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Does anyone know what the flint stone is? Indian tool? Need indian history buffs...
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| 3 December 2021
| Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin
Posted on 12/03/2021 3:32:40 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Anyone know for what this stone was used? It's flint, and that hole did not get put there by water. A friend thinks it's either a fire starter or grain/herb pestle. Anyone able to help? Thanks in advance.
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: flint; flintstones; godsgravesglyphs; indian; stone; tool
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Wondering if anyone out there is knowledgeable about indian artifacts.
To: SunkenCiv
You may be interested in this.
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posted on
12/03/2021 3:34:00 PM PST
by
rdl6989
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
It’s Keith Richard’s guitar pick.
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posted on
12/03/2021 3:36:20 PM PST
by
Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Does anyone know what the flint stone is?
Fred, Wilma or Pebbles?
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posted on
12/03/2021 3:38:10 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Seruzawa
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posted on
12/03/2021 3:38:22 PM PST
by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
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posted on
12/03/2021 3:38:36 PM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: rdl6989
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posted on
12/03/2021 3:38:51 PM PST
by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
That looks like water wear to me. To asymmetrical for human wear.
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posted on
12/03/2021 3:41:27 PM PST
by
Valpal1
To: dfwgator
That didn’t take long. I saw that coming a mile away. lol
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posted on
12/03/2021 3:41:59 PM PST
by
ConservativeInPA
("Goats are like mushrooms. Because if you shoot a duck, I'm afraid of toasters." - Joe Biden)
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
fire starter used with a bow
To: Valpal1
“That looks like water wear to me. To asymmetrical for human wear.”
Unfortunately I agree. I want to root for it being an artifact but it is natural. If human made it would only have scoop wear like that in one place, that has scoop wear over the whole top were much of it would be impractical for real use of any kind.
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posted on
12/03/2021 3:47:38 PM PST
by
Openurmind
(The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
I’ve got dozens of pestle and mortars, it would have been discarded well before it got to that point. That is a fire starter.
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Holy stone? Looks like an Atlatyl——made to help chuck a spear. One of my uncles found one that looks a lot like that on his ranch on Ironside Mtn, eastern Oregon, some decades ago and donated it to a local museum. Nez Perce or Piute maybe. There are a few on display at the Buchanan Store on hwy 20 near Burns , OR——or it could just be a rock with a hole in it?
To: dfwgator
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posted on
12/03/2021 3:52:54 PM PST
by
bwest
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
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posted on
12/03/2021 3:52:58 PM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
It is obvious it is religious artifact owned by a high ranking shaman to appease the fertility god.
s/
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posted on
12/03/2021 3:53:32 PM PST
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
To: Craftmore
fire starter used with a bow
You mean for lighting the Yule log at Christmas? 😉
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posted on
12/03/2021 3:55:09 PM PST
by
nesnah
(Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
It appears to be a fire starter.
If you google: image of native American fire starter flint rock used with bow - many images come up that appear the same as your image.
To: Openurmind; MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
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posted on
12/03/2021 3:55:51 PM PST
by
Valpal1
To: Valpal1
Agree... These are fairly common in central Texas limestone country.
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posted on
12/03/2021 3:57:33 PM PST
by
daifu
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