The AACA Magazine

Volume Number 8 Issue Number 2 Winter 2010

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Volume Number 8 Issue Number 2 Winter 2010

Table of Contents Presidents Message Pg 1 From The Editor Pg 2 Understanding the Intrusive Mound Pipe Pg 3-4 Cliff Dwellings of Walnut Canyon Pg 5-11 Hunting Waterways Pg 12-14 Where in the Heck is Mesoamerica?? Pg 15 I Love Arrowheads Pg16 In Situs Pg 17-26 Critter Gallery Pg 27-31

Editor Steve Stangland Design & Layout by Robert Dills

On the Cover AACA President Cliff J holding the Sweetwater Biface from Texas

From the President’s Desk We hope that you all enjoy this latest AACA Magazine.

The Association has over 3600 members at present, and YOU can be a part of the AACA by writing for this magazine, posting on the Members Forum, or by attending the AACA Expo in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky.

For 2011, the Expo dates will be April 1-3, 2011, so mark your calendars. This is a great show with ancient artifacts from the entire world on exhibition. All relic sales carry President Cliff Jackson holding his best find of Spring 2010, a the AACA minimum guarantee Pee Dee Woodpecker pipe of 14 days return for any reason, and many good authenticators will be in attendance. There will be seminars by experts as well as a wide variety of knowledgeable collectors with whom you may converse.

The AACA Members Forum can use more posts, more subjects, and more answers to our membersâ€&#x; artifact questions. If you can spend a few minutes online helping others, many will appreciate it.

Finally, the AACA Magazine can always use good articles and pictures. Our Editor Steve Stangland can always use more information from the members for use in this online publication. The AACA Magazine is an open source online magazine which can be viewed for free by anyone in the world, whether or not they are an AACA member.

Have a great and productive 2011 hunting season!

Cliff Jackson AACA President

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Editor’s Message - Kudos to Matt Patstone!

Editor Stangland snaps a few shots in a Riverside County (Southern California) rock shelter

I would like to extend special thanks to one of our AACA members who almost single-handedly provided this issue with its In Situ section. Well over 50 percent of the pictures in that article were provided by Matt Patstone of Valley Center, California. Matt submitted a number of his own personal finds, plus a number of additional ones found by several of his hunting partners, including one outstanding point found by his father on “Dad‟s” very first hunt! Matt also provided several submissions to the Critter Gallery, one of which describes an encounter with a one-eyed bobcat. Don‟t miss it!

There will be plenty of room in the 2011 AACA Magazine issues for member-submitted articles and pictures of personal finds. I encourage readers to continue sending these to me at sstangland@cox.net. Personal finds, if of good quality and photographic sharpness, will almost always be published. Additionally, we would like to include a section of members‟ “favorite artifacts.” These do not have to be personally found. We just ask that you have confidence in the authenticity of the piece(s). If enough submissions are received, we will definitely make room for a new section that might be entitled something along the lines of “My Favorite Artifact.”

The AACA Board of Directors hopes that all of you had successful, enjoyable hunting and collecting experiences in 2010. We are confident that this issue of our magazine will enrich those experiences.

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Understanding the Intrusive Mound Pipe

by Col. John F. Berner, Roswell, Georgia

Steatite Intrusive Mound pipe, 2 ½ inches; found Elizabethton, Tennessee

This focus is on one of the briefest cultures of prehistoric America. Scholars identify this period as the Intrusive Mound culture, which lasted a few hundred years from about 650 to 900 AD. It followed the demise of Hopewell and preceded the Mississippian phase in the ninth century.

What we know of the Intrusive Mound people is mostly from their unique artifacts and their trait of burial in prior existing Hopewell mounds. Squire and Davis, mid-1800 explorers, mention the discovery of Intrusive burials within Hopewell edifices at Mound City, Chillicothe, Ohio.

These people were obviously acquainted with Hopewell as they emulated a form of platform pipes that had only existed in those previous prehistoric times.

Diagnostic artifacts of this distinctive culture include antler/bone harpoon projectiles, antler hafted beaver tooth incisors, stone pick instruments of diorite or granite (whose application is yet unidentified), shell beads, trapezoidal slate pendants, and distinctive platform pipes such as the one shown above.

These platform pipes are “self pipes,� designed to be smoked without an additional stem.

Most are made from a blackish green steatite, found in North Carolina. They feature a rimmed bowl which expands from the stem upward and is gouged to extreme thinness. Two distinct styles have been identified with Intrusive Mound. One an elbow type, the other is the platform type with the bowl situated near the end of a thin ridged platform, often with a distinctive fin or handle below the bowl and platform. I speculate its purpose is to hold the instrument while smoking.

