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Post by stephan on Mar 29, 2015 1:12:35 GMT -5
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Post by jakesrocks on Mar 29, 2015 9:04:17 GMT -5
As small as it is, I'd think more Indian paint pot. They used small grinders like that to grind herds and minerals to make war paint. If that's what it is, it's an even better find than a mortar & pestal.
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Mar 29, 2015 9:18:47 GMT -5
Nice piece to have!!!! I have a smaller one I found in Montana,years ago......No grinder,just the bowl made from rock..
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Post by stephan on Mar 29, 2015 9:49:48 GMT -5
A paint pot is definitely possible, but not war-paint. This was found in Pleasanton, CA., so it would have been the Chocheño-speaking Ohlone peoples. They were not war-like at all. But ceremonial paint, or dye for baskets and pottery, maybe?
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Post by garock on Mar 29, 2015 10:10:29 GMT -5
Love your photography !
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Post by gingerkid on Mar 29, 2015 11:14:02 GMT -5
Score for your mom and dad, stephan!
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Post by stephan on Mar 30, 2015 9:45:49 GMT -5
Thanks, guys.
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Post by Sabre52 on Apr 1, 2015 17:01:19 GMT -5
Yup, maybe a paint mortar. Our home in Ojai used to be just four houses off the Ventura River bed and we used to find arrowheads in our garden. Was at the neighbors place one day and a kid brought by a really cool paint mortar he found in the riverbed. Actually had a row of little shell beads inlayed in asphaltum along the edge.
Yep Ohlones were not very warlike. An excavation at Coyote Hills found lots of Ohlone skeletons were headless. Some other tribe must not have liked them very much. Miwoks of the north Bay area were pretty warlike sometimes I think. Their points are wicked looking barbed affairs. Read somewhere they dipped then in poop so when the barbs broke off the wounds festered....Mel
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Post by jamesp on Apr 2, 2015 6:04:53 GMT -5
Awesome find. We do not find those over in the east, not that I am aware of anyway. Mound culture was at a pinnacle about 1000 years ago. We must have had some buck crazy ancients during the mound era though. Cahokia and Etowah mounds had some unusual burials of like age children and young men and women. It is apparent that sacrifice was most likely part of their life.
ex. Mound 72 Cahokia Wikipedia. Ugly stuff.
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Post by gingerkid on Apr 3, 2015 8:44:10 GMT -5
stephan, did your parents keep the paint mortar?? "Miwoks of the north Bay area were pretty warlike sometimes I think. Their points are wicked looking barbed affairs. Read somewhere they dipped then in poop so when the barbs broke off the wounds festered....Mel" Read more: forum.rocktumblinghobby.com/post/new/70147#ixzz3WFlm9JCLWow and ouch! There are some Indian mounds in Blakely, Georgia. Weird thing that pearls were found along with pottery that was probably used for ceremonial purposes. Wonder how/where they had pearls?? Maybe river pearls? These mounds are astronomically aligned and "The largest of Kolomoki’s nine mounds is Mound A, making it the Indian mound with the largest land base in the state of Georgia." lostworlds.org/kolomoki_mounds/Rick worked at Kolomoki as a young sprout when they opened up a putt putt golf thinking he would meet girls. Much to his surprise, only older folks played golf, lol.
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Post by mohs on Apr 3, 2015 9:56:13 GMT -5
Rick worked at Kolomoki as a young sprout when they opened up a putt putt golf thinking he would meet girls. Much to his surprise, only older folks played golf, lol. that funny! playing putt putt on a ancient mound would be the first place I'd look for the hot babes no wonder i'm alone but I got my 3 foot putt down Rick obviously wizened up
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Post by gingerkid on Apr 3, 2015 10:00:10 GMT -5
ROFL, "3 foot putt down," mohs, you are a hoot! The putt putt golf was a short distance from the mounds. They probably would've arrested Rick for having putt putt golf on the mounds (and looking for gals).
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