This Is Why People Are Posting Rocks Thinking Native American

[diggummup]

Sites like these on the internet. https://ancientstoneart.blogspot.com/p/did-you-know-that-native-americans.html

Look it's a head! Ridiculous.

Now for my rock, lol!

At least this rock is interesting. I still haven't figured out whether it's natural or carved. It was posted in the Rocks and Minerals board but the consensus was natural or not sure from the few who did reply. I don't know. It was in a collection of Mixtec artifacts that I purchased.

 

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[RW]

Would be extremely difficult to carve. Why go through all of the difficulty to just carve a cool design? Anything is possible but looks natural to me.

 

[Mine Shaft]

OMG, i just red a few comments. This will fuel the fire for sure. PPl need to read about native American cultures and get informed. If they want to find the truth about these so called images in rocks & stones they need to contact a geologist or go to there local collage but its very doubtful they will. The person that designed that website is a nutjob.

 

[arrow86]

Yeah complete BS .... unreal people would even think natives would make such crappy , sloppy effigys just look at any arrowhead and the skill required that should be proof enough that there rocks are all natural

 

[Mine Shaft]

Some of the stones should be in the Smithsonian and a lot of these ppl should see a shrink its a affliction that should not go untreated.

 

[Kray Gelder]

That website was pretty darn professional looking, but it doesn't make those rocks artifacts. Totally ridiculous! "FAKE" archeology. As for your rock, I remember you've shared this before. I'm pretty sure this was an almost spherical, finely layered concretion, curiously eroded. In fact, I believe you could come pretty close to replicating it with an onion. Slice it in half across the rings, then remove slices at an angle to the center ring until you get that curved ring appearance. I just tried it, and it works. For whatever reason, that's how it wore down
naturally. IMHO. It IS cool, and I would keep it.

 

[georgia flatlander]

My rule of thumb is that Indians were not into abstract art. They created things that were as similar as possible to the real thing. If you have to turn your head a certain way, or portray something in certain lighting in order to 'see' it, chances are that it ain't what you think it is.

 

[diggummup]

Well people I believe this is more widespread than we first thought. It's called "portable rock art".

Here is a site dedicated to portable rock art.

Archaeology of Portable Rock Art

another... https://www.rockartmuseum.com/

and more...

Portable Rock Art / Figure Stones - America's (almost) Invisible Prehistory


What I really wish is that I could find something/anything remotely similar to my eroded rock. I've searched concretions and nodules and naturally eroded rock forms looking for something close. Searched through Simon & Schusters Guide to Rocks and Minerals trying to ID the rock itself with no luck. Until then maybe I'll put it on ebay for $1k or something. lol, Joking .

 

[gunsil]

I just went on that site and told them it was B.S. but there was a message saying my comment needed to be"approved". I suggest everybody here calls them to the carpet too.

 

[ecmjamsit]

In Colorado they call it "stoned art". Suggest they make it into a necklace for their wife.

 

[diggummup]

In Colorado they call it "stoned art". Suggest they make it into a necklace for their wife.

I agree, somebody's been smoking something they can't handle.

 

[Blak bart]

Sites like these on the internet. https://ancientstoneart.blogspot.com/p/did-you-know-that-native-americans.html

Look it's a head! Ridiculous.

Now for my rock, lol!

At least this rock is interesting. I still haven't figured out whether it's natural or carved. It was posted in the Rocks and Minerals board but the consensus was natural or not sure from the few who did reply. I don't know. It was in a collection of Mixtec artifacts that I purchased.

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Natural or carved, your rock is bad arse. If its natural its one in a million, if its carved its one in a million !! Nice find diggumup !! I wouldn't pass it up out on the trail.

 

[ToddsPoint]

I found a couple of those web sites too. Fake news! There are a lot of delusional people in this world evidently. Gary

 

[jamus peek]

Well people I believe this is more widespread than we first thought. It's called "portable rock art".

Here is a site dedicated to portable rock art.

Archaeology of Portable Rock Art

another... https://www.rockartmuseum.com/

and more...

Portable Rock Art / Figure Stones - America's (almost) Invisible Prehistory


What I really wish is that I could find something/anything remotely similar to my eroded rock. I've searched concretions and nodules and naturally eroded rock forms looking for something close. Searched through Simon & Schusters Guide to Rocks and Minerals trying to ID the rock itself with no luck. Until then maybe I'll put it on ebay for $1k or something. lol, Joking .

I love it when they pile three rocks on top of each other and then call it a Mammoth.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Is that Backwoods Bob's site?

 

[unclemac]

someone put a lot of time and thought into that site! but what the heck...look at how many world religions there are and all the stories that go with them...so here is a question...are there any European sites documenting nonsense over there?

 

[DDancer]

I still hold the same thoughts as Kray does concerning your stone as well diggum. At least you dont have "diamonds" showing up here. Picture rocks I understand but I agree there is a world of difference in whats manufactured by hand and what you can just pick up in a stream bed.

 

[Charl]

For many years, all the artifact forums have had to deal with folks bearing rocks, and rocks described as effigies. I know I myself have put much time and effort into understanding what at times just seems to be a delusional belief system. Writing to the folks who are behind the portable rock art sites described in this thread would do little good, IMHO.

And look at this development, from the mainstream world of art history, not from the delusional world of rocks claimed as effigies, but from the mainstream art world:

First Sculpture: Handaxe to Figure Stone at the Nasher

https://www.dallasnews.com/arts/vis...culpture-includes-object-23-million-years-old

 

[GopherDaGold]

I just went on that site and told them it was B.S. but there was a message saying my comment needed to be"approved". I suggest everybody here calls them to the carpet too.

Same here. Our comments will never see the light of day.

 

[Charl]

someone put a lot of time and thought into that site! but what the heck...look at how many world religions there are and all the stories that go with them...so here is a question...are there any European sites documenting nonsense over there?

See the links I left above. Although the exhibit ran in Dallas, the suggested effigies were from Old World sites far older then any known in the New World....