Broken elevator

[Digginitdaily]

About a month ago I hit a spot on the river and found several points, blades and pottery. A also found a few bones. I am in middle Tennessee for the record. But after cleaning and drying them I've started trying to figure out what animal it's from and what it's used for. There are tool marks in places of this bone. I'm thinking it's bison. The l2. I'm not sure if it was made to look like another animal and used as a shaman stick but thoughts would be helpful.

 

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[Older The Better]

Could be the lumbar of a cow or bison. Most bones are impossible to tell. I don’t see the tool marks. it would have another wing on the opposite side and it would have a small projection that’s broken off the top.

 

[Digginitdaily]

Yeh I didn't take any close ups yet. What's interesting to me though is how the long skinny bone is tapered down on mine versus unaltered ones I've seen in pictures. Where I'm from in ga there isn't many bones tools so I'm learning as I go basically. On a different spot down the river I found a odd angled rock that turned out to be a fossilized hoof !

 

[Fred250]

Here is a link to an article by Dr.Gramly on a bone sculpture, not sure it is what you have but is a possibility. In another issue of the magazine he has an article on lesser k own bone tool types.

https://pleistocenecoalition.com/newsletter/september-october2023.pdf#page=7

 

[Fred250]

Here is a link to an article by Dr.Gramly on a bone sculpture, not sure it is what you have but is a possibility. In another issue of the magazine he has an article on lesser k own bone tool types.

https://pleistocenecoalition.com/newsletter/september-october2023.pdf#page=7

Issue with article on bone tools

http://pleistocenecoalition.com/newsletter/november-december2021.pdf#page=3

 

[Relicgrubber]

How big are they? They look like a Catfish bone

 

[Digginitdaily]

How big are they? They look like a Catfish bone

I'd say this one is 10 inches or more. It's also missing a side piece.

 

[Older The Better]

It’s 100% a lumbar vertebrae

 

[Digginitdaily]

It’s 100% a lumbar vertebrae

But is it bison or cow? I'm thinking bison

 

[Older The Better]

I don’t think you can tell from a vertebra, I remembered I had found probably the same bone in the river a while back

 

[Digginitdaily]

It would make sense to be a bison. Apparently at one point they roamed through the region. Hence the name (buffalo valley). I read a journal entry today about describing how the Indians lived in the wallowed out side of the hills. Pretty interesting article

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Bone in pictures does not appear to be fossil. Was it in river bank, river or away from river, bones do not last long in wet or damp ground or environment.

 

[LandSeig]

About a month ago I hit a spot on the river and found several points, blades and pottery. A also found a few bones. I am in middle Tennessee for the record. But after cleaning and drying them I've started trying to figure out what animal it's from and what it's used for. There are tool marks in places of this bone. I'm thinking it's bison. The l2. I'm not sure if it was made to look like another animal and used as a shaman stick but thoughts would be helpful.

You can take a lighter and put it to a small corner of the bone and if it smells it’s not fossilized

 

[Digginitdaily]

No it's definitely not fossilized. But it did come out of the bank in a bend. The gravel bar at the same bend runs into the bank. I've picked up a couple nice points there and several chunks of pottery.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

No it's definitely not fossilized. But it did come out of the bank in a bend. The gravel bar at the same bend runs into the bank. I've picked up a couple nice points there and several chunks of pottery.

Odds are high it isn’t that old, for it to not be fossilized coming out of a river bank, it's not going to survive hundreds of years as natural bone in a riverbank, it's too wet of environment with river floods, and rain run offs.