A couple axes
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NICE! That first one has a nice polished grove...
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Some nice axes there.
Garscale
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Natural formation . Water worn rock. Oh wait... there are actual artifacts in this thread! Pleasant change from the normal. Thanks for showing
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islamoradamark
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Thanks for posting those awesome pieces
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Where are those rock specimen finders now? Just imagine how nice those pieces would look in my hands and how my hand fits them, left hand right, right hand left. They would fit perfectly on my artifact shelf too. I love them!
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Awe..that was kind of condescending. Not everyone has stacks of 5 gallons buckets of artifacts waiting to be cleaned and categorized, or have spent a lifetime collecting and studying ; )
Seriously though, I don’t know how many of those type posts are serious. I do know this internet thing is open to people of ALL ages. I can’t tell you how many times I picked up a rock as a kid envisioning it was a tomahawk!
Most kids have smart phones and can easily log in and ask questions. Other people just don’t outgrow those fantasies and don’t really know where to look to find those obvious looking ancient tools. A little patience and a tidbit of knowledge just might push someone over the top into something new.
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Those axes are amazing. I know they had trees in my area...should be an axe or two still surviving somewhere.
Never even found a piece of one. Nor has my dad, who has been keeping an eye out since the 1960’s.
Back east, in some areas they seem to have grown on trees as do flaked tools the size of your hand.
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I’ll admit...the brand new member with a their first post and only post being some ordinary looking alluvial stone.
It has you wondering if someone is just bored and trying to stir the pot. Hit and run posts I call em.
I’ll say it’s awesome when you folks with the experience share your knowledge and show off your finds. It helps tremendously in learning this stuff.
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Those axes look heavy. When do they become mauls? If that a function of the weight or shape of the bit?
It has you wondering if someone is just bored and trying to stir the pot. Hit and run posts I call em.
I’ll say it’s awesome when you folks with the experience share your knowledge and show off your finds. It helps tremendously in learning this stuff.
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Those axes look heavy. When do they become mauls? If that a function of the weight or shape of the bit?
Garscale
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Maybe you are right... that could have been a bear effigy after all.
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Thank you thank you very much, 50 revolutions is far from the record around here....
you just try all that breathing with no inhaling for that time span, not easy for any big foot...
antmike915
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Excellent examples, wish those exist in my areas. I think us southern folks are just left with Guilford Axes
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That sure seems like it would chop better. Most of those grooved axes I see look pretty blunt. You don’t see many with freshly ground edges.
An interesting thing I learned on a construction job....the stone masons would split quarried stones with a regular splitting maul like they were splitting wood. I say this because I wonder what exactly they were chopping with these axes? A flaked edge seems way more suited to felling trees or chopping logs than a ground stone axe.
An interesting thing I learned on a construction job....the stone masons would split quarried stones with a regular splitting maul like they were splitting wood. I say this because I wonder what exactly they were chopping with these axes? A flaked edge seems way more suited to felling trees or chopping logs than a ground stone axe.
H.P.
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WOAH, Double barreled beauties..When the ole boy that made em was asked what they were used for,he said, oh, they’re not for using, they’re for lookin at.
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