✅ SOLVED Chumash Artifact?

[canamrider]

I found this yesterday out on my quad. Anyone seen anything like this? I live in a area where the Chumash Indians once were.

 

[Charl]

I think it may be a natural rock rather then an artifact, IMHO...

 

[painterx7]

If it were chert I'd say just a big reduction flake but I can't tell what the material is

 

[canamrider]

I am no expert, it looks like granite and the rock type was different from anything around. There are to many edges and it is to symmetrical to say that it is natural rock, and you can see vertical scratch marks on one side. I found this on dirt with no other rocks around on a part of a mountain that few if anybody goes to. Again I am no expert.

 

[painterx7]

I'm sure someone in your area knows it looks like it maybe man altered but I am no expert and know little about granite as there is very little if any in my area ...I would of picked it up lol

 

[rock]

Welcome to the site. Its just too hard to see. Nice shape to it.

 

[canamrider]

Thanks guys, I will let you know what if I find out about this.

 

[unclemac]

give us both sides....

 

[canamrider]

give us both sides....

I have been checking into this and found that there must be "stikes" to have this manmade? I can see markings on the stone and I was able to get a closer picture without blurring. There are other strikes that are on the other edges, some run perpendicular to the edge. Let me know if this is anything. I am a complete novice on this, know nothing....

 

[unclemac]

the curve makes me think that this was a naturally eroding flake from a larger boulder....

 

[Wyoming Valley Relics]

Have no doubt it is not just a natural rock. It has definitely been altered... smashed into pieces at some point. Could be something, you never know. A lot of people around here been hunting these relics a long time and feel pretty confident in there opinions. Even with that said looking on the internet isn't the same as holding a artifact in your hand. Even experts get fooled.

As you said , it was an out of place rock. Something brought it there. but from how the item was manufactured it doesn't appear to be native american.

 

[larson1951]

natural odd shaped rock
thanks for posting

welcome aboard to the Tnet canamridder

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Your pictures on Arrowheadology were much clearer and showed that it had absolutely no work on it at all. It is a naturally fractured piece of Granite.

 

[Charl]

Your pictures on Arrowheadology were much clearer and showed that it had absolutely no work on it at all. It is a naturally fractured piece of Granite.

No brainer natural rock.....