15,000 years in a creek bed and still pristine? I want to believe but I'm with you; it's too good to be true.
“it’s too good to be true.”
Not really. As he mentioned, the creek changes its course, dso it’s not like there was running water on it all the time.
Hey, flint, buried in mud...
Why not?
http://www.flintknapping.com/Sales_Stone.htm
Wonder how you would flake/chip an arrow head from this raw material??
Could you age the finished product to appear pre-historic?
Hmmmmm/
15,000 years and still pristine?
The usual course of finding artifacts in streams and along hills or on top of the ground is that they erode out over time after having been buried for most of time. This spear point if it is not a hoax, could easily have washed out of a creek bank during the last heavy rain storm.
Incidentally, I went to a small local museum in western North Carolina. They had an exhibit of many points dating 7 to 8,000 years old. They were all much smaller. This one would obviously be suitable for very large game, which would have been killed by the giant boloid event hypothesized by Firestone, et al. about 13,000 years ago. Sunken Civ, please post this if you have not already done so.