint knives, axes, and spear points.
• Northern Fluted Points - Inventory, database, and bibliography of points from Alaska and Canada. Compiled by Georges A. Pearson.
• Oklahoma Stone Tools and Arrowheads - Photographs of arrowheads and other artifacts from Northeastern Oklahoma.
• Projectile Point Types: Neverending Draft Bibliography - Compiled by Michael Pfeiffer.
• Projectile Points and Methods of Dating - Introduction to the methods of dating projectile points using artifacts from Texas as examples.
• Southern Ontario Projectile Points - An illustrated typology with artifact descriptions presented by the London Chapter of the Ontario Archaeological Society.
• Stone Age Reference Collection - A reference program containing information about the typology, technology and raw materials and of the Stone Age.
• Stone Artifacts of the North Carolina Piedmont - An amateur archaeologist's look at lithic artifacts found in the North Carolina Piedmont.
• Stone Implements - Article by R.V.S. Wright of the University of Sydney provides an overview of morphological features of flaked stone tools. Features definitions, photographs and illustrations.
• Stone Tool Typology - Introduction to the classification of stone tools by form.
• Texas Arrowheads and Indian Artifacts - Photo gallery of arrowhead and artifact types found in Texas with information provided on lithic technology.
• Texas Points: Typology - Field guide with photographs and descriptions of many of the lithic types found in Texas.
• Trans-Cascade Obsidian Procurement - A report by Craig E. Skinner and Carol J. Winkler that describes the geochemical evidence of quarrying and transport in Western Oregon.
• What is Lithic Analysis? - Introduction to the analysis of stone artifacts. Features definitions of lithic artifact classes manufactured by chipping, grinding, or battering.