Posted on 09/09/2011 5:56:11 PM PDT by decimon
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Four decorated clay disks have been discovered at a prehistoric site in Alaska, apparently the first artifacts of their type discovered in the state, the University of Alaska Museum of the North said.
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, officials at the Fairbanks museum said.
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Such prehistoric rock art is extremely rare in interior and northern Alaska, though common in the southwestern part of the United States and other regions, museum and Park Service officials said.
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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.)
That is a ritual object, used in the secret, sacred fertility ceremonies of the Sand Dollar Cult.
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.
This find is obviously a fraud!!! How could any scientist possibly know that these were called “clay disks” if they’re prehistoric?!? ;’)
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-—Probably Russian Frisbees.——
Russian....now we’re getting somewhere.
I guess ear decorations...... vanity is ageless
Is this a new way to stop additional drilling? let’s hear for Obama’s $10 a gallon gasoline.
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..."
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?
Weights on nets was also suggested. Thanks glee’.
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.
by that definition some places in the US today are prehistoric
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