DownNDirty
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And no I don't think they are all artifacts, just two or three that possibly could be. Either way it's hard to make a definitive id from a couple of pictures.
Gee, I'm not arguing and no I don't think. They were posted as stone tools, not just a nutting stone and some rocks as you say. I'm suggesting to Matt a way to determine if certain rocks may indeed have been used as tools. To be blunt, they're all just common rocks. I don't see any evidence of use or working on any of them. That 'nutting stone' will never work. Don't believe me, place a black walnut on it, hit it with a hammer stone and that nutting stone will bounce all around or probably just shatter. My ancestors made and used stone tools and they applied some craftsmanship to them. But I have seen my grandpa knock off a crude quartz flake and use it to cut some willow stems. I've done the same thing. A very good test to apply to suspected artifacts is 'could I use this' and 'how could I use this' and my favorite, 'does this work'. In the use of tools, we really aren't that much different than our ancestors.Well it would be kinda hard to kill and butcher an animal with a nutting stone and there are no projectile points or blades pictured so your comment makes no sense. But that doesn't mean that some of the pictured items weren't used as tools. Kind of a lame argument don't you think?
Actually I did, I found a piece of obsidian that was turned in to a little knife/hide scaper, I've been looking everywhere for it. and if you notice the hide scraper that I posted clearly shows working marks.. It may not look like it but it's an old piece.. My area is not tools of flint napping.. these are made from a glacier that settled, strong hard rock. I haven't seen hardly any flint in this area. It may not look like it but a lot of these are much older and brittle than they seem. For example the hide scraper in the pic above.. if I soaked it in water for two long and took the brush to it I would lose all the marking. of course not all of them are of such but a lot are. I personally don't think that all of these are artifacts.. a lot of them have notches. The fact of the matter is that I posted 3 artifacts that I have already gotten authenticated, And no one has said anything about them. That just proves to me that no matter how long you you've been doing this it doesn't mean you know it all because you obviously don't. And that right there is facts! We all learn something new everyday.. well.. Some of us do that is., lol
Actually I did, I found a piece of obsidian that was turned in to a little knife/hide scaper, I've been looking everywhere for it. and if you notice the hide scraper that I posted clearly shows working marks.. It may not look like it but it's an old piece.. My area is not tools of flint napping.. these are made from a glacier that settled, strong hard rock. I haven't seen hardly any flint in this area. It may not look like it but a lot of these are much older and brittle than they seem. For example the hide scraper in the pic above.. if I soaked it in water for two long and took the brush to it I would lose all the marking. of course not all of them are of such but a lot are. I personally don't think that all of these are artifacts.. a lot of them have notches. The fact of the matter is that I posted 3 artifacts that I have already gotten authenticated, And no one has said anything about them. That just proves to me that no matter how long you you've been doing this it doesn't mean you know it all because you obviously don't. And that right there is facts! We all learn something new everyday.. well.. Some of us do that is., lol
It's all I'm familiar with, but I'm sure some of your US friends have plenty experience of non-flint tools.Exactly (flint) that's all these people know of. lol One of them is a drill.. one is a scraper and the other is a spear head. Neither of them are (flint)