What's the deal with the Sahara desert points?

[tomclark]

I guess they are great if you collect African.

[ghost recon]

Ruh roh, I got ball-peen'd by quick-draw McGraw.

[Steve Valentine]

My brother got a butt load of these when they first started surfacing over here in the 90's. He met a college student from over in that area that had a few and he bought them all for about a nickel each. He asked the kid if he had any more and he said give him a few weeks because he was going home for a visit and would bring some back. He called my brother and he went and met the kid and he had 2 suit cases completely full of them. My brother bought like a thousand for a little over $100 and made all kinds on money reselling them. Of course after the market got flooded over here he couldn't hardly give them away. I think he still has a few around his house somewhere. I picked out a few and have them in a tray. They are cool looking, but I didn't want very many of them.

[Ralph Bryant]

I have noticed many of the stemmed varieties being passed off lately as "Texas Perdiz Points", which many of the Sahara points closely resemble. Watch the materials involved and the flaking. That is about the only way to tell the difference on some of these.

[Indianasmith]

I have a nice little frame of them I accumulated this year. They are just PRETTY!

[beforeyouknewme]

I bought some back in the 80's, when they weren't around. The old gentleman had worked for Shell in Libya, back in the late 60's. They all have sandblasted surfaces.......a good thing to look for, from something lying exposed in the sahara for eons.

[marksimerson]

Seems to me I heard the African government has put a halt to the export of them a couple of years ago.

[deets2000]

They don't look too cheap from what I found from sellers that had a guaranteed return policy.

[skippy1]

Hey Joshua, Where would you recomend that I get some of these points? Is there such a thing as a reputable dealer of these points?
Ryan

[MidlandMan]

The small collection I have of Saharan arrowpoints look just like Perdiz, Fresno, and Micro Pencil Drills one might find in Late Prehistoric context along the central Texas coast but are thousands and not hundreds of years old! The bow and arrow reach back to the African Neolithic as Joshua pointed out. These points have an extreem desert polish and patination and I believe are authentic. I keep them to demonstrate to people that the names given to artifact types are not meerly based on morphology but relate to a direct cultural relationship. Thats why seeing artifacts without any info as to origen or context are just some pretty(almost worthless) artifacts to me!