Antelope County Museum

How old is it?  In 1965, a grouping of Native American artifacts belonging to Thomas Marwood was donated to the Antelope County Museum by his family. According to museum records, Thomas’s parents moved to Clearwater area in 1869 where they built a log cabin and began farming. Thomas spent the rest of his life in the area and amassed a sizable collection of stone artifacts collected around the Clearwater area. The size, condition, and variety of the artifacts are impressive, but what is even more interesting about the collection is the vast difference in age of some of the stone projectile points. The attached picture shows a grouping of points covering a several thousand year time period. While it is impossible to assign a definitive date to a specific projectile point without further evidence to go on, it is possible to look at the physical characteristic of a point and assign it to a certain culture which can give a rough idea of its age. Simply put, certain groups of people made t