Artifact? Found near arrowheads and native pottery

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[Charl]

Those type of rocks and stones went into my rock garden.

A field I hunt has almost no rocks whatsoever in it, other then fire stones and actual artifacts and flakes. I might have seen a dozen rocks in that field in decades of walking it. Very unusual for a New England field. I have found 2 colorful pebbles, polished, plus a fossil in it, over a 25 year period. All so out of place, given the complete dearth of any other rocks, that they went into the assemblage, rather then a rock garden, but then I'm an apartment dweller anyway, and have no garden. But that's my contextual knowledge that allows me to collect with more confidence then would be the case in a more commonly occurring rocky New England field. And that contextual knowledge is unique for each and every one of us. And unique to each and every location. If one knows something is just ridiculously out of place, such speculation is not out of the ordinary. After all, manuports are a known occurance on sites, and shaman stones themselves, by definition, are manuports.

Gizzard stone was mentioned. Gastrolth, which I mentioned, is the same thing. Most people associate them with dinosaurs, and today, with birds. Worth noting, though, that birds are in fact avian dinosaurs, the one branch of dinosaurs that survived extinction. It could very well be a gizzard stone at that, but I'm not sure if there are any physical examination tests that can confirm such a thing.

 

[unclemac]

How were flat round stones used for pottery?

you rub the side of the dry but not yet fired clay pot with a smooth stone and it burnishes the vessel to a shiny glaze like finish.