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Crude stone "tools" found in northern Minnesota may be at least 13,000 years old
National Geographic website ^ | February 15, 2007 | Stefan Lovgren

Posted on 02/19/2007 5:31:38 AM PST by TXnMA

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If this is the best example of a stone "tool" from their assemblage, I'll definitely wait to call them ,"man-made tools" until after I have examined them under (at least) a stereomicroscope...

I see no clear evidence of knapping on this one. It looks like a "geofact" (naturally chipped pebble) to me.

1 posted on 02/19/2007 5:31:40 AM PST by TXnMA
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To: blam; SunkenCiv; Coyoteman

Heads up! Minnesota "tool" (or "geofact") photo...


2 posted on 02/19/2007 5:34:03 AM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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If this is the best example of a stone "tool" from their assemblage, I'll definitely wait to call them ,"man-made tools" until after I have examined them under (at least) a stereomicroscope...

It's the middle of February, and it's been cold as hell up here. That could be a potato!

3 posted on 02/19/2007 5:34:17 AM PST by Egon ("If all your friends were named Cliff, would you jump off them??" - Hugh Neutron)
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Yeah... I'm not sure why a 13,000 year old stone tool would be quite that crude anyway. We're not talking Australopithicus, here.


4 posted on 02/19/2007 5:35:09 AM PST by Brilliant
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THAT'S where I left them!! Silly me.


5 posted on 02/19/2007 5:36:11 AM PST by Reaganesque
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Crude stone "tools" found in northern Minnesota may be at least 13,000 years old, a team of archaeologists recently announced.

Probably has this guy's fingerprints on them:


6 posted on 02/19/2007 5:39:48 AM PST by capydick (Better to Fight for Something Than to Live for Nothing)
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We're not talking Australopithicus, here.

Exactly! Are we supposed to believe that Early Americans' lithihic technology leaped from this "dinged pebble" to the sophisticated and beautiful (...and still tough-to-replicate with primitive knapping tools) Clovis points -- in only one thousand years?!?

7 posted on 02/19/2007 5:40:50 AM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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Let me know if they find that pair of waterpump pliers I lost last week.


8 posted on 02/19/2007 5:41:30 AM PST by sgtbono2002 (I will forgive Jane Fonda, when the Jews forgive Hitler.)
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Early loser of stone tools.


9 posted on 02/19/2007 5:42:49 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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Not all who managed those early trips to America were equally versed in flint knapping.
10 posted on 02/19/2007 5:55:30 AM PST by muawiyah
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That was discarded last week by a Minnesota auto mechanic that voted for Jesse Ventura and Keith Ellison


11 posted on 02/19/2007 5:55:46 AM PST by WBL 1952
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To: TXnMA

Man lived here BEFORE the "virgin" forests sprang up.


12 posted on 02/19/2007 5:56:19 AM PST by DManA
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They're about as Neanderthal as Minnissota's political class -- the original cirque sans soleil.


13 posted on 02/19/2007 5:56:51 AM PST by Juan Medén
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Great, great Pappap Sven swears he laid that hammer on the anvil and it came up missing. My Great Papap took a whoopin' for it and went to his grave swearing he was innocent.


14 posted on 02/19/2007 5:58:06 AM PST by knarf (Islamists kill each other ... News wall-to-wall, 24/7 .. don't touch that dial.)
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Intersting Story. This is off-topic, but would any of you mind looking at these pics of some lithics i found behind my house and let me know what you think they are? I think there was an encampment here on my place, but I don't have any idea how to date these things.

I just realized from looking through this gallery some of my best pieces aren't posted here yet.

Rocks Pictures

15 posted on 02/19/2007 6:08:13 AM PST by cf_river_rat (Just another defender of the faith)
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Probably belonged to one of the ancient hard working Mexican pre-illegals that worked his ancestral land before we stole it 13,000 years ago!!!!


16 posted on 02/19/2007 6:12:07 AM PST by WesternPacific
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Looks like a nice skipper, or at the very least a heaverite. Just heave it right over there.
17 posted on 02/19/2007 6:12:19 AM PST by lmailbvmbipfwedu
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You need to talk to an archeologist. I'd call over to the nearest university and find out who to talk to. You might even find someone who's interested in doing a little excavating on your property. Get an agreement with them that you'll own what they find.


18 posted on 02/19/2007 6:12:52 AM PST by Brilliant
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I used to "grow" these in my garden in Huntington, CT back in the '70s. Every spring, I would have to mine the garden patch of rocks that surfaced during the freeze/thaw period.


19 posted on 02/19/2007 6:24:16 AM PST by FLCowboy, (Ironically, Gore notes that he has run for president twice and says: "I know what it takes to win.?)
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What am I missing here? How much will a museum pay me to exhibit my collection of "tools".


20 posted on 02/19/2007 6:31:23 AM PST by word_warrior_bob (You can now see my amazing doggie and new puppy on my homepage!! Come say hello to Jake & Sonny)
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