🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Paleo tools? Clovis? Help please and thank you

[kevin33]

OK, so I found these items in my yard on the hill and then the creek within a football field size area. I’ve done just a little bit of research and the words, Clovis Paleo, Indian stone, knives, stone, hammer spear tips so any confirmation of this point would be helpful.

 

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[DiggerKid2003]

None of these stones show any sign of being worked by man, all natural rocks imo

 

[unclemac]

yes, just rocks

 

[pepperj]

Keep looking.

 

[unclemac]

just a word to the wise here... the internet has exploded with images of "not artifacts". So when you do your research, many, many pix will pop up from folk posting imaginary tools. Ebay is rife with paleo rocks for sale, (look up portable rock art). If you are actually interested in learning, listen to the folk here and don't argue.... you will be wrong. One big thing to consider is that paleo folk were just as capable of manufacturing expert and precise tools as we are today. There are no "Fred Flintstone" type tools out there.

 

[Tpmetal]

Man the portable rock art scam on the internet really ruins the newbies ability to get into stone artifacts. Seems like it pops up here monthly if not weekly

 

[Robot]

Hi kevin33,
Welcome to the "Show"!

Yes, you will not get much verification of a natural stone being an authentic American Indian Stone Artifact...unless there are visiable hand carvings on them.
Your stones look very similar to what I would have used for a Hammer or Fish Weight.

Here are 2 pictures of rocks.
One is a verifiable American Indian Stone Net Weight, verified by the Smithonian Museum of Native Indian Artifacts...the other was stated by fellow Forum Members as "Just a Rock".

Not with standing the Smithonian registration number...Can you tell the difference?

 

[unclemac]

yes, easily

 

[kevin33]

Hi kevin33,
Welcome to the "Show"!

Yes, you will not get much verification of a natural stone being an authentic American Indian Stone Artifact...unless there are visiable hand carvings on them.
Your stones look very similar to what I would have used for a Hammer or Fish Weight.

Here are 2 pictures of rocks.
One is a verifiable American Indian Stone Net Weight, verified by the Smithonian Museum of Native Indian Artifacts...the other was stated by fellow Forum Members as "Just a Rock".

Not with standing the Smithonian registration number...Can you tell the difference?

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Seems like this many in and near the creek in my front yard and in back on the hill near the stone piles would be just rocks … the Virginia Museum of natural history found a woolly mammoth skeleton only about 20 miles from here Saltville, Virginia

 

[unclemac]

yes you are correct, just rocks. I am not sure how the mammoth relates to this...

 

[CreekSide]

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Seems like this many in and near the creek in my front yard and in back on the hill near the stone piles would be just rocks … the Virginia Museum of natural history found a woolly mammoth skeleton only about 20 miles from here Saltville, Virginia

All rocks nothing is worked by human hands. If you want to see some artifacts you can look at my past posts

 

[scruggs]

Sorry all natural rock, keeping searching!