🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Need some opinions. Found this recently and can't decide if it's worked or natural. Looks like it has been pecked and is very semetrical but no grove

[Rockdog]

 

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[ToddsPoint]

I think it’s natural. It looks like hard limestone. That’s the wrong kind of rock to make an axe or celt.

 

[Blackfoot58]

Looks like a rock shaped by nature.

 

[Tony in SC]

Looks like a rock shaped by nature.

Shaped by erosion.

 

[Rockdog]

I tend to agree. It was just such an interesting shape that I hesitated to toss it without some other opinions. It was found in an area where I have found quite a few artifacts. Thanks for the feeback.

 

[Bucket Lister]

Looks like natural water shaping to me too.

I tend to agree. It was just such an interesting shape that I hesitated to toss it without some other opinions. It was found in an area where I have found quite a few artifacts. Thanks for the feeback.

Then keep it! I've got a box of interestingly-shaped rocks... someplace... 🙄

 

[Rockdog]

Looks like natural water shaping to me too.

Then keep it! I've got a box of interestingly-shaped rocks... someplace... 🙄

Me too! So i guess one more won't hurt. Lol

 

[Robot]

Hi Rockdog,
Welcome to the "Show"!

The Native Americans that originally lived in Arkansas were of the Caddo, Chickasaw, Osage, Quapaw, and Tunica tribes. It is apparent that the Osage, Caddo, and Quapaw inhabited the majority of the land.

The problem you will have here on this forum is...Even though, I would have liked to use this Rock as a tool, it shows no form of man made physical interaction?

Same looking stone from this area?

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[Treasure_Hunter]

Sorry, natural stone.

 

[pepperj]

Hi Rockdog,
Welcome to the "Show"!

The Native Americans that originally lived in Arkansas were of the Caddo, Chickasaw, Osage, Quapaw, and Tunica tribes. It is apparent that the Osage, Caddo, and Quapaw inhabited the majority of the land.

The problem you will have here on this forum is...Even though, I would have liked to use this Rock as a tool, it shows no form of man made physical interaction?

Same looking stone from this area?










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So what is the problem actually?

That a newbie asks for an opinion of the readership if the item was worked or natural.
Fact which they(the readership) probably have 3000 yrs combined of experience.

I understand that it was possible that a rock could of been used for a tool at some point without being worked.
But there's no real definitive proof it actually was. (no eyewitness accounts)

The readership says basically it has, or hasn't been worked by man.
This also gives the OP an honest opinion from the 1000's of yrs of experience.
If there is doubt the readership will state different options.

Any other answer as a "Maybe/possible/could have" leads the person down the path of collecting rocks that have a natural shape to them, as being a Native American Artifact.

The readership over the years has correctly ID hundreds of examples shown to be just rocks. ( Many are pretty cool looking works of nature I might add)

It's better to tell the simple truth than trying to whitewash or to be putting lipstick on a pig.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Without some kind of proof a stone was worked by man or has been used by man they are simply rocks. Just because a stone has a strange shape or fits someone's hand is no proof it is or ever was an artifact. It is like finding a coin dated 1776 and claim it once belonged to Thomas Jefferson.

One thing for sure Native Americans did not chip, peck or ground places on stones for their fingers or hands.