Arkansas River bed find

[schreib69]

You could put some of the controversy to rest by taking a grinder to the lower left corner and cutting into it. Look for depth of the darkened borders vs the rest. NICE find.

 

[Gold Maven]

looks like a carved stone to me.
whatever it is, it's been in the river for a while.

 

[Slim_Pickins]

Can anyone tell me what this is? I found this in a river bed in Arkansas

I would take it to a museum. And have someone look it over. nature does not make those kind of patterns.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

I would take it to a museum. And have someone look it over. nature does not make those kind of patterns.

Nature can do wonders, here is the same pattern also found in Kansas. It is just a single vertebrae piece that had been found, it would continue to be squares stacked since it is the vertebrae and fossils of the fish have been found over 12 feet long

Vertebrae Cretaceous era fish Niobrara.​

Here is a picture of a fossil showing the vertebra up close

The whole beast.

 

[sarahs.stuff]

Can anyone tell me what this is? I found this in a river bed in Arkansas

 

[sarahs.stuff]

Can anyone tell me what this is? I found this in a river bed in Arkansas

It's really neat! I think it may have a chance of being a very early messege stone that may have been in transit to another chief or a seal of a chief so the recipient knows who and where the the message came from and that it's official. I would go to a museum and find someone well versed in native history. If you go straight to a tribe you might not see the artifact again. Good luck!

 

[unclemac]

do you just make this stuff up as you go along? They OP needs facts not fantasy.

 

[JVA5th]

Can't tell you what it is natural or not a very cool piece. It regardless will look good as a decorative piece.

 

[Older The Better]

I hate to be this way but how are going backwards on this? Are we not reading previous posts? A stone with the same patterns from the same state wasn’t a good enough explanation?

 

[detectorcowboy]

Pretty sure it's a stone age credit card

 

[hollARDog]

You do realize these are huge rock you can climb on! Not a piece of pottery with tiny squares made by hand like the OP is showing.

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I hate to be this way but how are going backwards on this? Are we not reading previous posts? A stone with the same patterns from the same state wasn’t a good enough explanation?
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[hollARDog]

I think it's part of a punch card for entry into a ancient spacecraft 😎

 

[Older The Better]

You do realize these are huge rock you can climb on! Not a piece of pottery with tiny squares made by hand like the OP is showing.

Judging by the leaves I’d say you are mistaken, even so it’s proof that there are natural processes acting on the stone, a cube of salt can be the size of a baseball or microscopic. The size of a formation is irrelevant in this case

 

[hollARDog]

My bad, guess I was walking on them in a dream😉
The OP is holding a small piece,with small art work on it.
Your pics are natural rock formations. One weighs grams, one weighs tons. One has small art work by hand, the other has very cool natural geo type shapes. But hey, I'm a stoner so who cares🙃

 

[Older The Better]

Stone can and does break from its parent rock and end up in the river, that’s what gravel bars are, I don’t see any reason why a small piece of this formation couldn’t do the same. Again I’ve presented a natural formation occurring in the same state with the same geometric shapes there’s even a section with smaller boxes next to larger boxes… I can’t help anyone that doesn’t want to see that. I also respect the opinions of other members that have called it natural, they’ve helped many people with correct id’s

 

[theboogieman]

I want to thank everyone for your opinions. At this point I don't believe this is a natural stone. I've been to Petit Jean state park many times and walked on the "turtle stones" and "box stones" this is considerably smaller and much more detailed. I am going to take the advice of some of the community and reach out to a museum and hear their opinions.

 

[unclemac]

good idea, keep us posted. I send these types of questions to my local museum. They have been very helpful.

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[newnan man]

Unless the museum has a real archeologist or paleontologist on staff which is only in very large museums with lots of funding you will not get anything other than an opinion from a volunteer or staffer. They actually know very little.

 

[hollARDog]

The University could be of some help🤘

 

[unclemac]

The Burke is the University of Washington's research and teaching facility. Highly respected and full of heavy hitters in multiple branches of knowledge. I have used them often for inquires.