Josh Corbin and his wife quit their jobs years ago to pursue their dreams of fishing and hunting. They're the team behind the YouTube channel Antler Trader, where they upload their adventures, including shed-hunting missions. While they've had a lot of incredible shed finds over the years, in 2018 they had the find of a lifetime.
The couple was out looking for mule deer sheds. While the shed hunting was slow, they began finding Native American arrowheads, sherds of pottery, and various stonework chips. The finds started to get richer and richer until they uncovered a whole wealth of Native American artifacts: more chippings, pieces of arrowheads, including obsidian arrowheads, sherds of pottery, some of which were painted, and several rings of stones from where Native Americans may have set up camps.
They also end up finding a few mule deer sheds, and some actual deer, to boot.
It's impossible to know from the video how old the Native American artifacts are, or where exactly the couple found them. Native American artifacts can be found throughout most of the United States, especially in the more remote, untouched areas that hunters and fishermen like to frequent.
If you are lucky enough to find a Native American artifact, leave it where you found it, just as the couple at Antler Trader does. Federal law prohibits the theft and destruction of Native American cultural items on federal and Indian lands, and the artifacts should remain in the landscape for others to enjoy and learn from. If you find a particularly rich site, like in the video, notify local archaeologists. They may be interested in researching and further preserving the site.
