South Georgia Man Has Prolific Arrowhead Collection
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- It’s not uncommon for farmers to uncover arrowheads and other Native American artifacts in the course of their work. But one South Georgia man has taken arrowhead collecting to a whole new level, and has a very prolific collection. Ray D’Alessio explains.
I've been hunting arrowheads for 32 years. I live in the state of Indiana, we find a lot of banded slate artifacts and hard Stone axes. I've been a flintknapper for 30 years. I always wondered how they made them? So I learned and now I can make anything I want. I also learned how to work hard stones and slate. It's helped me a lot on points and projectiles. I can look at a projectile and tell you why they stopped and what went wrong. I don't mix reproductions with the authentic ones. I am a member of the Indiana archaeological Society. I show my reproductions at the authentic shows so people out there are aware of people like me. For some reason people think we can't make them today. No offense to the Native Americans but you don't have to be an Indian to know how to flintknap. The hardest thing I have found to make so far is a Danish dagger. This man has a fantastic collection. I don't show my authentic points I don't want nobody to know what I have and fear of theft. I farm a lot of ground I find most of them from my tractor. The snow just melted here so it's time to go hunting. I hope everybody has a nice day and good luck hunting
I live in Delaware County Indiana and have found lots of arrow heads, spear points,celts,ax heads and shallow stone bowls and 1 game ball. I remember when you could set them out in display proud of your awsome finds,but now I hide them for fear of someone breaking in and stealing them. Like everyone used to have their gun cabinets out in living room, now we have to have big expensive gun safes.
Can't wait to hit the fields after the spring thaw.
Y'all have that nice material up there,alot of our stuff in south central Bama is quartz with some flint/chert pieces mixed in. Lots of what we find here,we call ugly because it's ugly compared to most places. There is some nice stuff around but few and far between. Good Luck!
I am proud to say that I know this man, Johnny Dickerson. He is a fine gentleman but I haven't seen him in about 25 years. He always performs any tasks with hard work and conviction. Unless his children are interested in this collection, it will probably be donated to some museum - maybe the Smithsonian Institution. What a great person.
The Smithsonian don't want them field grade pooters.
He can donate them to me…… I would love to be the caretaker and the one to pass these historical artifacts on to the next generation to look upon and appreciate what went into each and every one of those fine crafted points the ancient hands last touched hundreds if not thousands of years ago.
The point is what allowed these people to survive and thrive and protect themselves with.
The point you unearth may have passed
through an animal that fed that person that day and was never retrieved from the earth until you the fortunate come along and find it thousands of years later.
@@bigbensarrowheadchannel2739 clown
most Native American Indian tribes only require 116th minimum some as much as 25% DNA Heritage proof. but if you have that much you're entitled to subsidaries and Financial Native American Income
I really hope that one of his children or grandchildren becomes a serious collector and inherits the collection.
It would be a great responsibility I think.
That Unibrow he had back in the day in the service uniform was just as amazing as his collection
thought the same thing 😁
lmao was lookin for this comment xD
And he’s still got it.
😂
That is one nice collection. Nice to have a passion you enjoy and can share with others
This is an amazing collection! I've only got 8 arrowheads myself. Only got permission to search 2 farms. Neither are close to water, but still manage to find a few! What I really appreciate about finding these is that you're rediscovering ancient history. Someone took time to make each and every one of those. Hundreds of generations over thousands of years, and I haven't got a single arrowhead that looks like another. Each one possibly coming from a different craftsman.
I have a collection of arrowheads, myself. A lot are so artistically formed, that you would think a jeweler could be the only person who could make it. An old indian with 60 years experience, maybe. And then, there are the god ugly arrowheads, which I can only imagine was made by a Native American child, who was first learning to make one. Maybe even his first arrowhead.
But, they are all majestic, beautiful, and mysterious, regardless of workmanship.
Doesn’t mean there wasn’t water at one time. Underground springs pop up and disappear all the time
He has quite a collection . You can hear the passion he has for collecting . I fully understand how he feels , I have bee collecting now for over 40 years . Still get excited when I find and arrowead .
I’ve never found one. Guess I don’t know where to look
@@humboldtharry4248 find a river that's been around a long time going to Farmers field at the top of the hill and you'll find them
I worked with a man that has over 1000 and maybe more! He has found piece pipes!
Here in Arizona it's illegal to take artifacts from archeological sites...
@@johnganshow5536 Not so long as it’s a private site and not public.
His comment about being drawn to or feeling the energy from the arrowheads gave me goosebumps. I have the same experience when I’m out looking for artifacts and have swept back leaves knowing it was right there. Happy hunting brothers and sisters!
