Alabama was home to many tribes, including Creek, Choctaw and Cherokee peoples. Maps of tribal territories indicate that they concentrated their activities along watercourses and tributaries of rivers such as the Tombigbee. Arrowheads may appear anywhere Alabama Native Americans hunted. Identifying ancient campsites and settlements is most productive. Look for mounds of discolored earth indicating a midden, or ancient trash pile.
Arrowheads often are present among the layers of ash, broken pottery and charcoal. Think about where you would have set up camp and look for middens. Get started by checking historical maps of Alabama that identify tribal settlements. Although the landscape has changed because of dams and development, satellite images can help you zero in on likely topography around waterways. Flowing water quickly grinds down or buries arrowheads, but searching stream banks after flooding has sliced into new soil is effective.
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There are at least three monthly journals on the subject circulating here, and a trade show in Huntsville last month drew 40 dealers. Prices range from a few dollars to hundreds, even thousands for rare finds. What is everyone looking for? Physical links to life of humans dating back 10, years or more in this area. Rivers were highways, grocery stores, boundaries and water sources for people even before that, and even nomadic tribes returned to the same camps year after year.
In some ways, the banks of the Tennessee River make up "one big archaeological site, Cooley said, and right in the middle is the Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge. Established in , the Wheeler's 35, acres stretch 19 miles along both north and south banks of the Tennessee between Huntsville and Decatur. That's 72 years of no human development. But the refuge has more than , visitors each year and as many as times a year, reserve officers "make contact" with visitors to see if they are artifact hunting.
And at least a couple of dozen times a year, they write a citation for removing artifacts. If they've seen you even once before, "you go see the judge," Vehrs said. Last January, Vehrs and another officer saw Amos Hester of Hartselle digging in one of those exposed mud flats underwater this time of year. They'd definitely seen Hester before. There's no need to say "allegedly" digging because Hester pleaded guilty in Huntsville federal court last month.
Vehrs found a dozen pieces of worked stone and arrowheads in his pockets. Now, Hester has a date in Huntsville with U. District Judge Karon Bowdre this November.
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