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Deep dives on the arrowhead world

Longer reads on the science, the market, and the craft — with photos, timelines, and the papers behind every big claim. Companions to our type identification guides.

Three dark chert Kirk corner-notched points on a yellow background beside a centimetre scale bar, each with a white catalogue number painted on its base.

FeaturedThe Craft

How Arrowheads Are Actually Authenticated

What professional authenticators really examine — material, patina, flaking forensics, use-wear, provenance — and where photo-based AI screening honestly fits.

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Seven fossil human footprints preserved in pale Ice Age gypsum sediment at White Sands National Park, running in a line across the frame.

The Science

How Old Is the Oldest American "Arrowhead"? Inside the Pre-Clovis Debate

For decades Clovis points marked the first Americans. Then Monte Verde, Cooper's Ferry, and 23,000-year-old footprints at White Sands rewrote the timeline — and the argument is still running.

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Several flintknappers seated at tables under a pavilion, working stone during a timed knapping competition at an Ohio flint festival.

The Market

Why Are There So Many Fake Arrowheads?

Modern flintknapping never died — and honest reproductions become fraud the moment they're resold as ancient. How fakes are made, aged, and caught.

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