Bone.... How?

[NC field hunter]

Found this piece of bone that had pretty much turned to stone. It looks filed down to a tool also. What is strange is no bone tools are found outside of water here. (so says my distant cousin a retired archeologist, that did the largest percent of his work in TN). Tell me If y'all agree that it is bone. If it is, that means the acidity of our soil has just recently (in terms of history) reached this high level.

 

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[Tnmountains]

Could it be a fossil that was used?

 

[NC field hunter]

Could it be a fossil that was used?

Doesn't fossil have to be chipped out of stone? I know nothing about them. I was just reading about bone in my area, and found out that little has been found due to humidity they say. What I'm getting at is "very little" leaves room to find a bone in rare occasion. It looks like if it were a used tool, the marrow would be gone.??

 

[GatorBoy]

Is it hard like stone? If so it may be fossil. Its hard to tell in the photo but do you see porous structure on the rough part? Like little bubble looking pits. It looks like a fossil inner ear bone of a small whale like a pilot whale or dolphin.

 

[GatorBoy]

These are two from north carolina

the color is just from the sediment it came to rest in. It can be different.

 

[NC field hunter]

Is it hard like stone? If so it may be fossil. Its hard to tell in the photo but do you see porous structure on the rough part? Like little bubble looking pits. It looks like a fossil inner ear bone of a small whale like a pilot whale or dolphin.

It is hard. Remember where I am bro. One would have to dig deep to find whale bones. It has fossilized. I don't know if natives would have used it, it has the marrow in it. Hard of corse

 

[NC field hunter]

These are two from north carolina

<img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=679480"/> the color is just from the sediment it came to rest in. It can be different.

Looks like a comparison a good one. I'm 2 1/2 or 3 hours from the coast. Weird huh?

 

[GatorBoy]

Large portions of our country including your area has spent long periods underwater from one polar cycle to another. ..Ice age...low water because its frozen from the poles down.... non ice age...high water because its all melted. Not weird.

 

[NC field hunter]

Large portions of our country including your area has spent long periods underwater from one polar cycle to another. ..Ice age...low water because its frozen from the poles down.... non ice age...high water because its all melted. Not weird.

True! Sorry about that. Now that you mention that, about 5 miles away from where this piece was found, large amounts of glacier sediment are all over the place. Rocky hard hunting grounds.

 

[bblaha]

That's pretty cool, I have yet to find any bone and probably won't because of where I live. Nice job man HH

 

[NC field hunter]

That's pretty cool, I have yet to find any bone and probably won't because of where I live. Nice job man HH

I should not have, according to text book! It has fossilized and as Gator said, probably came in with glaciers .

 

[bblaha]

That makes it even cooler, it probably took a pretty long journey to get where it was when you found it

 

[GatorBoy]

There is fossil shark teeth including large megalodon teeth found alot in north Carolina.

 

[GatorBoy]

These were all found in Lee creek in Aurora N.C. Beaufort county.

 

[tomclark]

I believe that looks like a Giant Tortoise spur!

 

[GatorBoy]

I think Tom is right. I was just posting as I was thinking.

 

[Harry Pristis]

I cannot say for sure, but the object looks bilaterally symmetrical. There are no tool marks, no trace of cancellous bone or even of vascular pores? If that is the case, you may have a steinkern from a bivalve. A steinkern is a cast of the interior of a (typically) marine fossil.

 

[GatorBoy]

Here is an example of what Harry Described. There is a portion of shell still on this one.

 

[tomclark]

OOooooooh...Macrocallista??

 

[NC field hunter]

There is fossil shark teeth including large megalodon teeth found alot in north Carolina.

I have a friend that collects those huge teeth. But, he finds them on the coast. I have found shark teeth, but never in my back yard. Bone won't last in our soul. Teeth,well. I have found fossilized k-9 looking teeth in my area. The glacier sounds right to me. That means that they were fossil upon arrival here. I hope that made some sense.