Mississippi Arrowhead Hunters Official Website
This website is dedicated to the arrowhead hunters and artifact collectors everywhere featuring artifacts from Mississippi and Alabama as well as other locations in the Southeast US. My goal from the outset is to make this website informative, educational, interesting and entertaining and I hope that reading these webpages will take you on a journey of adventure, allowing you to experience the fun and the thrill of finding lost artifacts. I hope you enjoy your visit here and that you find the information contained on Mississippi Arrowhead Hunters.com will inspire you to explore nature and to find some lost artifacts. The artifacts contained in the website were mostly found in creek beds.......nature had removed these points from their original place of deposition during floods and high water to the creek bed. None of the artifacts shown are associated with ancient American Indian burials and I do not advocate or condone the disturbance of these sacred sites. My goal is to advance the appreciation of ancient American Indian Cultures that have been here in North America for thousands of years. I admire these great early American people and their diversity among the various tribes and have made a study of these peoples since I was a pre-teenager. As many of you have heard, last year I was in discussions with The History Channel about hosting a new television series titled "Searching For Lost Artifacts." Those negotiations ended last fall with the New York Based production company and a host from England has been chosen to do the first season. But thanks for all those good wishes extended by my friends with hopes that I would be the first season host.
Ray Vaughn, Artifact Hunter
Mississippi Arrowhead Hunters
Ray Vaughn, Artifact Hunter Founder-Mississippi Arrowhead Hunters |
New Finds
Recent finds News: Mississippi Killer G10 point found near Meridian in Lauderdale Co., East Central Mississippi.
A Tallahatta Quartzite Lost Lake and it's a handful.
Creek location of Lost Lake Point (above) find. Shallow rocks and sand and off the beaten path because of it's size.
New pot found in Northwest Mississippi. Minor cracks. Beautiful piece.
Southeastern Indian Chunky Player Note the similarity to the Maya design |
A Very Rare Rabbit Effigy Pot-Lee County, MS. A piece
from my personal collection since 1972. Beautiful condition.
7 Inch D x 5 In. H
7 Inch D x 5 In. H
Sometime point hunters have pretty good luck and find a few artifacts. Sometimes even a killer. Sometimes you find just broken pieces or only a few flakes. We never know when we will walk up on something new that may be an awesome find or new discovery. Or an extremely rare artifact. One of my favorite experiences was on a hunt with Rex Anderson and my son Jason. While walking down a small creek, we stopped on a rock bar. As we were standing there looking around at the rock bar, I looked down and noticed that Rex, who was standing beside me, was standing on a large flat piece of quartzite partially exposed in the sand. I said, Rex move over and let me pick up that point. He stepped aside and I picked up a massive creek stained Bascom point. On a return trip, Eddie Spears found it's twin at the same location. This location also produced a large Pickwick and a 6.5 In. Kirk and these three very large points are now in my collection.
Recently I had an unanticipated experience while artifact hunting in North Alabama. Having walked and dug on a creek for 2 days finding nothing but chips, I was mentally preparing myself for another let down. It appeared that the area in which I was searching was not going to produce any artifact finds. Then, within 5 minutes of preparing myself for a findless outing, I discovered a cave at the base of a bluff with points lying at the entrance and many more under the surface of the cave floor. Wow......what a turn-around of luck. I went from total let down to my greatest find to date when I was about to give up on this location for good. Read the full story of the North Alabama Cave site.
There are huge quarry sites for Tallahatta quartzite in east central Mississippi and West central Alabama. Tallahatta stone is abundant in the rock strewn and hard bottomed streams and can be found in sizes from small pieces to larger boulders embedded in creek beds. Along the eroding creek banks thick layered outcroppings off Tallahatta quartzite can be seen and ancient quarry marks are visible where the ancient indians once quarried this stone for their tools. The stream beds here are a combination of sand, soapstone, hard clay bottom, limestone and sometimes even solid ledges of Tallahatta quartzite and usually not very deep. Many Paleo and Archaic points are found in the creeks beds of this area having been washed in long ago from flooding waters that sweep and erode the creek banks along which ancient camp sites were once located. With this abundance of lithic tool resource material, there is no limit to quality, quanity and the size of stone artifacts and tools that were produced by the ancient Indians who once lived in this area. The Pickwick point above is a 6.5 In. Tallahatta quartzite found recently in Choctaw county Alabama and is a fine example of the larger points found in the creeks of this area. If you've never handled one of these large Tallahatta points, you cannot imagine the size, weight and mass of these artifacts.
Beautiful Blue Translucent Tallahatta Quartzite Outcropping. |
The hills in east Mississippi and west central Alabama often coarse through Tallahatta quartzite outcroppings as shown in the picture left. This area has a heavy layer of Tallahatta quartzite that is a beautiful blue opaque and transluscent color with inclusions. The color varies somwhat from area to area. Creek pictured here is in Lauderdale Co., MS Photo submitted by
Small Creek East Central Mississippi with one of the many waterfalls that occur in this area |
Mississippi Arrowhead Hunters
7.5 In. Hamilton Spear Point
Large Citrus Basal Notch Point
North Florida
Big Florida Newman
5.5 Inches - Large blade
tapered point
New Awesome Snap Base Kirk
Big Clovis Preform Blade
Southeast Alabama
5 In. Clovis
Georgia
Wicked Bolen creek stained with transluscense
4.75 In Pickwick
Very Fine - Alabama
Massive Fairland blade
East Texas
Monster Florida Bolen plain
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Standing in a Lauderdale Co., Mississippi rock bottom Creek near the Chunky River 2005. On the day this photo was taken, we found about 35-40 points. This one creek has produced thousands of points. As you can see, the water is very shallow on this rock shelf that flows over a break to a short waterfall. Beautiful, crystal clear running water and shallow. Loaded with Tallahatta quartzite material and lots of medium to large Paleo to Archaic points.