EVER seen ANYTHING like this before?

[BloodMoon]

Wasn’t even looking. Stone was solidly embedded in ground and I kicked it several times until it flipped over. It was covered in hardened dirt. I thought I saw something on it so I cleaned it off and wow, wasn’t expecting this. It was next to my home in a gated community just over the
Wall where there is a canal. Arizona.

THEN, I broke a dirt clod next to it snd this popped out!


Anyone seen anything like this stone before?

 

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[BloodMoon]

Thanks. Great feedback. It’s funny cause I was born and raised in Louisville, KY. lived in Plainview off Hurtborne Ln. every thing you just mentioned I have found right here in AZ. It was all located in a fairly confined area, but nothing was easy to find.
Here are a few more images I unearthed that you mentioned in your post. It’s almost like it was a trading post or something.

Hi Bloodmoon, cool of you to circle back on this post.

More than a couple of points in that bin look a lot like points from the Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee area.

How big of an area did all this come from? Spread over acres, or concentrated into to smaller area?

They obviously didn't, but everything you have posted in the bin could have come from one of the flower beds at a house I used to own in Louisville Kentucky. (Pot shards, crystals, paint rocks, polished rocks, broken points, some South American relics, shells from the beach, antlers, etc. In a hundred years if it's found it could confuse someone if somehow it were taken out of context.)

 

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[joshuaream]

The first piece looks like half of a very nice wing bannerstone. Depending on the material, those are more often found in Illinois, Iowa & Wisconsin. The second piece is likely to be a hornstone (or related chert) cache biface from the Ohio River valley.

You've got some midwestern stuff there that spans probably better than 8000 years of history (early Archaic into Woodland), might be a Snowbird retiree who's collection ended up dumped out there some how? (Wouldn't be the first collection to be tossed by relatives cleaning up a house.) I can't see any scenario where those items ended up in Arizona in prehistoric times.

 

[joshuaream]

It’s funny cause I was born and raised in Louisville, KY. lived in Plainview off Hurtborne Ln.

I know where that is. We lived about 5-10 minutes north of there. Small world.

I'd keep checking that spot. Those aren't just common broken items you are finding, there might be some really nice things out there.

 

[Kantuckkeean]

I know where that is. We lived about 5-10 minutes north of there. Small world.

I'd keep checking that spot. Those aren't just common broken items you are finding, there might be some really nice things out there.

Agreed. The drills, axe heads, and some of the points are pretty nice.

Kindest regards,
Kantuck

 

[dognose]

I would think that if it IS old - then there are likely others either in other collections or still to be found. That you found the only one of a kind item, the odds would be astronomical.

I have never seen anything like it and have my doubts as it being old.

However I am not in expert in south west relics by any stretch.

Have you taken this to be inspected by any professional archaeologist or [FONT=Helvetica, sans-serif, DDG_ProximaNova, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_1, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_2, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_3, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_4, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_5, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_6]Paleontologist in your area?

Have you taken this to any rock shows and/or relic shows in the area to get the word out to other collectors in your area?[/FONT]