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Arrowheads & Stone Artifacts: A Practical Guide for the Amateur Archaeologist

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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.

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.

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

This is book is great for exactly those it was written for. Its a guide to those wishing to learn from the very begging about LEGALLY finding (not plundering)and indentifying Native American artifacts. No more,no less. Those that feel this is anything else are likely those individuals who never actually READ a book, but only glance at a page or two and then proceeded to take the entire book out of context.

Although I am from the South, Ms. and Ga., this book was instrumental in introducing me to a lifetime love of hunting for arrowheads in my travels throughout the US. I found my first points using this book walking creek gravel beds in the suburbs of Atlanta, Ga. Using Mr. Yeager's information I have found points in Ms. Ga. Ws. Co. Wy. and even in Baja Mexico. All these points were surface points on creek gravel beds and river banks and would soon be lost to erosion had I not found them. Its an excellent introduction to the principles of hunting stone artifacts.

This one is a MUST HAVE for serious artifact hunters or for those who aspire to be... it's the ABSOLUTE BEST guide for finding ancient arrowheads and artifacts. The reason I like this one best is because it first educates the reader about all sorts of artifacts, with lots of photos; it explains what they look like and what they were used for, etc... just so you'll know "what" to look for out in the field. It then goes on to give information about the types of ancient sites, AND how to locate them !(I also like it because it's VERY inexpensive, for the information it imparts.)
Sincerely,
Terry Baxter
WesternArtifacts.com

This is the best guide for the amateur archeologist we have found to date. Written in layman's terms, excellent photos and descriptions. Only disagreement we have is that the author suggests that it is acceptable to take some artifacts such as arrowheads. We disagree -- all are more valuable in situ.

Not only is this book very helpful to us amateur archaeologists, but it gives a great treatment of the feeling of doing fieldwork in southeastern Wyoming and northern Colorado. Being from this area, I was naturally thrilled to read about all the sites that are found practically in my back yard. The author writes in an extremely engaging manner and you will be hard-pressed to put the book down once you start reading.
Highly recommended!

This book by Mr. Yeager is easy to read and is well thought out. I use it frequently to identify different artifacts that I come across. However, I wish that the point identification chart used actual photo examples rather than line drawings as the drawings are hard to use for identification purposes. Overall a very good artifact book for those interested in surface collecting.

Now in an updated and expanded second edition, C.G. Yeager's Arrowheads & Stone Artifacts: A Practical Guide For The Amateur Archaeologist continues to be the finest introduction to the subject available for the non-specialist general reader with an interest in Native American antiquarian artifacts and archaeological sites. Yeager offers practical advice on where to look for artifacts, how to identify artifacts, where surface collecting is permissible, as well as how to start and care for a personal collection. Arrowheads & Stone Artifacts is a superbly written and presented introduction that is highly recommended for personal, school, and community library popular archaeology and Native American studies reference collections.