Mayan axe ?

[hondu2]

Hi everyone,
I,m new but have been reading the posts here for a while. I live in Honduras but am from the states. I don't have much time to use my detector because I work most of the time, and the safety factor here in Honduras. While digging my septic tank for my house I found somthing interesting. It was damaged a little by a pic-axe but is in fair shape. The locals say it is a Mayan axe head. I don't know if it is or not. I tried to post pictures the other day, and it said my entry was to big. I will try again. In the pics it looks black but is really dark green. I had to crop the photos so the ruler got cut out. It is 4 1/4 inch long, and maybe 2 inches high and about 1 inch thick.
HH

 

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[folkert]

It is indeed an axe head and it reminds me very much to the neolithic axe heads (5500-2200 BC) which we find here in Middle Europe. A very nice find!!!

 

[Eupho17]

If it's made from obsidian (which it sounds like it is), you likely have the real deal there. Congratulations! Careful- those suckers are still sharp.

 

[Sheldius]

Hard to tell from the photo :P but it looks like a ground stone axe. Could be Mayan or could be earlier. Ground stone can be any hard material and would be smoothed to form the blade. Obsidian axes would have flakes removed all over to make the blade. Here are some examples of ground stone for you to look at. It would need to be looked at by a Mayan archaeologist to tell if it is Mayan.

 

[Eupho17]

I know just the guy. Would a professor of Mayan history at a well-known public university suffice?

 

[twister]

Wow, awesome find, Congrats!!

HH Twister

 

[Sheldius]

A Mayan history professor would probably have a very good idea. Nice find by the way, but I'd check out the local laws before trying to remove it from the country.

Good luck and HH

 

[Gribnitz]

Looks just like the celts found up here in the states. You know, I watched something on Discovery or History Channel, one of those educational channels. They did a documentary on a tribe that had very little contact with the outside world. A guy went to live with them to see if he could survive with their teaching out in the jungle. They let him use their axe to cut down trees to make fish traps or something. They looked just like that. The axe heads were passed down from generation to generation so far back they couldn't remember where they came from.

 

[hondu2]

Thanks for all the input.
hh

 

[JP]

I live off and on in El Salvador and have found several that I don' t have the pictures of right now because I am in Florida at this time. There are things everywhere down there and just like here very few people are interested in the "junk." Here are some pics of a few of my finds. Most of the stuff is obsidian, there are two ground stone axe heads (?), and a painted piece of pottery that was found beside a sidewalk in front of everybody. I will post more pictures later. I have an axe head just like that one, I'll post the picture when I find it. They are made out of some kind of green stone from the region.