Where in arkansas can we go to find arrowheads?

Question

Where in arkansas can we go to find arrowheads?

Answer 1

Any place where ancient Amerinds lived or hunted regularly?

Email your nearest uni arcahaeology dept?

They might know too?

Answer 2

Along the sides of rivers/streams, especially the curves. Also, you can find pottery.  They are elsewhere but water uncovers them. Think like a hunter, animals have to go to water to drink. Look for where the stream may have changed course for it may be in a different location than previous. Streams and rivers go to lakes and rocks get washed around to the opening sides. Many times I have stopped in my tracks, looked down and guess what. I live near a lake. My brother had a whole room covered in them. He is good at finding them. Fun. lol

Answer 3

My first suggestion would be to join the Arkansas Archaeological Society (http://www.uark.edu/depts/4society/) and consult with the State Historic Preservation Officer before you do anything that may inadvertently put you on the wrong side of federal, state, or local laws (e.g.: NAGPRA).

Here in Ontario, it's illegal to to do any form of archaeological fieldwork (including surveying, surface collecting, excavating, etc.), on private or public land, without a licence, and it's illegal to knowingly disturb any archaeological site without a licence. Get convicted and you could go to jail for up to a year and/or pay a fine of up to a million $$$!

Please remember: without full provenance and context data, an artifact such as an arrowhead is nothing more than a worthless curio from the past. Every artifact you pick up alters the story that the site from which it was removed has to tell us about the people who left it behind. Archaeological sites, and the artifacts and other remains they contain, represent the only physical record for the vast majority of human history on our continent. They are the cultural patrimony left by the ancestors to us, to our children, and to our children's children.  We owe it to them, the ancestors and our descendants, to do our utmost to ensure that their legacy is protected, conserved, and used in such a way that it provides the maximum enlightenment and benefit for the greatest number of people. And in some cases that may even mean leaving a site in the ground and undisturbed forever.

If you really want some arrowheads (or projectile points, as we archaeologists refer to them), then why not take up the art of flintknapping and learn to make your own?

Answer 4

You better be careful. If on private land it's consider "ok" but it's illegal to loot for artifacts.  Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA)

Why you want to do this? It's erasing history.  You have interest in Native Americans or a "hobby"?  So sad.

Natives can never rest.