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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2015 14:51:10 GMT -5
Ever found any neat artifacts IRL? Knapped obsidian tool head, found two weeks ago:  Tomhawk, found last Spring:  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2015 9:25:33 GMT -5
Yeah we have a bunch of those in our back yard. One looks like it might've been a double-bladed axe head, another was definitely a hammer or mallet. A few arrowheads, and then a bunch of knife-like blades. All knapped. Mostly quartzes of various types except the hammer/mallet thing. Not sure what kind of rock it is. That one's not knapped, it's either chiselled or someone was really good at smacking stones against other stones to make them chip off into actual tool shapes.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2015 13:21:26 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2015 13:24:15 GMT -5
From left to right:
Mortar. Scraper with fossil inclusion. Small scraper. Broken point. Broken point. Broken point. Scraper until the end, and then... Pestle.
Potentially as old as 8k years.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2015 13:33:05 GMT -5
 Assorted flint/chalcedony/chert/agate flakes/shards. Couple of obsidian flakes... Some jasper, too. Varying grades. Intermingled with many many microtools and scrapers. Sick fucking knife or reworked spearhead:  |
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Post by mood on Oct 4, 2015 17:28:46 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2015 16:25:45 GMT -5
Chalcedony/chert/flint/obsidian that I found deep in the mountains, where white people have only been exclusively since 1890.
Radiocarbon dating establishes humanity has inhabited the area since 8000 years ago, but Colorado paleoindian archaeologists speculate that it extends considerably further back.
Any my archaeologists in the audience care to help me search for in situ evidence of mammoth hunting?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2015 16:29:24 GMT -5
Mood I live in a single wide with two sixty years olds, and for some reason I thought it was a good idea to have a few hundred books brought out to me.
After sleeping on the floor on this incredibly small room, I recently procured a cot that leaves me a solid 2'x5' walking area.
Mostly I keep it pretty clean, and while it might seem less than ideal, my rent is paid up through August and has been since July... So there's that.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2015 17:05:22 GMT -5
 First two rows at the bottom are mostly incomplete points. Above them is a row of scraping tools that all seem similarly sized and fashioned; to the left in the baggies are red stone artifacts. Possibly jasper or a red type of volcanic stone. The second to top row contains some interesting stones. The first is a chert wedge-shaped tool, the second appears to be a carved crystal artifacf that, though the exterior is weather significantly, a break displays an interior that is literally crystal-clear. To the right of that is what appears to be a knapped shard of translucent agate, and the yellow piece to its right is one of the strangest stones I've found in Colorado. It is an agate of sort, and it almost appears as if it were once part of an impressive spearhead. However, agates often have a jagged appearance like that, so it's hard to say conclusively that it's cultural without inspection by a professional despite the fact that it was found in an artifact laden area. To the right of the yellow piece of a non-glassy stone with several distinguishable serrations and an edge that had been reworked, which was common practice. The black flint or obsidian took head to its right is one I have posted before, but I've since cleaned it up a bit. The yellow staining on its surface seems human applied but I'm uncertain. Finally, there is a piece of white stone that can be alikened most to ivory, porcelain, or maybe marble. Some who I've shown it to have claimed its white obsidian, but I'm not even sure that exists. Anyway, many of us have spent literally days typing "forage artifact," so I though you might enjoy the real world fruits of this. unfortunately I haven't found and sapphires, charred human skulls, or krathis in Colorado, so it is uncertain whether or not I will succeed in my attempt to make RANGZ in the near or distant future. |
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Post by topkekm8s on Oct 19, 2015 11:58:55 GMT -5
Diggin the rock collection
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Post by delerak on Nov 2, 2015 2:37:23 GMT -5
That's badass.
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Post by jonsmith on Feb 7, 2016 3:42:51 GMT -5
I'll ask... Why? Are those worth money or something? Otherwise... WHY?
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Post by BitterFlashback on Feb 7, 2016 5:20:50 GMT -5
They're actual relics. They don't need to be worth a lot; people like connections to the past like that.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2016 14:10:47 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2016 14:51:16 GMT -5
I have taken THREE people searching with me. the first, a 19 year old asian kid whose success I credit with him being way shorter and easy to see the ground, found a REAL dime sized arrowhead, fully intact, within a half hour of searching. His girlfriend from NH almost found a lot of beautiful knapped shards. My other buddy, Danger Sloth, who helped me sell a ton of dope back in Mississippi (he never ever got in trouble for it- don't be a snitch and you got friends for life), came out in October, and we hiked miles back into the hills. He found a fist-sized spearhead... I could tell it was a spearhead because its notchings were HUGE, but distinct to arrowheads. Apparently, at one time it had been broken and filed down to a scraper of sorts. drunkendwarf - gotta get you down from the Front Range once the snow's gone and the ground's clear enough to look again. FWIW, I have NEVER DUG into the ground in that area, but god knows what I'd find it I did. Also, I HAVE contacted a group of archaeologists about this, but they said I need more formal schooling. |
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