Bottom view of platform shows bite marks PG 3

Similar to Hopewell platform pipes, the stems of Intrusive Mound pipes are bored about 1/8” in diameter. This negates the use of a supplemental stem. The platform also extends beyond the bowl, for which I assume may be for appearance rather than utilitarian.

Students of prehistoric smoking pipes and their archaeological compatriots have long been puzzled by the strange and interesting work marks on the platforms and bowls of both Hopewell and Intrusive Mound artifacts. It has been suggested by some that these striations appear as though they might have been made by modern abrading tools.

Nothing could be further from the truth! In 1959, Earl Townsend, Jr., author of “Birdstones of North America,” commissioned the Nicholson File Company to examine these marks, and they reported that they were inconsistent with their metal rasps.

Early explorers of Hopewell mounds reported finding the teeth and jaws of the Gar fish (indigenous to the Ohio River Valley) among the burial furniture, and suggested that they could have been used to produce the work marks evident on these pipes.

Steatite selected for the unique Intrusive Mound pipes is soft when first quarried. Subsequent smoking and later burial in the earth for hundreds of years produces a particular hardness.

Efforts by clandestine artisans over the past 150 years to recreate replicas have been a failure.

View of bowl and platform shows striations

The Elizbethton, Tennessee Intrusive Mound pipe is both unique and quite rare. In forty years of prehistoric pipe study and examination, I have seen but five authentic specimens, two of which were damaged and restored. This one has graced the collections of Byron Knoblock, Tommy Beutell and Eric Walters. Thank you for listening.

Photo credits: courtesy of John Pafford

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Cliff Dwellings of Walnut Canyon Article and pictures by Steve Stangland

Seven miles east of Flagstaff, Arizona, at nearly 7000 feet in elevation the traveler finds the Visitor Center to Walnut Canyon. With an impressive panoramic view, it sits precipitously on the edge of the 400 foot deep canyon. There are 240 steep steps that drop 185 feet and deposit the anxious visitor into a different world – a world of “Sinagua” culture cliff dwellings. The trail flattens out at this point and the “Island Trail,” an easily negotiable loop, passes by 25 Sinagua cliff dwelling rooms. The canyon contains many more cliff ruins, but this trail boasts of the largest concentration of them.

This view is across the canyon from the “Island Trail.” There is no visitor access to these ruins (look closely at lower strata)

The Sinagua people built their cliff-side homes and occupied Walnut Canyon between 1125 and 1250 A.D. This is a bit surprising because these dates represent only 125 years. Like the Sinagua Indians living to the south in the Verde Valley drainage areas, these people were both hunters and farmers.

Although sad, it is interesting to note that following the abandonment of the canyon in approximately 1250 A.D. and all the way to the late 1880‟s (over 600 years) these canyon homes were left undisturbed. In the 1880‟s a brand new culture arrived by “iron horse.” The new culture, of course, was Euro-American and had arrived by railroad. Pot hunters and souvenir seekers now invaded the canyon and carried off most of the artifacts. It is a real travesty that in some cases dwelling walls were dynamited to allow more light into the rooms. Many of these blown-out walls can be seen in the pictures in this article.

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Here is a close-up view of a natural recess in a limestone canyon wall. The canyon is full of these shallow caves that eroded out of the cliffs by natural forces over thousands of years. When the Sinagua arrived, they had only to add three walls. Mother Nature had already provided perfect floors, roofs, and ceilings.

This picture demonstrates how they built the rooms into the cliffside. These may have been dynamited. Notice the color change in the mortar and the probable restoration.

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Above left is a close-up of wall construction. Rocks were cemented and plastered together with a gold-colored clay. On the right is a typical doorway with its reinforcing wooden beam and smoke hole above.

These ruins are across the canyon with no access. I got a decent shot with my 10 power zoom.

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Below is another shot from across the canyon.

More ruins across the canyon. Taken with a 10 power zoom.

These are several of the 25 rooms that can be seen right along the trail. Visitors are allowed to enter and inspect any of the trail-side ruins.

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Walnut Canyon Visitor Center

More Ruins

A smoky den

Only mountain goats can get to this one

Some rooms had great views!

