I’ve scoured every plowed field around here looking for Indian artifacts like spear points. As you undoubtedly know, they’re made from stone.
Over the years, I’ve been asked several times if I use a detector.
I politely respond that I use the Mark I Eyeball.
When I was a kid I would look for arrowheads and occasionally find some. I was raised in rural northern Mississippi.
The best places to look for arrowheads and spear points is in freshly ploughed and harrowed fields, along a creek or river, right after a spring rain. They show up real well against the dark loamy earth and the rain makes them stand out..............
I grew up effectively on the Mescalero Apache reservation (and married my childhood sweetheart— an Apache woman who stated her intention to marry me when we were about six). I learned to make all sorts of stone tools.
We used to scatter them about to excite tourists who “find” them, until the BIA was so confused they thought some random field was an important ancient hunting ground.
No, it’s where we used to drink beer in high school and build bonfires.
If someone would invent a stone detector to help people find Indian arrowheads, he’d make a lot of money.