| As a hiker, runner and mountain bike enthusiast I have | | | | North American continent for no less than 10,000 |
| always loved the great outdoors and often when I | | | | years. If you consider the United States of America is |
| venture off the main trail to look at something of | | | | only a little over 200 years old you can imagine how |
| interest I will find an Indian arrowhead. For some | | | | long 10,000 years is. Some believe that there were |
| reason I tend to notice weird shaped rocks, it is very | | | | human beings living on the North American continent |
| fun to find old Indian arrowheads and I use to collect | | | | for as long as 80,000 years prior, although we cannot |
| them, but now I just leave them for someone else to | | | | prove it. |
| find because I think it is pretty cool. | | | | If you find an Indian arrowhead on the surface then |
| Since most arrowheads are made out of stone they | | | | chances are it is not that old. Perhaps it was buried |
| last a long time and they do not decompose in nature | | | | and then a storm and some erosion uncovered it. |
| like other things that man creates and leaves behind. It | | | | Nevertheless it is fun to find Indian arrowheads that |
| is interesting to wonder what the Indian was like who | | | | are triangular in shape and you can tell that they were |
| shot that narrow and if it missed its target or hit its | | | | chipped in to that shape by some type of tool. |
| target. Sometimes I wonder if the arrowhead was not | | | | Apparently human beings have come a long way |
| good enough and it was never used and merely | | | | although sometimes it appears they have a long way |
| discarded. | | | | to go. |
| The American Indians and their ancestors lived on the | | | | |