Artifact or Artifalse??

[jeramme]

Hey guys, would love your opinion on this piece...It appears to be made of course....don't see much for signs of alteration...but caught my eye....seems like the two sides are polished...and that beveled shape.....but no idea what the purpose might have been....probably natural, but wanted to check...thanks for your help!

 

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[antmike915]

My vote is for artifalse, looks like it's been tumbled in the creek some. Have you found any obvious artifacts in the area you found this?

 

[pepperj]

I'll add that the round one is also...

Normal Life Savers are about 99% sugar with some flavouring and binders.

 

[jeramme]

My vote is for artifalse, looks like it's been tumbled in the creek some. Have you found any obvious artifacts in the area you found this?

Thanks! It is near a known habitation site and I have found a few hard stone artifacts there....close to where two rivers converge.

 

[DizzyDigger]

Might be a good area to hunt artifacts in, but that one appears to be just a very cool looking rock. Keep at it...

 

[CreekSide]

Unfortunately if it was a scraper it’s so water worn it’s past artifact stage. I’ve found a Pickwick that is so water worn it’s just a shape now.

 

[jeramme]

I'll add that the round one is also...

Normal Life Savers are about 99% sugar with some flavouring and binders.

LOL!

 

[jeramme]

Might be a good area to hunt artifacts in, but that one appears to be just a very cool looking rock. Keep at it...

Thank you!

 

[jeramme]

Unfortunately if it was a scraper it’s so water worn it’s past artifact stage. I’ve found a Pickwick that is so water worn it’s just a shape now.

Thank you Creek!

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

IMO it looks more creek tumbled than worked, nothing in pictures says artifact to me.

I found hundreds of points in creeks, every single one still had the signs of being worked. If it was found on a beach then the wave action and sand could remove some signs, but a lot harder for creeks and streams to do the same.

 

[unclemac]

even beach ones still are pretty obvious after hundreds of years of wave action, no not an artifact.

 

[Older The Better]

To farther derail the thread, aren’t those the lifesavers you can bite and they release a small amount of light?

Also I’d say natural on the other but I will say I’ve found several oddly smooth stones, on the uplands near sites, I still think mine are natural too but they do seem out of place. Considering 90% of the rock near the surface is limestone sandstone or shale. There is a buried river gravel at the top of the landscape though, I’m guessing these have traveled just a bit

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Could have been moved and deposited by glacier during last ice age glaciers did make it to Kansas

 

[Older The Better]

True for the northern ks but to my knowledge not down here near Oklahoma… not to be difficult haha but not my thread so apologies to the op…

To the op is quartz common in the area? I know you’d never prove it was ever the case but you can’t tell me that the occasional Native American didn’t pick up a cool rock and carry it around some.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

True for the northern ks but to my knowledge not down here near Oklahoma… not to be difficult haha but not my thread so apologies to the op…

To the op is quartz common in the area? I know you’d never prove it was ever the case but you can’t tell me that the occasional Native American didn’t pick up a cool rock and carry it around some.

I don't think you are being difficult at all by any of means, Was just a thought. Could have gotten there by several means including kids in 1800s, even in the stomachs of some canivore animals.

Unfortunately there is no way to know what rock someone may have carried..

 

[unclemac]

True for the northern ks but to my knowledge not down here near Oklahoma… not to be difficult haha but not my thread so apologies to the op…

To the op is quartz common in the area? I know you’d never prove it was ever the case but you can’t tell me that the occasional Native American didn’t pick up a cool rock and carry it around some.

...no pockets...

 

[antmike915]

...no pockets...

The women made the men carry everything 🙂

 

[RGINN]

Probably just a rock, but it would have caught my eye too.

 

[CreekSide]

Thank you Creek!

Here’s the best example I have to share the Pickwick circled

 

[Rockdog]

Unfortunately if it was a scraper it’s so water worn it’s past artifact stage. I’ve found a Pickwick that is so water worn it’s just a shape now.

Yep. I find alot of those in the creek beds. I usually end up leaving them behind.