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Their story in stone
There it goes , another site gone to house development. That place used to house so many ancient artifacts and memories. Man did I have to work hard for them, endless hours of excavating at my parents land for what might seem to some as a rock, to me it was my LIFE my HAPPIENESS and my ESCAPE from very sad times in my life. Would have been a lot easier if I would have lucked out and was raised in a area of farming, but I had 15 years to SAVE as many of the most beautiful artifacts, that if not for my LOVE would never of seen the light of day to be cherished at the local public shows .
It is a huge part of my life being a amateur archaeologist to show the public that right under their very own feet we have these amazing stone tools crafted by many thousands of ancient people, and believe it or not well over half the population never knew existed. The feeling is just so amazing you get uncovering one of these priceless pieces of ancient history. Everyone of them tell a story and makes you wonder in pure amazement of the life it had and why it lays here underneath this earth. As I sit gazing in awe at the beautiful work of art I have just uncovered , my mind begins to try and unravel and try to see a glimpse of the life these men and women lived and how they survived. Im completely memorized by every artifact I save. What did it see? What did it hunt? How was it shafted?
A past time of mine when im not saving these gorgeous works of art and tools used and crafted by men many thousands of years ago is sitting in at some of the local amateur archaeological meeting. This is Where us amateurs welcome the public with never any charge to share our knowledge about the sites we save, the feelings and theories on hows and whys , but best of all to let the unknowledged hold , see and feel the life in these objects and explain there reasons.
Every year a site gets built on that tells a story on ancient life or the professional archaeologists scare people of calling us thief’s , drug addicts or money hungry animals ( we are not the ones getting the paychecks for this). I have never EVER thought about how much is this worth or how much is that worth, I just think about how much I cant wait to display these awesome artifacts to the untrained eye and let them see and feel what this continent used to consist of,not much at all like todays governing societies . These people respected other spaces, traded items and let others share their flint outcroppings. Its sad when I cant even go to my old site and see what the professional’s had dug up , everyone of us amateurs know its put away in the basements at these museum’s for future study for only them to see, for what? I have nothing against them for trying to save time lines , but we are humans too that would like to enjoy our only life on this planet, as well as informing people to get along and share this wonderful place, because before we know it everyone of our sites will be houses and stores and as a amateur archaeologists I feel its our jobs to save and beautifully display and show the public free or charge and HANDS ON the awesome artifacts that we can save before it happens cause I sure would want my time capsule of how we worked shown and cherished when im dead and gone to live on and not rot in the ground or some museum basement never to be seen!
I think the smile and enjoyment it puts on all of our hearts is worth more than any paycheck cause I sure have lost a few in gas for the car and electric in my house displaying these beautiful artifacts. Just wish we could all get along on this only place we can call home. To all of those YouTubers and amateur archs out there , thanks for your hard work and the displaying of your finds to the public
Most artifact collectors do not have access to farmland in their regions of the country so most have to excavate for them or walk miles through creek beds. Its ALWAYS done on private property with permission and seldomly do these properties stay empty for long. Everywhere I have excavated as a young man has since been covered up and built on by todays forever growing and fast building society. Thankfully we have the armatures such as Brooksy that have the drive to find these almost forever lost story telling relics, if not we would never have seen these pieces of art and survival tools come back to life for the respect to the makers that worked so so hard on them and traveled so far for their material. We should NEVER let these monumentus pieces of ancient history sit forever in the ground but to recollect them and display the creators back to life, such as we would want with our modern day tools. The ancient ones deserve to have their story of life be told not hidden, so please refrain from thinking we are thieves , we are mere heros to these helpless artifacts.
P.s. just think they are up there looking down saying ( Hey check it out Johnny, Brooksy just unearthed that killer Mozarkite calf creek you made a few thousand years ago and now posting it to youtube where the public will see your fine craftsmanship and see that you were once a living soul that walked this earth many years ago.
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There it goes , another site gone to house development. That place used to house so many ancient artifacts and memories. Man did I have to work hard for them, endless hours of excavating at my parents land for what might seem to some as a rock, to me it was my LIFE my HAPPIENESS and my ESCAPE from very sad times in my life. Would have been a lot easier if I would have lucked out and was raised in a area of farming, but I had 15 years to SAVE as many of the most beautiful artifacts, that if not for my LOVE would never of seen the light of day to be cherished at the local public shows .
It is a huge part of my life being a amateur archaeologist to show the public that right under their very own feet we have these amazing stone tools crafted by many thousands of ancient people, and believe it or not well over half the population never knew existed. The feeling is just so amazing you get uncovering one of these priceless pieces of ancient history. Everyone of them tell a story and makes you wonder in pure amazement of the life it had and why it lays here underneath this earth. As I sit gazing in awe at the beautiful work of art I have just uncovered , my mind begins to try and unravel and try to see a glimpse of the life these men and women lived and how they survived. Im completely memorized by every artifact I save. What did it see? What did it hunt? How was it shafted?
A past time of mine when im not saving these gorgeous works of art and tools used and crafted by men many thousands of years ago is sitting in at some of the local amateur archaeological meeting. This is Where us amateurs welcome the public with never any charge to share our knowledge about the sites we save, the feelings and theories on hows and whys , but best of all to let the unknowledged hold , see and feel the life in these objects and explain there reasons.
Every year a site gets built on that tells a story on ancient life or the professional archaeologists scare people of calling us thief’s , drug addicts or money hungry animals ( we are not the ones getting the paychecks for this). I have never EVER thought about how much is this worth or how much is that worth, I just think about how much I cant wait to display these awesome artifacts to the untrained eye and let them see and feel what this continent used to consist of,not much at all like todays governing societies . These people respected other spaces, traded items and let others share their flint outcroppings. Its sad when I cant even go to my old site and see what the professional’s had dug up , everyone of us amateurs know its put away in the basements at these museum’s for future study for only them to see, for what? I have nothing against them for trying to save time lines , but we are humans too that would like to enjoy our only life on this planet, as well as informing people to get along and share this wonderful place, because before we know it everyone of our sites will be houses and stores and as a amateur archaeologists I feel its our jobs to save and beautifully display and show the public free or charge and HANDS ON the awesome artifacts that we can save before it happens cause I sure would want my time capsule of how we worked shown and cherished when im dead and gone to live on and not rot in the ground or some museum basement never to be seen!
I think the smile and enjoyment it puts on all of our hearts is worth more than any paycheck cause I sure have lost a few in gas for the car and electric in my house displaying these beautiful artifacts. Just wish we could all get along on this only place we can call home. To all of those YouTubers and amateur archs out there , thanks for your hard work and the displaying of your finds to the public
Most artifact collectors do not have access to farmland in their regions of the country so most have to excavate for them or walk miles through creek beds. Its ALWAYS done on private property with permission and seldomly do these properties stay empty for long. Everywhere I have excavated as a young man has since been covered up and built on by todays forever growing and fast building society. Thankfully we have the armatures such as Brooksy that have the drive to find these almost forever lost story telling relics, if not we would never have seen these pieces of art and survival tools come back to life for the respect to the makers that worked so so hard on them and traveled so far for their material. We should NEVER let these monumentus pieces of ancient history sit forever in the ground but to recollect them and display the creators back to life, such as we would want with our modern day tools. The ancient ones deserve to have their story of life be told not hidden, so please refrain from thinking we are thieves , we are mere heros to these helpless artifacts.
P.s. just think they are up there looking down saying ( Hey check it out Johnny, Brooksy just unearthed that killer Mozarkite calf creek you made a few thousand years ago and now posting it to youtube where the public will see your fine craftsmanship and see that you were once a living soul that walked this earth many years ago.
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