Here, effectively in private, I can admit that I find arrowhead hunting with your buddies to be a YouTube genre that pisses me off. These guys are down in the Carolinas in places where there are so many arrowheads, all you have to do to find them is look down. They go out in a team and bring home dozens of arrowheads. Each find is accompanied by loud shouts of "Wow its a screamer"..."its a SMOKER"...etc. Or "Aww buddy you got skunked".
These guys understand nothing and teach nothing to the viewer. They do not tell you the materials, the arrowhead styles, any info about the topography. When arrowhead hunting is about picking up the next trinket, then the arrowheads become correspondingly low valued. You do not need to think about or understand prehistory. When I spend months without finding anything, then a single arrowhead becomes very precious - whether or not I communicate that on YouTube. It is not about shouting and competing with your buddies. I have enough pain of loss during those empty months. For me, there is intellectual effort behind the finds - not that I necessarily succeed. The effort makes me aware of things that may help me understand what I am finding.
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