Videos by John B R A D F O R D Branney
A short video on a handful of blades from my collection.
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A three Clovis platter cache discovered in southeastern Wyoming by a highway worker in the 1960s ... more A three Clovis platter cache discovered in southeastern Wyoming by a highway worker in the 1960s - 1970s. The cache sat in storage for twenty-five years before collector Frank Parrish acquired the cache and saved it from obscurity. I acquired the cache in 2021. 5 views
My two-minute video on Agate Basin projectile points from the high plains and in my collection wi... more My two-minute video on Agate Basin projectile points from the high plains and in my collection with color commentary. 3 views
My short video and comments on Clovis, Goshen, and Folsom projectile points.
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This is the infamous red frame that I am still adding artifacts to. It has mostly bird points les... more This is the infamous red frame that I am still adding artifacts to. It has mostly bird points less than one inch long from the Late Prehistoric. It also has some iron points and some small scrapers. I just added three more bird points to it this past week. 9 views
My brief video with a brief commentary on Hell Gap projectile point from Paleoindian times on the... more My brief video with a brief commentary on Hell Gap projectile point from Paleoindian times on the High Plains. 8 views
My short video on one frame of my Middle Archaic Mallory points with commentary.
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A frame of Late Paleoindian high plains surface finds including knife forms, projectile points, a... more A frame of Late Paleoindian high plains surface finds including knife forms, projectile points, and drill forms with my brief commentary. 3 views
My short video on two strange prehistoric artifacts surface recovered on the same site in norther... more My short video on two strange prehistoric artifacts surface recovered on the same site in northern Colorado. Since I made this video in January 2022, I have found four more similar artifacts on or near that site. 178 views
My video with a brief commentary on prehistoric bifaces I suspect are Clovis.
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My three-minute video on three thousand years of Paleoindian projectile point evolution with colo... more My three-minute video on three thousand years of Paleoindian projectile point evolution with color commentary on projectile points from my collection. 211 views
This Paleoindian knife form was surface found on private land in central Colorado. I believe that... more This Paleoindian knife form was surface found on private land in central Colorado. I believe that it has the attributes of a Clovis knife form, but since it was a surface find, we will never know for sure. 2 views
My brief video on some High Plains Clovis artifacts from my collection.
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I have been hunting prehistoric artifacts for over fifty years and have not encountered this type... more I have been hunting prehistoric artifacts for over fifty years and have not encountered this type of hide-working artifact until last year. Counting these first two stone tools, I have around seven of them so far in 2022. I imagine I have walked over many in the past thinking they were just rocks. 1 views
I have noticed on many of my Scottsbluff projectile points and knife forms thinning strikes along... more I have noticed on many of my Scottsbluff projectile points and knife forms thinning strikes along the basal edges. I believe it is diagnostic for Cody Complex. 4 views
My passion for prehistoric artifacts started out at an early age when my mother showed me her fat... more My passion for prehistoric artifacts started out at an early age when my mother showed me her father's prehistoric artifacts at my ripe old age of five. Since then, I have been dragging home rocks. his is my video of three of my grandfather's surface finds from our homestead north of Moneta, Wyoming. He found these as a trio and I believe they are Clovis, but I will never know for sure. 2 views
My brief video on three ultrathin knife forms from my high plains collection with commentary.
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My short video on a few of my Middle Archaic artifacts from the high plains of Wyoming and Colora... more My short video on a few of my Middle Archaic artifacts from the high plains of Wyoming and Colorado. 4 views
A few of the Clovis artifacts from my collection with commentary.
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A brief video on prehistoric artifacts surface recovered by the author on a postage-stamp-sized s... more A brief video on prehistoric artifacts surface recovered by the author on a postage-stamp-sized site in northeastern Colorado from the 1980s to the present. Artifacts range in age from Paleoindian to Late Prehistoric. 169 views
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Based on archaeological evidence, the Central Plains and High Plains people lived vastly different lifestyles. On the Central Plains, horticulture was an important part of the economy while on the High Plains horticulture appeared to play little or no role. Even with the different lifestyles, there was a relationship between the High Plains and Central Plains people during the Upper Republican phase. At High Plains
sites, archeologists found Upper Republican pottery manufactured with clay from the Central Plains, and at Central Plains sites, archaeologists found raw material originating on the High Plains. We know that the Upper Republican people from the Central Plains and High Plains used the same styles of side-notched and tri-notched projectile points. What was that relationship?
end as the projectile point dried. That meant an old break lowered my
chances of finding the projectile point tip nearby. The tip of the projectile point could be anywhere. The prehistoric hunter might have broken the projectile point while hunting and then discarded the projectile point base from its foreshaft when he returned to camp. I find projectile point bases in prehistoric campsites all the time. Nevertheless, I dug into that cutbank like a gopher on caffeine.
Join me on my latest adventure in prehistoric time.
prehistoric times. The Midland projectile point is one of the latter.
As early as 1700, the Comanche tribe traded for thousands of iron arrow points from the Spaniards (Hamm 1991:132). According to Linton (1940), the Comanche Indians were at first eager to obtain muskets from the Europeans, but once that novelty wore off, they returned to the bow and arrow for hunting and war. While the muskets possessed a greater firing range, the firearms were cumbersome, hard to reload on horseback, and brandished a much lower rate of fire. According to Carter (1935) and Marcy (1938), a Comanche warrior could hit an object the size of a doorknob four out of five times at a distance of fifty yards with a bow and
arrow. Once repeating rifles became available to the Comanche Indians, they shifted away from the bow and arrow. Here is the story about the iron points that tipped the American Indians' arrows.
perhaps everyone in the tribe or culture did not have the proper skill or experience to flute Folsom points. What is your theory?
Imagine what Canada and other northern hemisphere countries were like with a mile or so of ice on top of the land for thousands of years. The ice sheets were heavy enough to push the Earth's crust down approximately 1000 feet. Where did all the water for the ice come from? Answer: the oceans! Sea levels dropped substantially!
Do we know what caused these Ice Ages?
Let me present one plausible theory.