Prehistoric clay disks found in northwestern Alaska

Reuters ^ | September 9, 2011 | Yereth Rosen

[ApplegateRanch]

Okay, they found the prehistoric clay pigeons; but, they will never find prehistoric shotgun shells: if they had had them, the clays would have been broken.

(Just imagine a future archaeologist, after a complete collapse, then painstaking 20,000 year climb back to civilization, stumbling upon a trove of clay pigeons, and trying to figure out the ‘ritual significance’ of them.)

[ApplegateRanch]

That is a ritual object, used in the secret, sacred fertility ceremonies of the Sand Dollar Cult.

[PIF]

Fish nets for shallow waters. There are several varieties which used stones or clay as weights for the bottom lines (lead line) in beach seines.

[SunkenCiv]

This find is obviously a fraud!!! How could any scientist possibly know that these were called “clay disks” if they’re prehistoric?!? ;’)

[SunkenCiv]

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[bert]

-—Probably Russian Frisbees.——

Russian....now we’re getting somewhere.

I guess ear decorations...... vanity is ageless

[Rebelbase]

"It is irksome"

[King Moonracer]

Is this a new way to stop additional drilling? let’s hear for Obama’s $10 a gallon gasoline.

[beebuster2000]

1,000 years ago is hardly pre-historic

[decimon]

1,000 years ago is hardly pre-historic

"The disks were found during a summer expedition in Noatak National Preserve, at a site where archeologists have for decades been studying lakefront pit dwellings that date back 1,000 years..."

[gleeaikin]

If the disc is in the palm of a hand then it is small. Aren’t there things like that used on a spindle to cause it to spin to make yarn?? Is that some kind of incised writing?

[SunkenCiv]

Weights on nets was also suggested. Thanks glee’.

[SunkenCiv]

1,000 years ago in Alaska, yeah, it was prehistoric — prehistory just means before writing, and there was no known writing system in Alaska prior to colonization.

[beebuster2000]

by that definition some places in the US today are prehistoric

[mad_as_he$$]

The first one says: “Frack Winter is long here!” and the second says: “ I am not sharing the wife!”