I give up. You are just not open to what I am telling you here. Whether you can see it in the pictures or not, these rocks have no surfaces that do not show being worked. There are no sharp edges like you find in a natural break. I have thousands of the same shapes and animal shaped rocks. They are worked all over and some have been reworked. Maybe my photos are not clear enough for you to see or maybe you have not been exposed to this type of site artifacts. I have hunted artifacts for a long time and have lots of pretty arrowheads, grinding stones, etc. like all of you. This is different. It did not occur to me until I had been visiting this site for a couple of years that what I was finding had certain distinctive characteristics. Surely you can see the rusty like signs of biological matter on some of them. Most of these are very polished. I was a doubter too but when you find thousands of pieces that you have never found before and every one of them have certain common characteristics, you eventually cannot deny that these are not typical of the type found in the past in Texas. The world of archaeology is changing. If you compare the rocks I have found to those that are Danish or French, they are exactly the same type of rock, tools, and the same type of worked pieces as have been found there. I know the difference in regular rocks and rocks that have been worked. These are worked all over and many are used so much that they have a very polished surface. I don't know if I saved it or not, but I found an article by a past archaeologist that noted the same distinct characteristics that I have found. He referenced the fossils and that the tools included some form of animal shapes on every worked tool found. I never thought that what I was finding at first was much of anything although they differ from all the things I had found in the past. But after 10 years of visiting two sites with the exact same type items, I realized there was much more to the artifacts and that no other site I have been to had the same type pieces. I have been to 100s of sites, dug down 8' when I was younger, and have a lot of the type of tools and arrowheads you see from Texas and surrounding states. This is much much older. I am guessing closer to 20,000 years ago possibly more. What I have found in the past are much more recent artifacts. The people who made this were well established, the tools are well used and show much wear. many of the tools are multifunctional. In my opinion, they had not learned the fine tooling seen in later years, but had tools that were useful for the time period they lived in. The fact that so many have been carved around fossils and crystals did not occur to me for a long long time. It was only when I was packing up a bunch that I attempted to put them in boxes with others that were similar. My kitchen bar is 8' long and I lined up all of the same ones in a row. I could look down the row for 8' and see the same shape of animal from one end to the other. There were only slightly smaller versions. Most of the tools I find are made to sit flat on a surface. Unless they are chipped or have been broken, they all sit upright perfectly. I was not a believer at first. I am going to send some off to be authenticated and see what the experts say. The site I have been going to is not the first one of its kind in the US. There are a couple of others that have been found in recent years like the two I found that are from the same group of people. History is going to have to be corrected because these sites do not follow what has been published in the past. Forget the coming over thru Alaska, people were here much earlier than 16,000 years ago. Maps show the evolution of how bodies of land used to be connected and over time they separated. But the rocks and techniques used are exactly the same as those are labeled Danish. Down to the color variations and shapes. You could not discern tools found in Texas from those found and labeled Danish or French. Personally, I find this so much more rewarding because they are so much earlier and defy what is written.
Have you looked lately at eBay, I think he took your advice. But for some reason nobody is buying
I believe that has an effect on many who wish to take up searching for artifacts in the beginning. My wife wanted to try her hand at it once. After I informed her of what she found wasn't anything of real significance, she kind of lost interest in doing anymore artifact searching with me. She just said everything you find is wonderful and great, but everything she finds is nothing. She was feeling offended I guess when I was unimpressed with what she was finding, but that's a whole other matter altogether.
Yes, the secret is training your eyes to look for real artifacts and not just interesting rocks with natural patterns and shapes that catch your eye. I took my son with me one day when he was young, we were walking a creek that I found lots of points in, I saw a nice point in the center of the creek and left it there for my son.
Indeed you need to develop a visual filter if you have any hope of finding that petunia in the onion patch. I was really stoked on getting out and finding lots of treasure with my first metal detector I purchased in the 1980s. It wasn’t long before I figured out, I just might not have what it takes to be successful at that activity. Long ago I had it sitting on the passenger seat at a Walmart parking lot the last I saw that MD. I went into the store but failed to lock the doors. When I came out I noticed before I opened the driver's door it wasn't there anymore. That's what really nipped it in the bud for me and metal detecting. My father and son activity that never succeeded in blossoming was ice fishing.
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