Couple more nutting stones!

[choo]

I went creek hunting Wednesday & found a couple more nutting stones! The red one is really cool has multiple cups on both sides!

 

[Tesorodeoro]

That looks natural, nothing man made.

Exactly! That was the reason I posted those images in the first place. It looks completely natural from that point of view..from this point of view, it clearly looks man made. Many of the cupules are lined up in rows in a pattern. All of the pictures are of the same stone. I suppose one could argue that the boulder had natural cupule divots and they just added more to it. Or it could be they used the rock in annual ceremonies since the first salmon run as stated. I also wanted to point out that not all cupules are associated with utilitarian purposes such as food preparation and that the characteristics of the stone do not always have to match what would be suitable for utilitarian purposes. Sandstone is also another commonly used stone for these types of cupules.

 

[Gold Maven]

I read an interesting article in the Ohio Archeologist about nutting stones.
The author was a flint knapper, and used an antler base to flake the flint, he said it would need dressed quite often, because the flint would tear it up.
sandstone works well for this, as you dress the antler, a cup is formed.
When it gets too deep, you start another.
This makes perfect sense to me, I never bought the theory that they were cracking one nut at a time. The theory is an acorn is hard to crack, so they needed the cup.
I say they only ate acorns in a pinch, Chestnuts had to be a major food source for them, Chestnut trees dominated the prehistoric forest, and they are way better than acorns.
Old theories die hard, and I have met major resistance when suggesting that these cup stones were not for nuts.
It makes sense to me, what do you guys think?