More stone artifacts

[cmenokla]

Here are some more items I'd like in ormation on.

 

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[beep beep dig]

with the exception of possibly one, they are all just plain old natural rocks.

 

[cmenokla]

The stones were taken to the university and local chief 's Nephew who have confirmed native and stone age artifacts. It just amazes me the comments I have gotten in the short time I have been a member.

 

[beep beep dig]

it just amazes me that you are able to take normal rocks and see something in them that doesn't exist. when humans manipulate rocks, it is very obvious. i am sorry that your "experts" are dead wrong.

 

[Beans]

The stones were taken to the university and local chief 's Nephew who have confirmed native and stone age artifacts. It just amazes me the comments I have gotten in the short time I have been a member.

Keep the pictures coming. Gotta separate the wheat from the chaff.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Local Chief what? I have taken rocks to University of Mo and told rocks were artifacts when in fact they weren't and told some artifacts weren't artifacts when infact they were artifacts so don't put a lot into what they told you. Take them to an artifact show and see what the dealers tell you, they are far more knowledgeable..

 

[CTwoods]

The stones were taken to the university and local chief 's Nephew who have confirmed native and stone age artifacts. It just amazes me the comments I have gotten in the short time I have been a member.

Not being sarcastic at all, but you should have asked the University and the Chief's nephew what they would pay you for them. This is the way to see how confident they are in what they told you.

Normally, when you do this with a person that claims to be so knowledgeable, they back off, and come up with excuses on why they can't buy them from you, even if you only wanted a dollar per piece.

Some people will never be convinced, and keep asking other people, until they finally find someone that agrees.


It reminds me of a recent thread on a person who thought they dug a very rare 1943 copper penny. Multiple people looked at the pics of it, and proved beyond any reasonable doubt, that the top of the 3 did not have the correct location to be a 3, and proved it was a 5. Despite that, some said to spend $60 or $80 to send it out to a coin grading company to get the "expert" opinion. That was very misleading advice, and very foolish advice.

 

[gunsil]

Sorry, like the others say perhaps one of those stones pictured may have had a human hand involved in shaping it but the others are just natural rocks with no human relationship. There is no reason a "chief's nephew" would know any more about actual artifacts than you do. Many small museums have similar rocks mislabeled as artifacts because nobody knew better in the museum, the museum just listened to whoever donated the rocks. Small colleges often have nobody who is experienced in the field of stone artifacts. You will find more people on this forum with more hands on knowledge and experience in finding and identifying stone artifacts than you will almost anywhere else. I went to OU to study anthropology of the native American peoples and related archaeology and I assure you my professors would agree with those here who say your pieces shown so far are not anything more than naturally formed and worn rocks.
We here are not trying to put you or your efforts down, just trying to keep facts straight and help you learn about these things. A lot of people other than yourself come here with similar natural rocks asking if they are artifacts, most listen to the experts here, some will not desire to learn, and will always believe they have artifacts when they do not. I assure you that when you find an actual stone artifact and post it here you will get many appreciative replies and even often a time frame identification of the style and type of artifact. Keep hunting, but look at this site often to see what real artifacts look like and sooner or later you may find a great piece.

 

[tamrock]

These rocks are worth the amount of enjoyment you had in finding them imo. This one I think could be a core ??. The original rock from which portions were removed by forced pressure, resulting in a flake to product other finished stone tools, arrowheads or scrapers?.

 

[Edmundruffin]

Married once. two children, long lost parent/ friend. Lines in your palm speak more than the rocks.

 

[mcb66]

This forum has taken a turn for the weird lately. I love it when people look for interesting things, but they need to heed the advise of others and quite wasting their time picking up rocks.

 

[Carolina Tom]

I really like the "ducks head" stone and the bear effigy. And, yes, I see the warrior too.

The Chief's nephew is absolutely correct, being a Native American, I am sure that he is more "in tune" with these types of things.

Congrats on the nice finds, and pay no attention to the naysayers!

 

[Daryn]

Rocks are like clouds, everyone sees what they want to see and no two people see the same thing. Stop picking up rocks and look for the gold, silver, and jewels said the pirate to his men, arghhhhh. No really, stop looking at rocks.

 

[Yetie]

No question with the exception of one item in your pictures these are all naturally occurring rocks. Do an image search using the word Concretions. You will see hundreds of similar examples.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

These rocks are worth the amount of enjoyment you had in finding them imo. This one I think could be a core ??. The original rock from which portions were removed by forced pressure, resulting in a flake to product other finished stone tools, arrowheads or scrapers?.

Tamrock is correct all but the one with the pressure flakes removed that he copied are all natural rocks formed by erosion. Any shapes animal shapes being seen are from an active imagination...

 

[seekerGH]

the title is 'more stone artifacts', are there others? a rock by any other name is still just a rock.

sorry, but the nail job keeps freeking me out.