🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Stone scraper?

[iamsherlocked333]

Found in central Alberta near a butchered bone, could this be a scraper of some sort? No other rocks in the area like it and fits in the hand remarkably well, even down to the individual grooves of the finger.

 

[newnan man]

It is just a natural rock. It is not sharp, not a material that would have been used, no evidence of any man-made worked edges. Most stones that size will " fit your hand."

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Sorry as Newman said, it is natural stone, not artifact.

 

[UnderMiner]

Use it as a scraper yourself, then toss it back in the woods, in 10,000 years someone may find it and ask "is this a stone scraper?" Experts will say no, but they won't ever know that for one brief time it indeed was used that way, by you, if only to prove a point - that it's really quite impossible to determine what a random rock may have been used for once. And the people of the future will toss it back into the woods ignorant to its unique history.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Use it as a scraper yourself, then toss it back in the woods, in 10,000 years someone may find it and ask "is this a stone scraper?" Experts will say no, but they won't ever know that for one brief time it indeed was used that way, by you, if only to prove a point - that it's really quite impossible to determine what a random rock may have been used for once. And the people of the future will toss it back into the woods ignorant to its unique history.

Sorry, but using that scenario every rock on the ground would be an artifact, without some kind of signs of either being worked or used it's just a rock.

 

[UnderMiner]

Sorry, but using that scenario every rock on the ground would be an artifact, without some kind of signs of either being worked or used it's just a rock.

Exactly. I was thinking to myself a few days ago, as I looked upon a riverbank made entirely of stones, how countless creatures moved between them in the very instance I was there to see them. Snakes, lizards, frogs, etc. And I knew as well that this place was once home to a stone age settlement, and the feet of our ancient human ancestors once trod on these stones, undobtedly some of the stones I too now stepped on. I got to thinking, not only were these stones manipulated by modern wild animals and the footsteps of our stone age ancestors, but also dinosaurs, ice age creatures, lightning strikes, and a whole assortment of other natural wonders. That is when I realized the true connection to our past isn't confined to just specific artifacts, but the entire natural world around us. The sky above our heads, the very air we breathe, to say the least about the stones beneath our feet, it's the same world as theirs. So yes, it is just a rock.