As a hiker, runner and mountain bike enthusiast I have always loved the great outdoors and often when I venture off the main trail to look at something of interest I will find an Indian arrowhead. For some reason I tend to notice weird shaped rocks, it is very fun to find old Indian arrowheads and I use to collect them, but now I just leave them for someone else to find because I think it is pretty cool.

Since most arrowheads are made out of stone they last a long time and they do not decompose in nature like other things that man creates and leaves behind. It is interesting to wonder what the Indian was like who shot that narrow and if it missed its target or hit its target. Sometimes I wonder if the arrowhead was not good enough and it was never used and merely discarded.

The American Indians and their ancestors lived on the North American continent for no less than 10,000 years. If you consider the United States of America is only a little over 200 years old you can imagine how long 10,000 years is. Some believe that there were human beings living on the North American continent for as long as 80,000 years prior, although we cannot prove it.

If you find an Indian arrowhead on the surface then chances are it is not that old. Perhaps it was buried and then a storm and some erosion uncovered it. Nevertheless it is fun to find Indian arrowheads that are triangular in shape and you can tell that they were chipped in to that shape by some type of tool. Apparently human beings have come a long way although sometimes it appears they have a long way to go.