Just how long?

[ApacheNDN]

Just found this site not long ago. It is fantastic. I have been addicted to looking for and studying artifacts since 1990.

[Tdog]

Welcome

[MidlandMan]

I've been hunting artifacts since I was old enough to walk! Having an archaeologist for an uncle helped a lot as well. I remember going to No Trees to see pictagraphs, hunting blowouts in Winkler Co. and searching along the Pecos River way back into my early youth!!! Fossils and snakes figured in prominantly also. When I was about four years old we visited a very old Oglala Sioux Indian named White Bird who had a small private museum on his reservation farm and I remember much of that in detail even to this day.

[EagleBear]

I have been doing this for the last 2 years now. But I did find my first arrowhead when I was about 8 on some property my parents had in VA. But I wont count that one cause I didnt find another one till 2 yrs ago.

[Sundance]

I can blame my Mother for my habit, at least it's not one of those bad one's, and you can teach an old dog new tricks in this habit. sundance

[Displaced Hunter]

My vote landed in the majority. I started off a complete beginner with very few pointers. Had a rain day off work back in 1987 and wandered into the field across from my folk's old farmhouse. Found some flint and a tiny polished 3/4 groove axe. I was hooked.

Same field produced my only other two complete axes to date prior to being developed.

[MikeE]

As a Boy Scout I was introduced to Artifact Coll. when the Scout Master showed us his collection. I was about 10 I think and found my first point swimming in a creek in WV the next year. I still have it and that makes 51 yrs now. I studied Archaeology at the U of M but no jobs were available so I became a Mason Contractor/collector.
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[blackwater]

around 1970 or 71' me and a buddy were out exploring the sandhills in bailey county, tx. we were walking up behind a bulldozer that was breaking out an alfalfa circle and heard a loud clank, saw a big flat rock flip up in the air, dozer operator never slowed down and we ran up to see what it was. a big grindstone,still had red ochre stains on it. never knew anything about Indians having been there. somehow i knew what it was though and have had the bug ever since.