A “corner lot�

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CANYON VIEWS

This is looking down from mid-canyon...about 200 feet to the floor. The canyon averages 400 feet in depth

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An artist‟s concept of daily life in Walnut Canyon - Picture from signage

Walnut Canyon is 20 miles long and averages 400 feet deep. The Visitor Center and the main concentration of cliff-side dwellings are found near the “head” of the canyon. On my way out, as I gazed at the view seen above, I couldn‟t help wondering what an adventure it would be to explore the rest of the 19 miles!

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Hunting Waterways by Matt Rowe (A worthy article republished from a November 2009 post at the AACA website)

Honey Creek, Hunt Co, Texas

Honey Creek, Hunt Co., Texas (Picture submitted by Raymond Gathright)

Waterways are my primary method of hunting anymore. Not all creeks and waterways will produce. Because there is water there now, doesn't mean it was always there because the courses of waterways often change.

When that happens, it's as common for sites to be covered up, as well as uncovered. Another thing to consider is the water quality itself. Even if there is a water source, it helps for it to be "potable" water for Native Americans to have utilized it to any degree.

You WILL find points on water if you follow some certain rules. You also can find more artifacts on waterways than with any other methods of hunting (in most environments). The trick is knowing how to do it.

The first thing you need to do is spend some time studying topo maps; they will help you determine where the sites are. They also help aid you in determining the most likely places where there is erosion on waterways.

Native Americans were far from ignorant savages, and most of this comes down to common sense.

First, letâ€&#x;s take sedentary villages. These are often expansive encampments where the natives survived for long periods of time. These are generally the later groups of people. Paleo were very mobile and nomadic. As time progressed and the populations exploded, it was harder for these groups to move and they became more immobile, or sedentary, in their lifestyle.

There are many factors to consider. Shelter from the wind for instance. You will notice that the larger settlements were not only made nearer to a water source (convenience), but they also were often backed by hills to help protect against the elements.

As I said, it all boils down to logic. Like all liquids, water follows the path of least resistance. This means that where there is a bend in the river, it is usually caused from hitting a harder substance, or there is a higher elevation to turn it back. Indians weren't stupid and would not have built sedentary villages in flood plains.

This is why you will generally find the larger villages on the outside bends of waterways - make sense?

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The ability to travel was also very important. Water was a very quick means of travel. This is why you will find many large villages at the mouths of waterways that extend for great distances.

This all tells us that if you find a large area (not in a flood plain) at intersecting waterways that is well protected against the environment, that has potable water, with game readily available, and defensible …. you WILL find habitation there ... period.

Once you find this area, how do you find the signs of habitation? Again, let's use logic to find them. Do you just want to search any high bank or eroded area? You can (and I usually do), but there are certain areas that will always produce more, saving you lots of time. Once you have established where the settlement was, then you need to think about erosion. On small feeder creeks you will notice the most erosion to be where the elevation changes. You still want to stay in the village area though, so you'll have to use your head a bit.

MAN-MADE WATERWAYS RULE (Check your local laws)! Using the same methods as I've described above, you will find them easy to hunt. From looking at a topo map, you can pick the sites with ease. We know that the higher elevations are the upper "river" channels, before they expand into the reservoirs. The reservoirs hold artifacts, but the sites that were on the shores are now far under the lake surface. The upper river channels are a different story. Where the river starts opening up to the lake you will find the highest amount of erosion. The sites there will be easy to hunt and you will find exposed artifacts much more frequently. **The best time to hunt creeks & rivers seems to be late fall or even winter. If it's a man-made waterway, the water is typically lower that time of the year (winter pool), but that also goes for many natural waterways as well. The biggest reason for water hunting during winter is visibility. Much of the vegetation has died off and you won't get quite as much staining or crapola on your rocks. **If you have a place that ices over, that can be a plus in some instances. The ground will actually contract and expand with the ice and this will help work as a shovel for you. Surface hunting right after ice melts is as good (often better) than a good rain storm. ** These two paragraphs are additional tips that Matt posted recently regarding this subject.

You read above what Matt had to say about hunting waterways in the winter. Here is what Chris Peters has to say about this picture: “This is an exposed gravel bar in a very sharp bend on the creek on our farm in Osage county, Missouri. The water is up quite a bit here.

It's very close to the Gasconade River at this point and floods easily. I usually like to hunt these bends when it's down.

I found my best point ever on this bar……..a 4 3/16 Agate Basin.” Chris Peters PG 13

Bridges are always good starting points!

Dean‟s Creek, Miller County, Missouri. Picture submitted by Mike Brooks

A Kentucky “waterway” point recovered by Kathy Shelton from Knight Branch Creek, Calloway County

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Where in the Heck is Mesoamerica??

