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Post by spiritstone on Sept 11, 2014 11:26:10 GMT -5
I had been hanging onto this for years and always thought it was some sort of bone. Showed it for the first time to Fossillman "thanks" and he told me really what I was holding onto and was surprised to learn this, it is a First Nations Battle Mallet. It's Heavy... I could see how this would smash a skull open. I thought it would be cool to share a pic of this if you ever come across one on the prairies.
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Post by orrum on Sept 11, 2014 12:00:15 GMT -5
That's way cool!
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Post by jamesp on Sept 11, 2014 13:05:09 GMT -5
Yep, that is a no brainer for artifact collectors. Found over a thousand arrowheads but never an ax head. Fine piece. Not common. looks like a man finisher.
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Post by blackout5783 on Sept 11, 2014 13:15:07 GMT -5
Yep, that is a no brainer for artifact collectors. I see what you did there... ;D
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Post by spiritstone on Sept 11, 2014 13:21:01 GMT -5
LOL yep no brainer! Not sure what the skull and wife thing means from your outher thread, maybe i shouldnt ask, but i guess you wouldnt want it to fall into her hands. lmao
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Post by jamesp on Sept 11, 2014 13:54:15 GMT -5
LOL yep no brainer! Not sure what the skull and wife thing means from your outher thread, maybe i shouldnt ask, but i guess you wouldnt want it to fall into her hands. lmao Correct. Ax head + skull + sleeping husband = Bad day . Now how much life insurance do you have on me dear ??
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Post by jamesp on Sept 11, 2014 14:00:21 GMT -5
Yep, that is a no brainer for artifact collectors. I see what you did there... ;D Found a strange one.Thought it was just a broken bolen point. Got home and looked a bit closer. Noticed it was intentionally made the way it is. Looked it up in the books and wowed out, it was a trans-paleo Edgefield knife. Quite a find, river polished, check it out
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Post by spiritstone on Sept 11, 2014 14:09:57 GMT -5
I see what you did there... ;D Found a strange one.Thought it was just a broken bolen point. Got home and looked a bit closer. Noticed it was intentionally made the way it is. Looked it up in the books and wowed out, it was a trans-paleo Edgefield knife. Quite a find, river polished, check it out Fingers slots and a perfect fit for the palm. Only seen them in a museum. Thanks for showin this.
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Post by jamesp on Sept 11, 2014 14:51:28 GMT -5
Found at a limestone river crossing, along w/a few others. Artifacts amazing. Years ago, paleo rich Suwannee River Florida. Apparently during the ice age. When the water was tied up in the polar caps and Florida had three times more land area. Suwannee river a mere trickle. Back when the mammoth roamed.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Sept 11, 2014 15:00:12 GMT -5
I had been hanging onto this for years and always thought it was some sort of bone. Showed it for the first time to Fossillman "thanks" and he told me really what I was holding onto and was surprised to learn this, it is a First Nations Battle Mallet. It's Heavy... I could see how this would smash a skull open. I thought it would be cool to share a pic of this if you ever come across one on the prairies. Wow, great find! Must've been a b!tch to grind the groove in that battle mallet. Man finisher for sure! Or woman finisher, believing men haven't changed in all these years. How old do you suppose that is?
Found a strange one.Thought it was just a broken bolen point. Got home and looked a bit closer. Noticed it was intentionally made the way it is. Looked it up in the books and wowed out, it was a trans-paleo Edgefield knife. Quite a find, river polished, check it out Nice find, James. That is a cool one.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2014 15:04:54 GMT -5
Sure is a good thing ya'll found those things on private property. Wouldn't want you to go to prison because of some stupid laws. Jim
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Post by jamesp on Sept 11, 2014 16:04:27 GMT -5
Sure is a good thing ya'll found those things on private property. Wouldn't want you to go to prison because of some stupid laws. Jim I found that before the laws were passed Jim. Not on private property. If they want it I will be glad to hand it over. It will get more useful attention here and other places I have shared it than in some category box in their storage. And it was a loose river find.... Mound(grave) diggers ruined collecting down here. I do not half blame the authorities for getting angry on that note. We should still be able to surface collect as long as we do not have any digging apparatus. Got eyes, can see, no digging equipment ocifer...
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Post by spiritstone on Sept 11, 2014 16:04:54 GMT -5
Sure is a good thing ya'll found those things on private property. Wouldn't want you to go to prison because of some stupid laws. Jim All good Jim.
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Post by Fossilman on Sept 11, 2014 16:08:20 GMT -5
I'll post mine in a day or so.....Found it in Montana,while fossil hunting... Here it is..Heavy sucker too,all granite!!!
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Post by spiritstone on Sept 11, 2014 16:18:53 GMT -5
I'll post mine in a day or so.....Found it in Montana,while fossil hunting... Here it is..Heavy sucker too,all granite!!! I see now why you nailed it so fast. A twin. Rockpicker4ever From what i was reading off one web site, they seem to be from 6 - 8 hundred yrs old? I'm not positive if this is correct.
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Post by Fossilman on Sept 11, 2014 16:24:23 GMT -5
I never researched this at all,but I do know they are old....
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2014 16:26:24 GMT -5
My son and his friends have some awesome pieces from first man here including f points, arrow heads that were made by the same man and (they say) a left handed man. Some rocks like the one posted were used for hobbles also after the horses arrived. Jim
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Post by kenefick on Sept 11, 2014 16:48:10 GMT -5
That solves a 60 year old question. When I was about 14 I had a job as a farm laborer. During the summer, after the corn was too high to cultivate with machinery, and there wasn't a whole lot of other things to do, I would be sent to the cornfield with a hoe to chop weeds. In one particular field, at the top of a hill, I frequently found arrowheads. One day I uncovered this big rock, that looked exactly like that. It took some effort to get it back to the farmhouse (hard to hoe and carry a rock at the same time). The farmer I was working for wasn't impressed with my find, said it was just a rock that had been cut with a disc or plow. I didn't argue with my elders back then, but I just knew he was wrong.
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Post by snowmom on Sept 11, 2014 18:19:32 GMT -5
this gives me the chills...........
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Post by Sabre52 on Sept 11, 2014 20:22:40 GMT -5
Very cool tool! I think a bunch of similar stone mauls were found at some old turquoise mine pits on the Mojave Desert too. Guess hammers like that were just as good for smacking rocks or antler chisels as they were for smacking heads in war. Apparently the type was popular and wide spread as I've also seen like examples from along the trade routes between Nevada, Arizona and California. In all my wanderings and digs I've never ever found one though. Darn!. Did used to find grooved stones at Clear Lake, CA though. Big ones were anchors I guess and the small were net weights...Mel
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