Help please! Know its a rock but could it be an artifact?

[diegocastellano]

Hello and good day to you. Any ideas on this rock? Open to any possible ideas since left with the question of what kinda trouble I could be in. Already tried the univ.of KS and said it was a rock with sediment on it. So they don't care, only I do. Ks is on the bible belt so the face that's on there is already gonna be Taboo! Not that I am any kinda archaeologist, am learning fast! Only 2 people who bothered to answered, one said its an Manuport, other said its an artifact. So I am left to do the work myself. Okay what harm can it do right? What if somebody carried that rock from somewhere and brought it to KS. Why? It had to mean something to someone. Could have came from Russia over the so-called land bridge: only because of the fact it looks like a brown bear in sunlight! Funny is it not using what if's, what they do! Then we have the cave, house or mountain. Who knows what symbols they used at the time. Then the bird, yes its a bird and not a plane God forbid!! In the end we find things, or should say they find us. Is there any meanings to all of this? Who knows, I'll keep looking for stuff till I die! How about you? Thanks for any info you might have, the rock thanks you!

 

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[Bigcypresshunter]

You seem very knowlegable about rocks HPD.

 

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[High Plains Digger]

Lots of reading, some field experience, a lot of general interest, little technical training. And a hobby business that includes gemstones, rocks, minerals, and jewelry. I guess that when you make family trips to Arkasas to dig diamonds and quartz, the east coast to find shark teeth, England to find pyritized ammonites, and central Utah to dig trilobites and topaz, yea, some knowledge gets accidently absorbed. This is a good place to make some accidental learning happen, also.

 

[diegocastellano]

Now is the important part: If that rock has meaning and significance to you, so be it. Put it in your display case and enjoy it.

I agree. Its a pretty rock. I just dont see anything man made.

I find pretty river rocks here in South Florida all the time. The only native rock we have is coral rock and limestone and we have no smooth river rocks of any sort. Rocks come from other states for use in driveways and landscaping. Tourists also bring back pretty rocks as a reminder of a vacation. They often get tossed in the flower bed, driveway or ditch. In todays day and age there are no boundaries. To suggest it may have come from Russia over the land bridge is wild imagination IMO.

Its a pretty rock. Thanks for posting, we can all learn from it. But I think the word "artifact" does not apply.

Okay, will go with the not an artifact, what would be the odds? I'm gonna work with the word Manuport for awhile though. Only because the tern seems lame and since we really don't know what they did way back then, who knows. Yes the land bridge is a crazy idea, only few years ago out here they were digging in Goodland to find that out. Actually it was twice but found nothing. Thanks for the help though, by Friday I'll concider it closed. Buy the way, somebody did call yesterday from Japan Research Ins. Only was out looking for the ghost town in Atwood. Maybe I'll start a rock shop in KS, do lots of reading, and go from there. Give or take a few years though!

 

[diegocastellano]

Lots of reading, some field experience, a lot of general interest, little technical training. And a hobby business that includes gemstones, rocks, minerals, and jewelry. I guess that when you make family trips to Arkasas to dig diamonds and quartz, the east coast to find shark teeth, England to find pyritized ammonites, and central Utah to dig trilobites and topaz, yea, some knowledge gets accidently absorbed. This is a good place to make some accidental learning happen, also.

Boy I always wanted to do that. Heared that in someplaces you just pay to go in and dig all you want! Did see it on TV and some books I have read. Can't remember the show but they went to OR and found some fire stones Had them cleaned up and cut, paid like $50.00 to get in after they were done with the show, sold the stone for $5,500 dollars. Total cost was like $500 for the day! Thanks for your help High Plains.

 

[allen_idaho]

I don't understand the white and brown rocks. Alan, you got some splainin to do.

Sorry. Should have been more clear. The image is not mine, it's from somewhere else. The brown rock in the image is a piece of chert. The white rock is something else. The arrows were just pointing to some fossils embedded in them.

 

[High Plains Digger]

There are a lot of fee-dig places. Pala mines in Calif for Tourmaline. Georgia has rose quartz and very excellent amethyst. The sunstone you mentioned is in Oregon. Copper in No. Michigan. Opal in Spencer, Id and Virgin Valley (Calif?), trilobites in Utah, and hundreds of places in N. Georgia, S. Carolina, No. Carolina area for rubies, emeralds and sapphires, but I suspect those are heavily salted. And gold in Alaska.

I watched the program you saw. I also saw the one where she found an emerald in No. Carolina. The one the guy cut into a fantastic gem was NOT the one she found. They received a million dollars of publicity by trading a few hundred dollars in emerald cut into a nice stone.

And by the way, the "estimated value" of that stone in Oregon, and the others offered at the mine were greatly exaggerated. They can be purchased for a lot less money when you are not at the mine. Or on location: Opals in Coober Peady, Australia, Tanzanite in Tanzania, etc.

Sorry, I am not aware of a fee dig site in Nebraska or Kansas. Closest I know is Ruby Mtn. state park in Buena Vista, Co. that used to cost a buck, there is a fossil dig area near Florrisent Co, and in Utah there are trilobite digs, but the topaz was a state rec. area an was no charge. And you can go fishing in Wyoming. That one is on my list. Several different fee dig sites near Kemmerer.

 

[High Plains Digger]

Thanks Alan. I suspected they were fossils, but I didn't know if you were showing chert or flint or what.
One of my favorite fossils is in a piece of chert (or flint or jasper or whatever). It was worked into a knife or scraper, and there was a bivalve that would fit right between your thumb and forefinger as you grabbed it to use it. Made for a very comfortable tool to use.

 

[Tigger]

Thanks Alan. I suspected they were fossils, but I didn't know if you were showing chert or flint or what.
One of my favorite fossils is in a piece of chert (or flint or jasper or whatever). It was worked into a knife or scraper, and there was a bivalve that would fit right between your thumb and forefinger as you grabbed it to use it. Made for a very comfortable tool to use.

Wow! What a great find. The bivalve is a brachiopod.
I googled "Kansas, rockhounding" and got these two sites you should check out:
http://www.rockhounds.com/rockshop/clubs/kansas.shtml
http://cash-and-treasures-wiki.travelchannel.com/thread/3877898/rockhounding+in+kansas
Whenever I go to a different state, I google to see what places and kinds of rocks we could find. It's fun, free (I skip fee places), great exercise and gets you outdoors.
Rocks rock!!
Tigger

 

[stilllookin]

I thought you may be interested. When I see your rock it reminded me of one I found on Lake Champlain in VT a couple years ago. To say the least it is interesting to look at.

 

[olroy70]

I have found many grinding rocks with a buildup on it. Usually on the surface of the rock. I have also found points with the same kind of buildup. I vote artifact from what I can see!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Monty]

More than likely it's just a common river rock. I found about a ton of them around my daughter's house being used for ornamentation around her flower beds. She lives in Red Rock, Texas, just outside Austin. They look like an Idaho potato until you pick one up. Fairly common rock. Monty