Picture from the Museum of Man in San Diego

Most collectors have heard the term “Mesoamerica,” but some don‟t really know what the term means. Others have a vague idea, but would not be able to define the geographic area very well. This is probably because most collectors concentrate on artifacts that come from north of the Rio Grande and are not all that familiar with those that come from the artifact-rich areas to the south. With you, the readers, always in mind, your Editor recently visited the San Diego Museum of Man in Balboa Park and snapped a picture of this map.

Because this area of the world has great historical and archaeological significance, collectors should be aware that many ancient cultures, such as the Olmec, Maya, and Aztec, lived in this area referred to as “Mesoamerica.” The region includes southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, western Honduras, the Pacific lowlands of Nicaragua, and northwestern Costa Rica. Much of Mesoamerica consists of the more tropical lowlands (between sea level and 3280 feet) and the often drier and cooler highlands (between 3280 and 6562 feet). Early peoples of the region domesticated maize, beans, squash, jicama, tomatoes, avocados, and cocoa beans (for beer and chocolate drinks), and produced fibers and textiles from cotton, yucca, and agave.

Now „ya know!!

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Editorâ€&#x;s note: In October of 2009, AACA member Ken White made an interesting post at the AACA discussion forum. I felt his work was deserving of being made a part of one of our AACA Online Magazine issues. Ken was gracious enough to grant his permission for us to include it in this issue. He is the president of the Peninsula Humane Society and SPCA just south of San Francisco. He is also one of the featured bloggers at SFGate.com, the on-line version of the San Francisco Chronicle, where his article first appeared.

Below is his article.

Why I Love Arrowheads - by Ken White I was recently profiled in a San Francisco Chronicle article (do something long enough, like working for the animals 30+ years, and it becomes newsworthy), and it mentioned arrowhead collecting as one of my several quirks or passions.

Someone misread that and as a result I was severely berated for hunting animals with arrows. No, not hunting with arrows, but instead hunting for arrowheads.

Why do I love arrowheads? Why do any of us obsess about anything? I have an old friend from high school, a probably brilliant man who actually is a brain surgeon, who collects the brand label stickers applied to bananas. Yep, banana stickers from around the world, or at least those parts of it in which bananas are grown.

Perhaps it honestly does take a brain surgeon to collect labels off of fruit, but he (and I) are not alone. Check out eBay or Craig's List for stamps, coins, old bottles, Elvis bobbleheads, mid-century ashtrays, meteorites, steam irons, anything having to do with cats, bottle caps, African masks, Jetsons' memorabilia, themed salt and pepper shakers, or fill-in-the-blank space that applies to your shelves.

So, again, why do I love arrowheads? Some hints: I love to hike, have long held a fascination for Native American and other indigenous cultures, and have great respect for anything made that I am not capable of making on my own. Plus, these are often truly artfully crafted items made from what are, obviously, carefully selected stones, examples of minds focused on both the aesthetic and the practical. And then add to all of that, my life's work with animals....

Arrowheads and the many other stone tools produced by the same peoples at the same time are the products of an animal blessed with a decent size brain and opposable thumbs. They are those things the early human animal came up with to compensate for all that they (we) did not have -- big fangs, wings, tough hide, great size and strength. They are our ancestors' wings. At least that's how I see it.

There are lots of laws about collecting them, so I look more than I take, and on those occasions when I do take it's only from a bit of private land owned by one friend or another (which makes it legal and, to my mind, not an ethical issue), or as gifts from people who have found or inherited them. Sometimes I acquire them from on -line auctions, other types of auctions, eBay, Craig's List, or from a few people I've met who do this as a way of earning part of their living.

I have several hundred arrowheads and other ancient stone artifacts. They are all in glass cases which I adore and dust regularly. Some are as ancient as 12,000 years old; others were created within the past couple of centuries. (Sadly, I have to assume that a few are completely modern fakes that snuck in, despite my best efforts). They are carefully catalogued in a very tidy three-ring binder. I buy related books and read about these relics and the cultures which created them. (One great on-line source of info is the Authentic Artifact Collectors Association at http://www.theaaca.com).

They are bits of our past - kept in my present. They are tools I understand, unlike the high tech tools I may rely on but don't understand. They are also a bit of order in an otherwise often chaotic modern world. I enjoy them when you may be watching television. Hey, at least they're not banana stickers!

