Saturday, July 2, 2022





 Good morning friends and family. I've been doing a bit of research the past few months on one of my favorite things. This is a spearhead that Grandpa (Louie) Baker found while clearing the land behind where the barn is now. He always said there were so many fallen trees a person could walk on them to the other side of the canyon without ever stepping on the ground. It was 1920 and he had just received the homestead and probably had the cabin that became the house. I don't remember exactly when he gave it to me. I think I was a teenager. No one paid a lot of attention to it...but I've managed to not lose it. I assumed it was a couple hundred years old. I've found out I was wrong. It's thousands of years old and probably was made in a time period before the bows and arrows...and when the ice age had just ended. There's evidence that the top 1/3 has been resharpened so it was used for a good amount of time without breaking. My imagination says it might have taken down a woolly mamouth or two. No way of knowing. I'm putting a chart in the comments that seems to be the closest identifying possibility. It's prehistoric...so lots of gray areas. I hope y'all enjoy lettin your imaginations take you back in time thousands of years.

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