My Nicest Pendent

[GB Paleo]

Here is the nicest Pendent from my collection. Found in the Great Basin many, many years ago.

 

[newnan man]

Nice, that etching is something else.

 

[southfork]

Very nice rescue and rare artifact . Is it incised on both sides ?

 

[Tdog]

Very nice. Do you know the material?

 

[GB Paleo]

Dennis....yes it has similar etching on the other side. Unfortunately I don't have a picture handy showing the other side. I'll get a picture of the other side and add it to the thread

 

[GB Paleo]

Tdog, I think it is a slate like material but don't know a technical name for it. The reddish color on it appears to be some kind of staining. It was a surface find in a sand dune type area. It almost looks like a red ocher-ish stain to me but wasn't in close proximity to other artifacts.

 

[Fat]

That is really nice. It does look like red ocre stain. Do you still keep that area picked up?

 

[GB Paleo]

Fat, I wish.....Its been off limits now for many years

 

[Fat]

Dang I shoulda know, I’m slow learner...

 

[antmike915]

Excellent example

 

[GB Paleo]

Very nice rescue and rare artifact . Is it incised on both sides ?

I added the other side for you Dennis.......except I can't get it turned upright?

 

[southfork]

Thanks looks great sideways .

 

[Tdog]

Tdog, I think it is a slate like material but don't know a technical name for it. The reddish color on it appears to be some kind of staining. It was a surface find in a sand dune type area. It almost looks like a red ocher-ish stain to me but wasn't in close proximity to other artifacts.

Thanks. I remember from one of the now defunct archaeology sites where a west coast member (California I believe) used to find a few relics he said were made of fused shale (dark gray or black) and I was wondering whether your pendant was made of this. I can not for the life of me remember his user name but I think he was friends with a couple of women there whose user names were Chardonnay and Too Tall!

 

[Tony in SC]

That's about as good as it gets!!!

 

[GB Paleo]

Thanks. I remember from one of the now defunct archaeology sites where a west coast member (California I believe) used to find a few relics he said were made of fused shale (dark gray or black) and I was wondering whether your pendant was made of this. I can not for the life of me remember his user name but I think he was friends with a couple of women there whose user names were Chardonnay and Too Tall!

Tdog, I think that might have been Great Basin Man? This Pendent I believe is a different material from Fused Shale.

 

[southfork]

Tdog, I think that might have been Great Basin Man? This Pendent I believe is a different material from Fused Shale.

That was the posse they were friends of Great Basin Man and hunted together before they got spooked ? The material was shale ridge glass from the south side of tulare lake basin sharks teeth also .

 

[Tdog]

That was the posse they were friends of Great Basin Man and hunted together before they got spooked ? The material was shale ridge glass from the south side of tulare lake basin sharks teeth also .

That is absolutely correct Dennis. I remember them getting spooked and bailing out from the web site!

 

[southfork]

Tdog, I think that might have been Great Basin Man? This Pendent I believe is a different material from Fused Shale.

Sure looks like slate from the west side of the Sierras ? I don't recall black slate out in the basin .

 

[GB Paleo]

Sure looks like slate from the west side of the Sierras ? I don't recall black slate out in the basin .

I have several similar broken black slate like
Pieces from all over the basin. This one came from an area closer to Vegas

 

[H.P.]

Don’t know much about those but I can spot a first class artifact, that’s it.