Star7
Tenderfoot
- Sep 3, 2016
- 7
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- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
I need help identifying what this artifact is. I found it in SE Tennessee so it was possibly made by a Cherokee.
This artifact is perfectly smooth, like it was polished. Even the edges have been rounded smooth.
This makes me think it was not intended to be a tool. Usually stone tools have chip marks, but this has none.
I don't believe someone would spend tremendous amounts of time, or energy, hand polishing a rock this smooth
if they were going to whack something with it.
I have a friend who also found one of these, approx. 7 miles from where I found mine.
His is exactly the same size and shape, polished very smooth, except his is solid black and mine is grayish white.
He thinks his was used in some kind of ceremonial or shaman dance.
I would really appreciate it if anyone could give insight as to what this is, what it was used for and how old it might be.
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This artifact is perfectly smooth, like it was polished. Even the edges have been rounded smooth.
This makes me think it was not intended to be a tool. Usually stone tools have chip marks, but this has none.
I don't believe someone would spend tremendous amounts of time, or energy, hand polishing a rock this smooth
if they were going to whack something with it.
I have a friend who also found one of these, approx. 7 miles from where I found mine.
His is exactly the same size and shape, polished very smooth, except his is solid black and mine is grayish white.
He thinks his was used in some kind of ceremonial or shaman dance.
I would really appreciate it if anyone could give insight as to what this is, what it was used for and how old it might be.
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