🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Need help confirming old Native American stone tools

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Jan 12, 2023
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So I was recently digging a hole for a deep hit and I came across will look like old Native American pottery. I kept digging a little further and I came across these odd shaped Stones rocks. The more I looked at these rocks I noticed that they were a little unique so I did a little bit of research and I found similar rocks or Stones online I just need some help confirming that I indeed found stone tools
 

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If they are tools, I can't think of too many ways they'd would be used. Though I have used what might be called common tool rocks that are similar to pound in maybe a tent stake or drive a flat screw driver into something to pray apart, by pounding on the end of the plastic handle, because I didn't have a hammer handy. I've placed rocks like that with a nice angled edge pointing up on the ground and smacked it with a tree branch to break off sizable length of campfire wood. That works real quick, over a saw or hatchet when you use a nice dry tree branch to knock down to size.
 

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My inclination is that they are just rocks, they don't seem to show signs of human alteration. I could be wrong. Hopefully someone else can chime in with some better information.
 

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Only one looks like might be a flake, under the disc shaped rock. But as a whole I don’t see any evidence, which makes me question if the one is even a flake
 

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I believe the bottom left image may be a sort of milling stone. It was used to ground up corn, etc as the actual rubbing or pushing down tool. The others appear to be too weak of density to be used for anything. I suspect if you took a hammer to a tiny area of one you would break it off with almost no effort.
 

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These MAY have been used by native Americans but they are natural.
I guess most things that were used was natural up to the trade era-then it was the introduction of man made.
 

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