@boossers same when I’m looking for women!
something told me when i was 12 to dig down in one area pretty far in the field and i never really went back in that particular area. i dig in the spot that i was drawn to with a shovel and about 4 scoops later i find an arrowhead!!! i was so happy and i really wanted one. i guess someone heard me
Can’t agree more, swear my choctaw ancestors kinda nudge me to pick them up. I find them deer hunting just looking down on my buddies land.
@@cappystrano1 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Vision has at least 2 levels, 1 is conscious the other is autonomous. The conscious level is high detail, the unconscious is low detail, works with more primitive part of brain. Most commonly noticed when you walk upon a snake, you flinch before you consciously recognize the snake.
I’m a firm believer in getting the sense or feeling that I’m about to find one. It’s happened many times for me
Ive been hunting for 25 plus years in NE Arkansas and still love going every chance i get. Raining right now and will be in the fields at daylight. Its where i get my peace of mind.
Mark Woods What part of NE AR? I scout row crops in NE AR and we find them pretty regularly.
Re connecting with ancestors
I have my Dad's collection from Tifton GA, and a few I found as a boy just north of Atlanta and one from NC. But just a fraction of what this man has. It's amazing to hold a point in you're hand and think of the person that made it so long ago. And you're the first person to touch it in a couple hundred years or 10,000 years. Nice video.
Very impressive. They say, in ancient times, that a great unibrow was birthed and eventually a baby came forth from it and then a man to grow into such. For such a man, great gifts are bestowed such as divining water and locating special stones. It is from the ancients and the only explanation for this gift. I am humbled
I think we've lost focus on what's truly amazing in this video. That unibrow is beyond unique and amazing! Wow
One heck of a collection. Those few Cahokia points got my heart racing. Amazing!
I feel like I am the only 14 year old who is still interest in ancient Indian artifacts I’ll post them showing my collection and people ask what they are!! 😂
You're a smart guy; history is fantastic.
Same but I'm 15
*The arrowheads are amazing, but what it is even more shocking is that this guy has been sporting a "Unibrow" eyebrow his whole life!*
That's one hell of an eyebrow
This guy's collection and reverence for the artifacts is amazing! But, what I found the most amazing is how he explains "feeling" the arrowhead before he sees it. If one has an expertise in any certain subject or craft, what he is talking about is relatable. The human mind is amazing and what we have here is a clear example of the subconscious's ability to take in far more information than our relatively myopic(or hyper focused) conscious.
Damian O no just no...
I liked that, too, and have experienced it myself. I have never found an arrowhead, but when hunting gemstones and sharks teeth it has happened.
Breathtaking. Saving history!
The collection is sure to raise a brow.
I feel that you do not find points,they are given to you. Respect them always, thanks
You ars so right! I always thank the spirit of the maker for leading me to his creation. Love your philosophy.
I don't know how to word this, I do look for them, I looked up in the sky, and it was a beautiful sunset to the west and I looked down on the ground to the east, the nicest brownest, arrowhead I've ever found, explain that? cuz I can't
@@johnwilkening5262 Voodoo!!!!!!
great way to view it !
Ur dead on. The spirit of the indian that last touched that 'head' u are releasing back into its other realm. Or something to that effect. I remember before I picked up my first one that, my buddy stopped me and said "hey man, you see what you are about to pick up is something that no one has touched in about 10,000 years. And it's sacred. You are releasing that mans soul free or soul into itself. " He exclaimed some deep shit at that moment. Hell, I went to Nashville to make a record and came back with an arrow head collection and a even bigger passion for finding real artifacts. I love it. I love them. I want to find more and more. I want to know more. I am addicted to them. The spirit it releases into me when I pick one up and the person's spirit I release is a feeling for me now. Funny, I ponder the last moments of the person who dropped there and why they dropped it there or what made them leave it there.
Have seen this before and must have forgotten to like it. Just saw an article in a magazine about him. Great story and very true 👍
That's a nice collection for me it's like I'm a kid every time I go it's like the first time when I find one just like the first one been doing it for 30 years thanks
My grandma grew up in Missouri circa 1920’s, when her dad plowed the field they would find a lot of arrowheads and animal shaped artifacts. She said they would be Bears, Deer, turtles, birds (probably eagles) and others, they were bigger than her hand she said. I heard they were called fetish, or spirit animal guides. I would love to have some of those.
I have some animal stones that I have found over the years from Michigan, Ohio, south Carolina, Georgia and Florida the are called effig stones east of the Mississippi I believe they are called fetishes in the southwest. I have birds, buffalo, bear, turtles, wolves, coyotes or fox but my favorite one is a 2 headed alligator. I found the 2 headed alligator stone in a creek in North Florida that runs through my grandparents property about 15 years ago.
