MAKING TRADITIONAL ARROWS

By Jeff Martin | October 11, 2018
A collection of vintage sticks on a black cloths

Past cultures and their means of making bows and arrows have always been an interest of mine. As a young boy, I remember visiting museums throughout the West with my Grandmother. I had a deep fascination towards the Native American way of life. I always asked my Grandmother where the arrowheads and archery equipment was…

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HOHOKAM SNAKETOWN POINTS

By Jeff Martin | October 11, 2018
Small pieces of pointed tips on the arrow

All archaeologists agree, the prehistoric Hohokam of the Phoenix Valley were an amazing people whom forced us to reexamine the way we view agriculture in the early Americas. Ancestral to O’odham people, the Hohokam were an early culture living in Southern Arizona from AD.1-1450. Indeed, one of the most widely debated topics in archaeology circulates…

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