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IN SITU SECTION

On January 29, 2010, the Editor and his hunting partner made a four-hour round trip of 215 miles and spent $35 on gas to find this one point lying in recently-rained-on Southern California desert sand. Was it worth it? Well, Yeeees! I wish I could tell you that the hand was mine, but it belongs to John Dillon.

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Matt Patstone of Valley Center, California sent these pictures in. He was hunting with his brother Derrick on February 6, 2010, in a Southern California desert area when this 2 ¼ inch green felsite Canalino Triangular point was found. Here is what Matt says about this find: “My brother bent down to his knees to pick up a shell bead that he saw on the ground. He thought he saw the tip of a stick coming out of the ground so he hooked it with his finger nail and the whole arrowhead popped out. He never even thought it was going to be an arrowhead...he gasped to say the least.” Matt Patstone

Found in Southern California on February 24, 2010 by Keith Brown PG 18

Above is another beauty found by Matt Patstone on February 21, 2010, in a Southern California desertto-mountain transition area. Lying flat out on the surface after a rain, Matt spotted it from 15 feet away. It measures 2 ¼ inches, is bifacially worked, and is actually a dark green in color.

Straddling a farm field furrow with its tip slightly buried, Adam Agusti found this Kirk point on March 3, 2010 in Vermillion Co. Indiana. Made of Attica Chert, it measures 2 ¼ by 1 ½ inches.

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Richard Thompson of Morrisville, Missouri had this to say about this Feb 17, 2010 personal find: “First day of sunshine in quite a while, so I headed to a creek this afternoon, having found nothing good since a Dalton from three weeks ago. After about an hour of hunting, I spotted an edge in a buried gravel layer. It was sandwiched flat, in situ as it was deposited some 4000 years ago, but close to being eroded out and due to wash away in the next flood. I splashed some water on it to loosen it and found this attractive piece. It has the form and workmanship akin to a Table Rock, but lacks the basal grinding. I've seen this type found in close association with Late Archaic Smith type artifacts quite a few times. Some used to call these Stone Square Stemmed, but they are likely Smith points that have had numerous resharpenings that completely removed the ears. This one is fairly thin, well crafted, and is made of either an unusualcolored variety of Mozarkite, or maybe Chouteau chert.”

Found in early March of 2010 in a desert area, this yellowish/gold and black speckled arrowhead represents a very unique material for Southern California. Matt Patstone of Valley Center, California, invited his dad on his first arrowhead hunt. This is what Dad found on his very first hunt! Talk about beginner’s luck!

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Found by Keith Brown in a Southern California foothill valley

A beauty found in Southern California a couple years ago by Keith Brown

Lewis Smith of Greenville, Texas, found this tan-jasper point on April 10 this year when he spotted some wild hogs near the river. Although not obvious in the scan, Lewis says that he actually found the point on the edge of a hog track in four-inch -deep water where it was most likely stirred up by the hogs when they crossed the river!

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Here is some history. This late Paleo Cumberland point (10,000 years old) was photographed in 35 mm in 1996 by AACA member Charles Dycus when President Cliff Jackson found it in a plowed field in Moore County, North Carolina. These are the very first "in situ" pictures ever taken of any of Cliff’s finds from over forty years of hunting. Not long after Cliff found it, this point was published several times. However, these in situ pictures have never been published. The AACA Magazine is proud to have the privilege of publishing this fine old artifact once again. Look closely at the Cumberland and the nickel and you will see the impression of the point where it was imbedded in the sand. Here is what Cliff had to say about one of the pictures you see above: “The one with the cheesy grin is me and my new find, a rare complete undamaged NC rhyolite Cumberland Paleo point.”

An outstanding shaft straightener found by Matt Patstone on March 26, 2010, in Southern California

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Found by my son David on April 23, 2010 in Southern California. Before picking it up, I told him it looked like a broken tip from a larger piece that had been reworked at the base to make it a small arrow point. At least that’s what we were hoping for! Alas! The base had not been retouched…..just a broken tip….but very nice quartz material. That’s all we found from a 166 mile round trip and a vigorous hike in and out of the area. But the temperature was around 60 degrees and the whole area was in bloom. The landscape above is within a half mile of where he found the tip. We enjoyed these views all day long!

Both of these outstanding specimens were found in early June of 2010 at a dig site in Vanderpool, Texas, organized by Guy Cuccio of Crowley, Louisiana.

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Whoa! What’s that in that tire track

Well, I’ll be darned! It’s an track running along Center Creek? A early archaic bifurcate!

