Native American Artifacts

Native American Artifacts posts deal with stone tools, pottery shards, beadwork, projectile points and other objects found across the United States. Articles cover legal issues around surface collecting on private versus public land, the Antiquities Act and NAGPRA, how to recognise reproduction pieces from genuine ones, and the standard typology for Clovis, Folsom and later point types. Other pieces look at responsible museum collections and why most serious collectors now refuse anything from a burial context. Posts here lean toward education and ethics, not toward valuation.