Stumbled on a 4,000-year-old arrowhead in a field near my uncle's farm last weekend

I was out walking with my uncle in upstate New York when I saw this weird rock poking out of the dirt. I pulled it out and it's clearly flint with this super sharp edge, like someone shaped it on purpose. I took it to a local museum and they said it's from the Late Archaic period, around 2000 BC. They even matched it to a site a few miles away where people used to camp. Has anyone else found something old by accident, or am I just lucky?

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dakota_singh3922d ago

Man I dunno, aren't most arrowheads just rocks that happen to look sharp?

the_ben22d ago

@dakota_singh39 lol nah man the flaking pattern is way too clean for that, try knapping one yourself and you'll see.