This practical, down-to-earth guide for surface collectors of arrowheads and stone artefacts is designed especially for amateur archaeologists and people interested in learning how to study and collect artifacts safely and responsibly. The author reveals invaluable tips on: where to look for artefacts; how to identify artefacts; where surface collecting is permissible; starting and caring for your own collection. With more than fifty new photographs and illustrations of common and rare artefacts, this book is the perfect addition to libraries of amateur archaeologists thirsty for knowledge about preserving and interpreting the remains of a prehistoric culture.
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Acknowledged by the late Dr. H. M. Wormington as "very helpful for amateurs who truly care about archaeology," the nationally recognized Arrowheads & Stone Artifacts that has sold more than 50,000 copies is now revised, with a foreword written by Dr. George Frison, Professor Emeritus University of Wyoming and Paleoarchaeologist of the Century.
This practical, down-to-earth guide for surface collectors of arrowheads and stone artifacts is designed especially for amateur archaeologists and people interested in learning how to study and collect artifacts safely and responsibly.
Author C. G. Yeager reveals invaluable tips on:
* where to look for artifacts
* how to identify artifacts
* where surface collecting is permissible
* starting and caring for your own collection
With more than fifty new photographs and illustrations of common and rare artifacts, this second edition is the perfect addition to libraries of amateur archaeologists thirsty for knowledge about preserving and interpreting the remains of a prehistoric culture.
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C. G. Yeager is an archaeologist by avocation, having been a student for more than forty years.
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By Lawrence Lockyear JP (Gooseberry Hill, WA Australia) - See all my reviews
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A good book, however contains a lot of personal family photos and scenes of camp sites of nil interest or information to anyone but the authors family. Also has a fair amount of pottery information, a strange choice for a book on stone artifacts and arrowheads. Good but not fantastic.
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Informative book by an obvious master of the subject,
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A valuable book, especially for beginning collectors like myself. Well written in a conversational style that welcomes the reader in. It's worth noting that, due to the author's own experience and background, the book focuses primarily upon artifact collecting in the Western U.S. and is therefore of maximum benefit for readers from that region.
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Limited use for those in the East,
This review is from: Arrowheads & Stone Artifacts: A Practical Guide for the Amateur Archaeologist (Paperback)
If you live out West, this will be be a fairly decent volume on arrowheads, however for those in the East, it has minimal value.
I recommend buying the Overstreet guide
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A lifelong hobby began for me by accident almost fifty years ago on a hill on the edge of Greeley, Colorado. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
flintknapping process, flint material, arrowhead hunter, hunting artifacts, prehistoric campsite, arrowhead hunting, broken arrowheads, hunting stick, stone artifacts, tepee ring, grinding slab, pressure flaking, professional archaeologists, stone material, rubbing stone, projectile point, stone balls, most artifacts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Rocky Mountains, Great Plains, Northern Plains, Middle Archaic, New Mexico, Early Paleo, Geological Survey, Late Paleo, Early Palen, Courtesy Stackpole Company, Early Archaic, Spanish Diggings, Hartville Uplift New!
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A lifelong hobby began for me by accident almost fifty years ago on a hill on the edge of Greeley, Colorado. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
flintknapping process, flint material, arrowhead hunter, hunting artifacts, prehistoric campsite, arrowhead hunting, broken arrowheads, hunting stick, stone artifacts, tepee ring, grinding slab, pressure flaking, professional archaeologists, stone material, rubbing stone, projectile point, stone balls, most artifacts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Rocky Mountains, Great Plains, Northern Plains, Middle Archaic, New Mexico, Early Paleo, Geological Survey, Late Paleo, Early Palen, Courtesy Stackpole Company, Early Archaic, Spanish Diggings, Hartville Uplift New!
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- Rocks and Minerals (Introducing geology series) by Janet Watson in Back Matter
- Rocks and Minerals by Paul R. Shaffer in Back Matter
- North American Indian Artifacts (North American Indian Artifacts: A Collector's Identification & Value Guide) by Lar Hothem in Back Matter
- American Indians in Colorado (Colorado Ethnic History Series, No 1) by J. Donald Hughes in Back Matter
- Journal of a Trapper by Osborne Russell in Back Matter
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