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Paleo Pages |
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These pages contain artifacts, relics, tools and arrowheads specific
to the Paleo time era, which was the very first period in time that
the Native American Indians inhabited the New World (The North
American Continent) These are the oldest artifacts to be found in
the United States, and are from the Clovis / Folsom era. (See the museum page for dates) |
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Archaic Pages |
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These pages contain artifacts and arrowheads specific to the Archaic
period which lasted for 7,000 years. (see the museum page for dates)
One major characteristic of the Archaic period was the introduction
of "notches" to arrowheads and since this period covers such a broad
time span, more different "types" of arrowheads can be attributed to
this era than any other era. |
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Other Periods Pages |
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Artifacts and arrowheads from all other time eras (other than Paleo
and Archaic), such as the Woodland period are collectively grouped
on these pages for the entire North American Continent. |
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Big Blades Pages |
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These pages list larger knife blades, typically over 6" in length
from all over the world. |
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Anasazi Pages |
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This page contains an offering of all sorts of artifacts specific to the Anasazi tribal culture; including pottery, arrowheads,
tools, baskets, beads, clay figures and many more items specific to
this culture. |
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Far West Pages |
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Formerly listed as "Great Basin" pages, these contain artifacts and
arrowheads specific to the Far Western States of California, Oregon,
Washington, Nevada, and the westernmost regions of Idaho and Utah. |
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Columbia River Pages |
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These pages offer a great variety of arrowheads and other stone
tools which come from the Columbia River and it's many tributaries
in Northern Oregon and Washington. The Columbia River is well know
for it's exotic rock types and this beauty is reflected in artifacts
from this area. Many of the arrowheads and other relics found
in these parts were made from colorful petrified wood, and a rainbow
of agate materials not to be found anywhere else in the world. |
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Gulf Coastal Pages |
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These pages contain arrowheads and other artifacts specific to the Florida / Georgia
regions. Many of the relics listed on these pages are river-salvaged
items of colorful red and orange Coastal Plains Chert. |
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Gem Points Pages |
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Arrowheads listed on these pages are either made from very colorful
and beautiful materials, often having unusual "patterns" OR, they
are of a high quality of craftsmanship, or both ! Basically the best
of the best qualify to appear on these pages |
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Bone, Shell (and Ornamental Stone) Pages |
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These pages contain a wide variety of mostly "decorative" and
ornamental artifacts made from bone, shell or incised stone. Some of
the ancient artifacts listed on these pages are abalone shell pendants, and incised,
decorative stone items, drilled stone pendants,
stone effigies
(animal and human), clay effigies,
earplugs, banner stones, bone and stone jewelry
items, shell and stone
gorgets, bone, stone and pottery
gaming pieces
such as game ball and gambling pieces, bone whistles and tubes, hair
pins.
stone pipes
and Cloud
Blowers. For other "decorative" items, please
see our Indian Beads page
and for other Bone Items which were used as tools, such as bone
wedges and bone awls, please see our Bone
Tools pages. |
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Bone
Tools Pages |
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These pages contain a wide variety of all sorts of functional tools
and weapons made from bone. Some of the
ancient tools listed on these pages are Bone Awls, Harpoons, Bone
Arrowheads, Wedges and Pressure flaking tools. For "decorative"
and ornamental items made from Bone & Shells, please
see our Bone & Shell pages. |
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Charmstones Pages |
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These pages contain California Charmstones which used to be on the
Bone, Shell and Ornamental Stone pages. For Desert Charmstones,
Crystals and Charmstones from other states, please see the
Bone,
Shell and Ornamental Stone pages. Charmstones have a similar sister
in the eastern states, where they are called "Plummets", although
the use for these was very different from the use for California
Charmstones |
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Flint Tools Pages |
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These pages contain flint, chert and other host stone's "knapped"
tools from all over the United States. An example of some of these
tools would be drills, knife blades, awls and scrapers. |
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Axes and Stone Tools Pages |
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These pages contain axes, mauls, mortars, pestles, shaft
straighteners, steatite bowls, stone bowls, bolos, stone chisels, atlatl weights, celts, pecking stones,
pump-drill fly wheels, notched fishing weights as well as other "hardstone"
tools manufactured by the pecking and polishing process. |
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Pacific North West and Alaska |
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These pages contains artifacts from the Pacific North Western regions
including artifacts of Alaskan origin |
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Indian Beads |
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addition to the European glass trade beads, these pages also have
every other type of bead imaginable, from stone, shell, dentalium
and those made from metal components for use as a decorative
necklace as well as "beaded" items, such as intricately
beaded purses |
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Basketry and Perishables |
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These pages are comprised of woven baskets and ancient perishable
items. In addition to Basketry and Perishables, other items grouped on
this page are clothing articles (moccasins, etc.). |
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Old World and Foreign Countries Pages
(Pre-Columbian) |
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This page offers very ancient artifacts from the Old World (Africa
and Europe) as well as from other countries outside of the north
American continent. |
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Field Grade and Bargain Pages |
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These pages not only offer common or slightly damaged field grade
arrowheads, but also groups of nice arrowheads and artifacts at bargain prices. |
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Perishables |
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This page contains all sorts of perishable items such as woven
fiber footwear, clothing items, rope, baskets, etc. Most of these
were cave finds. |
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Pottery |
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This page contains pottery items in all of the various forms from
the Prehistoric, Proto-historic as well as the Historic eras. |
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The Bookstore Page |
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This page contains links for our customers to be able to purchase not only artifact
related books, but other books which cover the Native American's way
of life as well. We also publish a "book review" section on this
page for the books we recommend, as well as those which we advise
against. |
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Museum Page |
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museum page covers a very wide range of topics, and is informative
without getting too technical, in other words, the articles are
written in plain English!... I believe that no matter what level of
a collector you might be, there is something of interest for
everyone on this page. |
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Want List Page |
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This page is open for anyone to advertise for items they would like
to purchase for their own collection. You can purchase "rotating
slot advertisements" on this page for a minimal fee, and you can
change your advertisements each month if you like. |
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Feedback Page |
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This page contains candid and unsolicited feedback (BOTH positive
AND negative) which we have received from our customers over the
many years we've been in business. |
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Reciprocal Links Page |
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you operate an artifact or Native American Indian website and would
like to exchange reciprocal links with our website, this page has
all the tools and information you'll need to accomplish this. |
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How To Order Page |
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This page is worth visiting at least one time before you purchase
items from us, as it explains the entire ordering process. |
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Contact Us Page |
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This one has our mailing address, phone number and email link. |
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New Stuff Page |
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this page we show photographs of our latest release's offerings with
links to connect you to each respective page. We try to have a new release every 3 to 6 weeks, and
each new release normally consists of somewhere between 100 and 300
newly listed items. We always post the next scheduled release date
at the top of this page, once it has been determined. This page is
also used to inform customers of any newsworthy topics or other
information about this website. |
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Stolen |
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This page shows items which were reported as stolen, along with
information about the theft and whether or not the owner is offering
a reward for the items' return. |