@@joshsmith7176 That’s amazing. Thanks for the story.
@@joshsmith7176 that's awesome
I’m sure you’ve heard of these places, but check out Rock Eagle and Rock Hawk. They are Effigy Mounds not far from where I live here in Georgia.
Take care
Incredible collection thanks for sharing
Those are not arrowheads. Those are spear points. Arrowheads, or more specifically, bird arrow points, are shaped differently and a quarter of most the size of spear points. Spear points, depending on intended use, differed significantly in size, as seen in the video.
Very true...but Arrowhead is just a general known term to everyone
I’ve been looking and collecting my entire life and maybe have 2 dozen. One time in Tx on a bowhunt I went for a 2 hour walk just looking. Found 3!
Growing up in the country I found a few arrowheads in the road ditch after a good rain. I kept them in my junk drawer with my marbles and other kid's stuff, until one day a girl I liked came over and I was showing them to her. Out of the blue she asked if she could have them. I really didn't want to give them up, but I wanted her for a girlfriend so I gave them to her. Shortly after she started going steady with the football quarterback and hardly even talked to me anymore. GOLD DIGGER!
Shoulda smacked her
You're not the only one that happened too
Amazing collection… an even more amazing uni-brow
My granddaddy farmed south Alabama his entire life and he had an awesome arrow head collection. He had axe heads and a really cool spear head as well. As a kid when we went to visit we would walk the fields and look for arrow heads. Lots of fun while growing up.
Fabulous collection
Very dedicated collector
When I was probably 10 years old, I was in our 1/2 acre family garden one day and found about a 4” spear head. It was pure white flint. I was so excited! I ran to the house and was washing it off, and dropped it in the sink. It broke in half. That’s been over 50 years ago. I don’t remember what I did with it after that. Just recall being very disappointed.
Never know what you’re going to find when you BROWS the net.
That's right, its like a box of chocolates
Browse
😂🤣😂ur mean
@@ericschooff268 swoosh- right over your head
@@ladyJustis I didn’t watch the whole video, my bad 😆
When I was a kid I used to follow my grandfather's plow. Arrowheads and spear points were numerous. Did that till a hornets nest got turned over and from looking onto ground I walked into it. Almost died from them looking like a balloon 😂🤣 . Anyway good video
Good thing he is not trying to collect these in Wash. State as he could lose them all and spend some time in jail and pay a hefty fine. People used to collect points along the Columbia River and other streams but no longer.
To touch something that no one else has touched in 500 years..thats the Passion that makes Life worth Living! What a Great Man. He has a Soul and is in touch with it.
I come back to this video every few months to watch since I discovered it a few years ago, I think anyone who walks and collects Arrowheads and Artifacts can Really Appreciate the Awesomeness Of This Amazing Collection and Can Really Appreciate His Love For Headhunting and to All You Headhunters Out There GL&HH
I knew a man who lived near Lumpkin Ga whose father owned thousands of acres of land that they farmed. My friend said he could walk across a freshly plowed field and pick up dozens of arrowheads. He had an enormous collection.
Getting ones collection stolen takes the wind out of you!!! A big punch in the gut!!!
Walk East too west and back at different times of the day season.
They shine ! Flint !
Outstanding collection! How hard is it to find land that you won’t get shot for walking it lol? I’m retired and wanting a hobby, this excites me very much, any advice would be appreciated. Randy from Newnan GA
why you all got to hate on this man?
With all of those sharp edges one would think he could shave that unibrow.
I had a huge collection until someone decided they needed it more than me.
He almost said we started going to auctions...bahaha.
Good catch.
Yup I caught that too!! Smh
People around here goto farm equipment/ farm animal auctions quite regular.
That collection is amazing. I can relate to his passion and feelings of being drawn by Native spirits. However, I believe he will find that most of what we see in that video are not arrowheads. They are way too large and heavy to be arrowheads…and are more likely to be spearheads or part of some kind of tool used by Native Americans. In fact, I believe I saw tools that were used as a type of “drill” hanging on his wall.
I hope he has a good security system because he truly has a very valuable collection there. Awesome!
I always got yelled at by my dad when I would jump off the tractor to grab rocks or things I would see growing up. I found most of mine when we were planting or picking tobacco. Now after spending 12 years in the Marine Corps and 5 deployments when I start to get stuck in bad memories I go hit our fields and just start to walk and find all kinds of amazing things.