Found on April 12, 2010, by Gary Henson of Poway, California, while visiting his ol’ stompin’ grounds in Lawrence Co., Missouri. He spotted it about 50’ from the creek. Center Creek in Missouri.

Matt Patstone sent in these pictures. He made a trip to southern Utah in October of 2010 and hunted some private property. His traveling friend, Keith Brown, found this!

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Pictures above submitted by Matt Patstone. Two San Diego County points found by a friend of his.

This excellent desert series point was found by Matt Patstone on August 1, 2010 on a Southern California desert floor. It represents one of those arrowhead stories you don’t want to hear from your hunting “bud.” Here is what Matt had to say about this find: “My neighbor and I went out to the desert today and his footprints were all around this point, but he never saw it. A few minutes later when I walked through "his" area I saw it and could hardly believe my eyes...perfect, all there as the day it was made and multi-colored.”

Editor’s note: Can you see the trail or furrow in the soil to the left of the in situ pic above? That’s where Matt’s friend was dragging his flipping stick!

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Found in early October of 2010 in a Southern California mountain area by Dale Boettcher

Colorful Flint Ridge Corner Notch found by Robert Dills on 9-26-2010 in Wayne County, Ohio near Orrville

Coshocton Archaic Corner Notch found

by Robert Dills in Wayne County, Ohio

Fine Levanna Triangle arrow point found on 6-2-2010 by Robert Dills in Stark County, Ohio

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A GALLERY OF ANIMAL IN SITUS The Critter Gallery

In late February of 2010 Matt Patstone of Valley Center, California made two personal finds - a drilled bead and this cute little fella’! The bead went home; this guy stayed put.

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San Diego County Deer at 4800 feet in early March 2010.

Those fields were lush green by the second week of April.

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Sunset picture taken on 12-25-08 by Ron Clough of Maryland’s Eastern Shore

S. Stangland spotted these baby Hummingbirds right outside a rock shelter and only chest high on a branch!

A stocky Red Diamond Rattler photographed in San Diego County mountainous terrain by Matt Patstone on April 2, 2010. Look closely and you will see a second head of a smaller female in back.

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No More Chickens !

In late March of 2010 Matt Patstone sent in the following account regarding this bobcat (blind in one eye): “I thought you might get a kick out of this...About six months ago my boys were going out to feed our chickens when they saw a cat eating the last of our three chickens. They had no idea it was a bobcat. I left the door to the coop open at night hoping he would leave, but he was a happy camper right there. I finally called animal rescue that specialized in bobcats to come and get him. They were planning on releasing him back into the wild, but unfortunately he had some kind of infection and they had to put him down.”

On a chilly spring day in early April a hiker placed this “Phrynosoma Coronatum Blainvillii” on top of a post to soak up some rays in Mission Trails Park in San Diego. There are 14 species of horned lizards (horny toads) in the U.S., with both Texas and Wyoming having them as their state reptiles. Also known as the “horned frog,” it is the mascot for Texas Christian University.

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Early last summer Henry and Margaret English were entertained for hours by these four young armadillos that showed up in their front yard and flower garden. The critters reside in Woodville, Texas, 50 miles south of Lufkin and 50 miles north of Beaumont.

Gorgeous Shoal Creek in Newton County, Missouri. This spotted bass was enticed to the boat in early 2010 by Gary Henson. The creek also harbors smallmouth and largemouth.

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Gary Henson made a second trip to Shoal Creek in October of 2010

In early June of 2010, while visiting some old high school friends who live in the Osage Hills, north of Tulsa (Skiatook to be exact), your editor captured this doe sneaking through their back yard.

Shield Bug Adult

Shield Bug Nymphs

Have you ever seen one of these or something similar? These are Shield Bugs photographed by the editor in a San Diego County mountain meadow on October 21, 2010 while hunting points. There are hundreds of species of these critters. They are in the stink bug family (pentatomidae) and are named because of their many shapes that resemble shields. In general, they suck juices from plants for their sustenance. The ones in San Diego County are often found on Milk Weed, as evidenced by the pictures.

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This show is not limited to North American relics only, and the show committee welcomes dealers of Precolumbian and Old World artifacts - with an emphasis on authenticity. Mark your calendars now for the 1st weekend in April, and come join us and your fellow relic collector friends as we all have a grand time in Kentucky at the 2011 National Artifact Expo!

Show Admission: $3.00 2 Day Show Pass $5.00 April 2 - 8 am. to 4 pm. April 3 - 8 am. to 3 pm.

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