Incredible find-Record arrowhead discovered in western Kentucky creek

Murray Ledger & Times ^ | 18 June 2010 | KYSER LOUGH

[Palter]

[Palter]

Clovis, Dragon slayer, epic.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

I smell a hoax.

[PuzzledInTX]

“...it's like a time warp. You wander back through time and think about when it was used and when it was lost”

He's right. Wow!

[353FMG]

Are you saying that it was made in China?

[linear]

“It’s worth as much as someone is willing to pay and as much as I am willing to take”

He understands economics better than Paul Krugman.

[Paine in the Neck]

I smell a hoax.

15,000 years in a creek bed and still pristine? I want to believe but I'm with you; it's too good to be true.

[Stevenc131]

I grew up in the Fla. panhandle, and it was common to find pieces of Indian pottery in old campsites close to some of the bays. However, if you went walking along freshwater creeks, you’d scare up far more water moccasins than Indian artifacts.

[Palter]

Lol. Same, for me, N. Central Fl, found many a sharks tooth over the years. As well as a few arrowheads.

[Poseidon]

More likely a spearhead than an arrowhead...

[Ecliptic]

My father in law has one about 2/3 that size found in Alabama.

[Bernard Marx]

I smell a hoax.

Me too. To find a complete undamaged point that's been eroded out in a rocky stream bed is highly unlikely. That point is in pristine condition with sharp edges where flakes were removed. The normal tumbling action of being washed in a stream would round those edges and probably break the thinnest parts.

[JPG]

What were they hunting? I thought dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago.

[Pessimist]

“it’s too good to be true.”

Not really. As he mentioned, the creek changes its course, dso it’s not like there was running water on it all the time.

Hey, flint, buried in mud...

Why not?

[sodpoodle]

http://www.flintknapping.com/Sales_Stone.htm

Wonder how you would flake/chip an arrow head from this raw material??

Could you age the finished product to appear pre-historic?

Hmmmmm/

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

“More likely a spearhead than an arrowhead...”

That's what I was thinking too. Also, if it were smaller, it would have been the head of an atlatl dart, rather than an arrow. Bows and arrows were much more recent technology.

[verum ago]

They're just feeling inadequate, that's all.


"Don't act like you're not impressed"

And you're completely right- it probably wasn't being tumbled continuous for 15k years. And it's not like nothing else (including fossils softer than stone) has ever been recovered intact from a stream bed before.

All that said, I'd still let experts decide after looking at it in person...

[BubbaJunebug]

No way...it has to be an arrowhead for Big Foot for sure...no hoax here. :)

[njslim]

Spear point not arrow head

Reporters are idiots....

[EternalVigilance]

Higgins was reluctant to specify where he found the clovis, but...

Hmmm...sounds like he found it on someone else's land.