Dang people.

[monsterrack]

It's bad enough with the fakes out there, but then there is this stuff. What's so bad someone will buy this or go find something like it and argue that it's a artifact.

 

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[Gaspipe]

Hey EBay is full of slimy people willing to sell anything . Arrowheads and porcelain signs are so bad I won’t even buy them on the site anymore.

 

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[unclemac]

have you seen the chinese fake high end coins? talk about fakes, these babies are well made too!

 

[Diggin-N-Dumps]

have you seen the chinese fake high end coins? talk about fakes, these babies are well made too!

Yea, I've seen those as well as nice gold and silver bars with serial numbers like the real deal. its digusting.

 

[PaleoPrincess]

Dang, I've got better looking shapes than that in the woods behind my house. I could sell them? We've got 20k in credit card debt and I couldn't do that kind of dirty deed. Maybe a GoFundMe.

That’s all I can think! I will sell every rock in my driveway and retire!

 

[Fred250]

My ancestors were a lot more skilled than that. It's kind of aggravating that when they did something really complicated, it had to be aliens that helped them or Europeans that came here before Colombus.

What if your ancestors weren’t the first species to get to America. We’d all have to broaden our horizons on what constitutes an artifact.

 

[MAMucker]

What if your ancestors weren’t the first species to get to America. We’d all have to broaden our horizons on what constitutes an artifact.

Species?

 

[Fred250]

Species?

I meant of human, but monkeys make tools as well.

 

[MAMucker]

I meant of human, but monkeys make tools as well.

As do otters?

 

[Arkansaw]

This cave art woodlands pencil is an absolute steal at this price!

 

[Fred250]

Probably gotta do some swimming to find an otter tool, but I’d like to see them if you got them. I’m not trying to vouch for eBay stuff, just trying to point out stone tools in other parts of the world are just rocks here, but for how much longer?

 

[Diggin' History]

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Early Native American cell phone yours for 1000 bucks

 

[Diggin' History]

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This cave art woodlands pencil is an absolute steal at this price!

I could of paid last months electric bill with that rock. Hmmm... excuse me while I peruse the acreage behind my house.

 

[MAMucker]

Probably gotta do some swimming to find an otter tool, but I’d like to see them if you got them. I’m not trying to vouch for eBay stuff, just trying to point out stone tools in other parts of the world are just rocks here, but for how much longer?

Here’s a tip: oceans, lakes, ponds, river and stream bottoms are littered with Otter tools. I’m sure this is valuable info to a motivated entrepreneur.

But seriously, it is remarkable (and annoying) that those who seem to stumble over so many of these “rocks” feel so confident in leaping to wishful conclusions about them, and at the same time struggle to find an obvious Stone Age (NA) artifact.
Adding to this schism is the strong protest mounted when someone with years of experience asks, What evidence?

No disrespect intended to anyone, especially you.

 

[Fred250]

Have I been fooled by natural rocks? Of course. Have I been fooled hundreds of times by the tools, and yes, portable rock art, that I have collected over the years? Zero chance, because in my extremely biased opinion, I’m too smart to be wrong that many times and the odds are highly in my favor that some are artifacts. Why do so few agree with my opinion? The only way it makes sense to me is if I’m finding something different, either tools of a different culture or species than from the majority on here. Could I be way off base? Certainly. If someone told me they had strange tools they thought were of a different time and culture than are supposed to be here and it would take almost zero time or effort for me to check them out, I would just on the minuscule chance they were right. I guess that’s why I tend to give people a little more leeway, even though I only see just rocks in their posts as you do.

 

[unclemac]

look at all the hammer stones and pestles i just found!

 

[Older The Better]

Semi related, I’m working on cataloguing what I find Incase something happens to me. That way someone doesn’t assume my “native cell phone” is real because they don’t know better and it’s mixed with true artifacts... maybe some sellers have inherited collections and have no idea what is real and are just looking to make a buck while dumping a collection they don’t want.

 

[dsmikle]

It could be the elusive giant beaver fetus!!!!!!