Fossilised heart ( human???)

[Ajkingdom8787]

I found what looks to be a petrified and agatized human heart. The anatomy is all correct and it’s the size of my fist like a human heart should be. I thought I was digging up petrified wood but it turned out to be a ton of fossils. I think this heart looking one is the most significant though.

 

[Kray Gelder]

Looks like this?

 

[GlowingGem]

Since am Sure humans weren't playing with hearts over 100 years back... bet it is that dino do do, or the replaced sediments that create the shape.

 

[pepperj]

Since am Sure humans weren't playing with hearts over 100 years back... bet it is that dino do do, or the replaced sediments that create the shape.

Around 3000 BCE, ancient Egyptians were one of the first civilizations to practice the removal and examination of the internal organs of humans in the religious practice of mummification.

 

[creskol]

Around 3000 BCE, ancient Egyptians were one of the first civilizations to practice the removal and examination of the internal organs of humans in the religious practice of mummification.

ah hahhh .. so THEY are the ones responsible for heart "attacks."

 

[pepperj]

In 44 BCE, Julius Caesar was the subject of an official autopsy after his murder by rival senators, the physician's report noting that the second stab wound Caesar received was the fatal one Julius Caesar had been stabbed a total of 23 times. By around 150 BCE, ancient Roman legal practice had established clear parameters for autopsies.

Though an autopsy and playing the hearts (100 yrs ago)are two separate things.
Playing with the heart strings is a whole different matter also.

 

[river roamer]

Interesting find

 

[Red-Coat]

Images of the hearts of various mammals have been created for around 30,000 years. The earliest known representation, recognisable by shape and anatomical location, is depicted in the mammoth or elephant painting in the Palaeolithic El Pindal Cave in Spain. Egyptian hieroglyphs from around 2,000BC include a heart depiction but it isn’t known if the glyph derives from a human heart or a bull. The oldest surviving depiction of a human heart with anatomical detail comes from the Olmec as an effigy vessel in the shape of a human heart (c900-1,200BC). The vessel has discernible features including a pulmonary artery, aorta, superior vena cava, interventricular succus and two ventricles. [Bendersky, 1997].

 

[Red-Coat]

Welcome to Tnet.

You have a very vivid imagination. I don’t know what that is, but it’s not a fossilised heart, whether human or otherwise. Fossil soft tissue in 3D requires some very special circumstances of preservation and is an extremely rare find. Perhaps you could tell us where you found this and say or show what fossils were found in association with it, to help determine its palaeontological age… if indeed it is actually a fossil. The earliest hominins don’t go back much more than about 4.2 million years (in Africa); anatomically modern humans have a much shorter history, and shorter still in the Americas.

The most common fossils mistaken for hearts are usually heart-shaped clams from the genus Protocardia (commonly from the Creatcaceous of Texas), but it doesn’t appear to be a clam from what I can see in your pictures.

 

[GlowingGem]

Around 3000 BCE, ancient Egyptians were one of the first civilizations to practice the removal and examination of the internal organs of humans in the religious practice of mummification.

I mean medically able to do surgery and such. I know about Egyptian history.

 

[GlowingGem]

On second glance it looks s lot like modern cement to me. And has rounded groves, for stop sign like poles go into(were formed around,,).

 

[jgoetz4]

Interesting find. A friend of mine found what she thought was a petrified heart in Arizona, over 40 yrs ago. I don't believe it is a heart, but maybe a fossil.
Jim