I’ve been hunting arrowheads for 24 years and I have felt the same way he explains every time since the beginning. I’m holding something no one has for hundreds or thousands of years. A survival tool, and labor of necessity and love from someone long ago. It’s humbling to find them
We have hundreds if not thousands of native American earthen mounds in my home state of La. The greatest Arrow Head collection I ever saw was the one displayed at Poverty Point, La.
I have found most of my personal arrowheads and pottery shards on elevated "islands" of land along bayous and tidal creeks (beware of venomous snakes in warmer months).
Poverty points collection is indeed very large.
The biggest I ever saw was from a private collection of Vietnam vet in Franklin Parish, La
Oh yes, I remember all too well the Arrow-Heads my older Siblings gathered back in the 50's in the Kanab, Utah area.
A lot of Gary points in his collection. Some of those are only a few hundred years old. Caddo Indians, if I remember right. Collecting artifacts was an obsession of mine in my youth. It can be very habit forming. First time you find a Paleo period point is like finding a gold nugget.
Oops! wrong video. Let's see what this guy has. Sorry for the confusion.
robert michael we had Creek Indians in Georgia where he is. I never heard of Caddo?
@@ericchristian6710 Caddo homeland was sw Arkansas, nw Louisiana, NE TX, and SE Oklahoma. Not Georgia. And most of these points in this video were made before we knew the names of tribes. Mostly woodland period projectile points were in this video. Mississippi culture, mound builders.
So amazing I have a huge collection myself
I run heavy equipment land clearing And road building here in Marion county FL I find tons of these and around ft.mccoy and orange springs area we find a lot of civil war items but arrow head's are by far my favorite to find
Came for the Arrowheads, stayed for the Uni-brow
I dont like the comments most people gave. If you can't say something nice just dont say anything.
Great Hobby! When I was you , living in Oglethorpe, GA. the man across the street
collected arrowheads. He would gather a group of us boys and head out to a field
after a rain. It would not be unusual for us to fill up a Number Two washtub in a day.
I ended up with a good collection, which was later stolen. Sad, but true.
Chill out dude! No need for that language here on RUclips. Mr. Edwards was a good example for us kids. I will choose not take issue with you over something that I observed over sixty years ago, We would go after the field was plowed, rained on
and had some sun. I do not think any of the group
ended with your attitude. .
@@Dougarrowhead I do not have all that land, and my family did not farm, with the exception of my mother's side. (and that was with a mule) I am a Grandson of a Confederate Veteran and used to hunt with a 58 cal Black Powder. FFg. I am a nobody and do not brag. Hunting rule number one = If I kill it I eat it (that has saved a lot of humans.
A man that knew arrowheads like he did was sure to teach us what an arrowhead looked like. LOOK I respect your love for the hobby
and don't know what kind of axe you have to grind. But no longer will respond ...OK@@Dougarrowhead As they say down here in the swamp...Have a blessed day...OUT
@ 1:40 My theory is that extra bit of eyebrow the man has helps shade that much better so he can spot all the arrowheads a non browed person would have missed!
Cool to hear he is lower Creek, my grandmother is lower Creek from the Wind clan.
Where were the lower Creek located?
Id give anything to find a few. I had a lot and my x boy friend took them over 30 years ago and I offered to pay him to have MY arrowheads back. No luck. I have about 6 now which is a far cry from the 200+ that I had. Id pay to go somewhere and be able to find even 10 so my daughter can have that experience. I still to this day have dreams about my other ones and im almost 50. It is literally a heartbreak to have those gone. Was worth it to get rid of the bf though I guess lol.
I wish I could find a nice gal to hike around and look for points!!!!!
@@thomasfoss9963 let's go
Angel---We have Visitors!!!
@@thomasfoss9963 I'm a little scared of them.. Should I be?
@@angeliquesin7929 Lol-No I'll protect you!!!! Wherever you are!!??
How much did that glass table display case cost I wonder......
Didn't know that there was a State named South Georgia !
After 50 years of searching i finally found my arrowhead! One and only one
And iv only found one
The great spirit & life's guide shines on this man & his ancestors. shundahai brother
What really matters is marking where the artifacts were found. This will help us understand how our ancestors lived and where they moved. Southeastern Creek Indians are unique and more is being learned about them every day. Keep a record of where you find artifacts.
Go find your own and you can mark the location.
These artifacts came way before the creek Indians you talk about
Just imagine how many arrowheads were made and used over the years.
I've heard, that the native Americans would not use a point found on the ground, or already made by another native American. Something about the arrowhead maker's spirit residing in it.
