These are some of the artifacts from the 15,500-year-old horizon. (Credit: Image courtesy of Michael R. Waters)
Posted on 03/25/2011 6:23:43 AM PDT by Red Badger
These are some of the artifacts from the 15,500-year-old horizon. (Credit: Image courtesy of Michael R. Waters)
GGG Ping!..............
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More info on the artifacts, L. If I kept everything that looked like these, I’d have to add a room onto my house.
If you kept records of exactly where and how deep the finds were, you could afford a whole new house...............
Interesting... it should be noted that ‘different culture’ doesn’t imply ‘different people.’ Archaeologists could be looking at a process of more or less continuous technological innovation in the same people group.
The big blade up top left has markings on it that can just be made out. It says “Ginsu” or something like that.
It says Yoshi Blade......
My grandparents were avid arrowhead hunters back in the day, but their wonderful collection was apparently sold by my uncle (who recently died). I’m sure my grandfather didn’t keep records tho, but he had a great knowledge of the cultures (at least what was known of them at the time—who knows if it was accurate). I sure wish they had been passed on to us as they were supposed to be. I do remember him telling me about an “elephant” carving he found. It disappeared from his collection after he died tho, and I don’t recall actually seeing it. I wish I had paid more attention.
Well, I find most on the surface near creeks and the lake. My sister recently talked to someone who used to live next to our farm. He told her the part I inherited had Indian mounds, but my dad had that area dozed years ago. I’ll do some serious hunting after I retire.
When I was a kid, I used to find them in the spring after plowing was done in the fields near the creeks in Northern Mississippi. They were all over the place............
See my reply just below yours. This fellow used to walk along the dry creeks on our place and just pull arrowheads out of the wall. I used to find many artifacts in the fields on our place. Just north of the field is an Indian burial ground. We used to have boxes of arrowheads, but they disappeared years ago. No one has a clue as what happened to those.
“Elephant” was probably a mammoth or mastodon.
That would have been worth a fortune!...................
I pick up stuff like that all the time out by Seguin along the Guadalupe.... Hmmmmmm.....
A place I work just built a 3 acre lake and there is a mess of that kind of stuff.... I have picked up some arrowheads on the dam and birm. Before about 4 months ago I had not seen any arrowheads in South Central Texas for a long time.
Sorry, but I strongly suspect this is “junk” science and will be debunked in 20 or 30 years.
Same here. I remember seeing one in the furrow while using a flat bottom mole board plow. I stopped the tractor and picked it up. Unfortunately, the plow had broken the 5” long knife. I got both pieces and glued them back together.
I had an elderly aunt back then that had a 3 inch long perfectly shaped spear head and a perfectly smooth and rounded grinding stone about the size of a bar of soap that they found while plowing........
Have you ever visited Lake Georgetown? There are signs at every park and launch ramp that say:
“It is illegal to pick up artifacts on this lake.”
DUH!! Nothing like advertising the facts.
Why?.............
My Grandparent’s all came from New Mexico. They had lots of pot shards and arrow heads and beads.
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