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Does anyone know what the flint stone is?
Fred, Wilma or Pebbles?
That looks like water wear to me. To asymmetrical for human wear.
fire starter used with a bow
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.
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?
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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.
An interesting rock.
I’ve seen quite a few real artifacts and stream worn rocks in my life in ID and AK, and to me this strongly resembles the latter.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but it looks a bit too large to hold in one hand, which would rule out the great majority of human uses.
The hole is waaaay too narrow to be a pestle, not to mention a pestle shouldn’t have a through-and-through hole in the first place..
I’ve seen plenty of rocks with much larger and/or more symmetrical holes in streams that were clearly naturally occurring; that rock is easily within the realm of what water can do. The lack of symmetry strongly argues against a rotational use such as firestarting, as does the angle against the surface of the hole (should be near perfectly square).
I hate to say it, but given the awkward size/shape for handling and lack of rough symmetry, my money would be on a natural (non-human) origin for that rock. I’ve seen quite a few natural origin rocks that looked more “made” than that.
Put differently: I can assert with 100% confidence that that shape is completely within the realm of natural origin, while simultaneously seeing no compelling evidence of human workmanship…
Paleolithic Ring Doorbell
It’s an early fertility idol. See the hole?
The Indians had a very advanced culture.
This is an Indian version of a laptop computer.
That, or fossilized bear crap.
It looks like a mounting stone. When North American tribes raided each other and kidnapped their women they used stones like the one you have to relieve their amorous condition.
Looks a lot like a net weight they would use them to hold down nets they would stretch out for a long length and run animals into the net, the weight would hold the net enough to keep an animal from running thru or under it. They also used them in water but most weights for fishing are well made if not sort of fancy looking.
It was used as a balance stone on an atlatl.
Bowl for a fire starter. It’s the wrong color to be flint, and also is not hard enough.