Many of us have seen old flint or obsidian arrowheads for sale in antique stores. Often, such collections were carefully framed and hung on walls.
Where did they come from? Farmers, walking behind horse-drawn implements, frequently found them, picked them up, and kept them. Others were dug up, often in Indian graveyards where they were buried with the deceased, presumably to let them kill game while spending eternity in the Happy Hunting Grounds.
Today, picking up and keeping an arrowhead is considered a crime. Digging one up on purpose is an bigger crime. Federal agencies may be involved.
So, what should we do with any arrowheads we happen to find? Some experts who spend a lot of time thinking about such things say that we should put them back, immediately. “Indian artifacts should be re-buried in the place they were found.”
What should we do if that location is unknown? The desired course of action is a little more vague. “They ought to be buried in some other place.” It has been suggested that “Experts can often provide an educated guess as to where they might have been made.” The “experts” may be able to locate the source, give or take a few hundred miles.
As more and more people worry about such incredible trivia, it helps to remember that, during the past decades when such concerns became popular, forty or fifty million unborn American babies were painfully killed by abortionists.
It’s much easier to worry about what to do with old, flint arrowheads than consciously dealing with how bad things are. Living with, and being forced to help pay for, mass murder makes thinking about Imaginary Problems more popular than ever. Thanks for reading What to do with old Arrowheads.
