I've been looking for arrowheads at our creek and haven't had a lot of luck, were there a lot of Indians ever living in Middle Tennessee? If so, what area? A guy a while back went to the creek and moved a lot of rocks around with his bulldozer, did that help or make it worse to find arrow heads? No one around here plows their fields, is there another way to check the fields for arrowheads? Help please!
The entire state of Tennessee was Indian Lands, but finding arrowheads is a hit or miss proposition. It does very little good to look for them. You just come across them when you least expect it.
&were there a lot of Indians ever living in Middle Tennessee?& I've no idea, but as a general comment... &A guy a while back went to the creek and moved a lot of rocks around with his bulldozer, did that help or make it worse to find arrow heads?& If there are none there to be found, then it would make no difference. However, should it happen to be a suitable locality, ie. one with arrowheads, then bulldozing is likely to expose stuff that was previously below the surface. Any sort of construction-like activity is partly bad, in that it can destroy what could already have been exposed. Usually, however, it's more good than bad. It turns up more stuff than it destroys. You can often help yourself with some research in localized literature. In order to find a good site, look for one that's both accessible (which may involve asking the landowner, should it be private land), and has already yielded the cherished prey. That'd be a good place to hit the target. Should there happen to be a local museum or some kind of archaeological group, that would be extremely useful. These are only generalized comments based on my own modest fossil-hunting in Dorset, England and Franconia in Germany. Hopefully, they might be some kind of help. &is there another way to check the fields for arrowheads?& Finding out where to look is always good. That can sometimes be done by looking at relevant literature, should any be available. Much productive searching first takes place in books.
