The Museum & Collection: Here you will find a large collection of prehistoric North American Indian artifacts and a collection of fossil vertebrates from Ice Age mammals and fish. The main purpose of this site was for me to be able to share my artifacts and fossils with other serious collectors and people interested in prehistoric life. It was also a great way to catalog my entire collection. I developed the site to educate others about fossils and early American peoples and how they lived. The site is illustrated with Smithsonian, National archives, and public domain photos. Other articles were borrowed from other educational websites. The artifacts portions of the site are illustrated with real historic Indian photos taken by Edward Sheriff Curtis between 1907 to 1930. I'll also use this site to post interesting and informative articles on archeology, paleontology, anthropology, science, legends, mysteries, and collecting artifacts and fossils. If you have any questions? Email me! I'd be happy to answer questions or anything else I could help you with.

About the Artifacts: The majority of the artifacts were found in Illinois, by my father Bill Dyer and in Johnson and Jackson Counties, during the 50's and early 1960's. I too have contributed with finds from southern Illinois, Kentucky, Texas, and my home state Florida. There was only one piece here that was purchased. (a restored mississippian pot). Every single artifact here was dug out of the mud by either my dad or me. Represented here is a collection of Indian points, spear heads, knives, darts, bird points or true arrowheads and a collection of Indian tools, that include scrapers, pestles, adzes, awles, chisels, spades, axes, banner stones, and other stone implements. These artifacts come from the paleo indian period about 13,000 years before present time, on through the archaic, woodland, and mississippian cultural time period that ended 400 years ago. Typology or point names are as accurate as I could get them for now. Artifacts are dated as B.P. (Before Present).

About the Fossil Vertebrates: The fossils here were found by me in Florida. Most came from Sarasota, Manatee, and Hillsborough counties or found about the city of Venice where I went to high school. They include fossils from animals we see today, but not necessarily in Florida, and as well animals that went extinct after the Ice Age. The collection contains animal vertabrate fossils of mammoth, mastodon, camel, bison, bear, horse, giant ground sloth, and other various Ice Age animals. The collection also includes many marine fossils that include the giant Carcharodon megalodon shark teeth, barracuda, manatee, turtle, whale, stingray, and other various marine creature fossils. There are also a few marine Invertebrate fossils.