arrowheads

[canada]

I know I know off topic...

But being you all are avid outdoorsmen/women Im curious if you have or know of general areas to find arrowheads in sk.
I would like to take my kids out this next spring.  If it is private land the landowner is welcome to have them, we just want to look.  If anyone has any leads/contacts please send me a message.

now back to fishing.

[ran7ger]

 my grandpa used to take us out west of shellbrook on some friends land after they'd just plowed and we'd find one here and there along with the odd chunk of petrified wood.  i'm sure there's areas better than others but any freshly worked land would be a good place to start. 

[canada]

I agree  but most land now is zero till

I have some sweet pieces of pet wood from down s   one rancher told me to bring my truck down and hed fill it up lol

[Churchill River]

Canada, I have found 1/2 a dozen over the years (approx. 20 years), on the top side of the Frenchman, South of Shaunavon area.  We would walk the top side of the valley and throw rocks down the hill into the bush/trees to get the deer out.  Sometimes you didn't even have to throw rocks to get them out.  If you know were the old R.C.M.P. trail is that goes up the valley, we found the most West of that trail.  The land owner's last name is Clark, and he welcomed us every year.  We would enter his land from the hwy that goes South of Shaunavon.  When we would get to the bottom of the hill going down into the Frenchmen, we would go through a gate going to the East and work the bottom of the valley, and then drive up the R.C.M.P. trail and then work the top.  The trail is drivable with a 4X4.  Can't believe back in the old days that they used horses to go up the steepest area of the valley....lol.

[speckspotter]

I hate to be a wet blanket on this topic, but it is my understanding that archaeological artifacts are not supposed to be removed from the sites where they are found. An old archaeology professor was very passionate on this point. Once a projectile is taken, it loses its context in the bigger picture.

That being said, I have found a few, and picking the item up is awfully hard to resist. I have a 5,000 year old McKean point. All i could tell you about it, is that it came from around Humboldt. Not very exciting.....

[infecticide]

My Aunt and Uncle live 2 miles south of Strasbourg and they have a collection of arrow heads they've found in their garden.    The story is there used to be trading camp / post there, not sure if its true.

[AndyJ]

  As a teenager in the Nipawin area, we searched for points, awls and scrapers on a friends family farm on the North Saskatchewan River. The places where they had found most of them were in the small summer fallowed fields on level benches on the sides of the valley. Best locations were the bottoms of ravines after a rain. The family had thousands of them.

[canada]

wow that would be awesome to look there  trouble is no one tills anymore so tough to find unless windblown sand which is much more common down s

i bet if a guy drifted the sk river and stopped here and there to look and fish he would find both points and fish

maybe this summer   if anyone is interested let me know can float from pa and get a pickup somewhere downstream   bring the metal detectors also!

[Hard_H2O]

I know I know off topic...

But being you all are avid outdoorsmen/women Im curious if you have or know of general areas to find arrowheads in sk.
I would like to take my kids out this next spring.  If it is private land the landowner is welcome to have them, we just want to look.  If anyone has any leads/contacts please send me a message.

now back to fishing.

On the meateater podcast Steve Rinella interviewed an anthropologist. He talked about how damaging it is to archaeological sites to remove artifacts such as arrowheads.

Some people rebury them when they find them and that can be bad as well.

He talked about how the layers on an archaeological site tell a large part of the story and set the timeline for a site. Find an artifact such as an arrow point and rebury it or shove it back into moss even a few millimeters different from where you found it and it can throw the timeline off by a bunch.

He talked about catch and release. Making castings or taking pictures. Marking where you found it so you can re-find it with someone else. Taking a picture prior to moving an artifact so you know exactly where and how it was positioned.

Good Luck.

[canada]

good to know  ill only take pictures of them