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That field season in Oklahoma where I found the same arrowhead twice
I was digging test pits near a creek outside Tulsa last June. On day three I pulled out a really nice broken Clovis point, but I dropped it in the dirt and spent an hour searching before giving up. Two weeks later on the very last day I was backfilling that same pit and my trowel hit something hard. It was the same exact arrowhead I lost. I don't even know how that's possible unless the dirt just moved it around. Has anyone else ever lost and refound the same artifact in the same unit?
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abby_cooper6d ago
no way you found the actual same broken clovis point weeks later in the same pit. that's wild. i've lost plenty of stuff in the field but never had it come back like that. dirt does weird stuff though, i've had flakes disappear from a screen and then show up in my boot tread half a mile away. but a whole point reappearing is just bizarre.
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flores.emma6d ago
That Clovis point finding itself again after two weeks is some kind of luck. I've had a similar thing happen with a fire cracked rock that I swore I had already pulled from a pit. It's weird how dirt can just swallow something and spit it back out later.
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felixhenderson6d ago
Ain't that the truth? I had a whole projectile point base vanish from my sorting tray last season, turned up two weeks later in the exact same spot after a rain. It's like the dirt just decides to play hide and seek sometimes, especially when you're working a sandy layer or a pit that's been disturbed. That kind of luck with a Clovis point though, that's something special. I've had rocks and chips do the same disappearing act, but a whole broken point is a whole other level of weird. Good to hear you got it back though, those finds are too rare to just lose to the ground.
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wood.uma6d ago
Wait, didn't you say it was the same pit but also that it was after a rain? Those are two different things. I've had stuff vanish in sandy soil too, but it's usually just the dirt settling and covering it up again, not the dirt playing games with me. That Clovis point thing is wild though. I had a little scraper do the same thing once in a gravel layer, found it three days later under a rock I swore I already flipped. Dirt must just have a mind of its own in certain spots.
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