It's truly amazing the number of points and tools made from flint and stone NOT made by what today's society portrays as Native American Indians (they had Winchesters) but Made Humans of the Woodland, Archaic, Paleo to Neanderthals and as far back as the Ice Age that are still in great numbers being found to this day. .. what you find out in the field is alot older than one thinks
I don't know what's more impressive- the collection or the fact they grow crops in that sand.
In South ga alot of fields are Sandy like that
Hence the “coastal plains “
I've tried to go hunt for relics but when i do people think im on drugs. For that reason I dont go anymore. I wish it wasn't that way.
Just because crack heads dig in the ground and take cars apart doesn't mean everyone that digs is on them
I found one when I was 14 in 1978 . We were picking up big Rocks out of the field before we planted.
man I'm the same way love your collection thanks for showing.
There are no artifacts around where I live because no natives ever lived here. I have to go 75-miles in either direction. The only places I've ever found with artifacts are plowed fields after a rain, and it's getting increasingly harder to get farmers that will allow strangers to tromp over their crop fields. As far as creeks go, the same streams running around or even though the crop fields have never produced anything.
You're just too dumb to find them
Does he ever find Civil War relics? The curator of the Ornamental Metal Museum of Memphis told me that after a rain in Italy you’ll be walking an open field and tripping over swords of the Roman Legions.
mighty fine...thanks
This guy reminds me of my grandad. He used to collect arrowheads on his farm in shelbyville. He'd glue them to the masonry around the house, I still have a sack of them.
NICE 👍
That huge unibrow is his third (inner) eye.
Finally some good news
ive been collecting forty years nice to see another great collection
Can I pay you for one I don’t have one yet
I live near the Blue Licks Battlefield, I have a huge collection myself. I have spear points,flint knives,arrowheads,atals,celts,tomahawks, pottery etc. Notjing like a find. When spring floods come up run the creeks,when tobacco farmers turn fields flock to them and you'll be successful. Nothing like the feeling of a find
Nice collection I hope to catch up to him
I was raised in the South East, you cannot walk a river without seeing arrowheads, just look down. I found tens as a child and was not even trying.
On my wish list to find an arrowhead. Awesome collection and thanks for sharing.
Awesome video
Does this man have an email?
Now, I'm 14 I live in Kansas and I have hours of free time, its the summer. I wonder how fast I could find 100
I have an old arrow-head also
I’m thinking of a word.....a word that rhymes with puny cow 🐮
I can't get over how they seem endless, as he says! Got a field where I'm at that I've got few hundred out of and keep finding them there, is hard to believe! What I've realized is these special spots must've been camps or settlements! What this fellow has that I don't is he owns those fields and can plow whenever he wants, I can only get 1 or 2 hunts a season! Great job!!
Looks like my grandpas house he has big showcases built into the wall
that is a impressive collection. I'm in North Georgia and would like
to come down and hunt with you. I have a few hundred but most are quartz. let me know
I shed hunt and I feel that sensation of when your about to find one it’s very weird and spiritual
So, are these like shot gun shells ?? Or, they lost their arrow during hunt.
Fantastic!
Must have been alot of Native americans over the centuries fighting on those fields
I found exactly one arrowhead on a road trip at the Indiana border in a field pit stop but he's the one to go to with advanced photonics for sure, what a real genius of observer empiricism and inherited memory he is, we can see the creators of these arrowheads come into shape via holographics before our eyes.. & then afterwards everyone can come & see my Devonian fossil collection with advanced photonics as well :D
You don't find arrowheads they find you
My late daddy wore glasses, except when looking for arrowheads. I asked him doesn't everything look blurry, Dad? He said, yeah, everything but the arrowheads.
I would be interested in purchasing your collection. Please let me know.
My friend, I never imagined that someone had a collection of these dimensions. It is something incredible and extraordinary. I get married in the desert of Baja California Sur, Mexico and I can't find those big clovis points, nor daltons, nor many types that you have there. Congratulations and blessings to you.
Hey coyote it is a Awesome collection,I come back and watch this every few months for inspiration
@Bucky Blue Eyes This is my friend, I have already seen her several times, but we have to have what we can have. Little by little a collection grows. Greetings my friend.
@@coyotearrowheadhunting3083 Yes Clovis points are rare at least they are for me since I've found tons of regular ones and not a single Clovis.
They call him Big chief one brow 😜
My freind just found a stone skull on her property here in north ga.. Who do we contact to look at the age n worth of it? N omg what an awesome collection this is... Just unreal..
Cory Causey does she still have the relic ?
This man has the most impressive eyebrow I’ve seen in awhile! He definitely has an awesome collection.