Thank you very informative. People that I know that search for artifacts are also searching for information, my hope is that Archeologists will take the time to share their knowledge. thanks again
I find that many folks only look for the sharp, shiny and triangular stone like spear points and arrowheads. I, however, am completely enthralled by the everyday stone tool. There is just something about those deeply personal possessions that I find so very interesting. Thank you for sharing this video. Because there is some serious misinformation being spread on TH-cam regarding the difference between geofacts and artifacts.
Yes! I have a friend who introduced me to arrowhead digging. I sent him a photo of stone tools I found along with a scraper in the mix. He said, “you’ve got one scraper, the rest are interesting rock formations”…I was dumbfounded. This guy has collected arrowheads for years but had no knowledge about the other stuff. I don’t understand how you can have a love for arrowheads but not the tools used to make them, create petroglyphs, hunt, fish, chop, carve, etc… Yes, arrowheads are pretty cool and always a rush of excitement to find them, but to me, the tools have so much more to tell and interpret.
@@stephissteph1359 You said it perfectly! Keep on the hunt and good luck on your digs. There's always something to be found one just needs to know what to look for!
You are one brilliant woman!! Not only are you full of knowledge but you also have a gift for teaching your knowledge in a way anyone can understand. To you this may seem normal but it actually is not very common. A lot of people with knowledge can't teach because they talk over the students head ( if you know what I mean!) Thank you for taking your time to share and teach some of your knowledge. Please make more videos!!!! This is now my favorite channel to watch!!😊
Thank you so much. I found a long rock in the creek that had notches carved into it. Polished on one side and 7 distinct lines carved on one end. I could not find any information on the internet about these lines. This rock has been touched by humans , and appears to be a multi tool. I wish I knew what it's purpose was for.
Hard to tell w/o seeing it. I have a fairly extensive collection of artifacts, plus 2 peach baskets full of interesting rocks and stones with grooves cut in them. Mostly by tractors I would imagine!!!
Well done and very informative. I have an Omar stone that's about the size and shape of a child's head and it has perfectly round pits all over it. They are all pretty close to the same size. This stone was found with several others that were similar on private property. It makes a great Halloween display lol
1105 min, artifact was used as a hammer , natives also made bigger sizes , used as sledge hammers. The edge is weak and breaks with high impact from use. I've seen it many times
Thank you, I was thinking same thing basically, and that next one she said is natural "only' I'd have to view it in person to say she is wrong., however I believe that stone has had some polishing potential.
Human modification is very noticeable on stone. It stays there forever. Many forms of modification. Flaking, grinding, pecking, etc. Some may display use wear from being used to hammer flintknap or many other uses. I'm seeing a lot of it fits in the hands folks who fall to understand this.
Many of the pieces I have found that were worked, have been found in or near the beach. Possibly thousands of years of being washed and worn down. Removing most signs of pecking and grinding and napping.
@@216trixie I have a point i traded for from NJ that was found on the beach. Super polished but flake scars are still visible. I was mainly talking about folks who post the obvious non artifacts.
I know a guy who thinks he’s found thousands of artifacts just this summer. He took them to an archaeological dig going on near us and the guys all got their phones out and took pictures of it and told him they had never seen artifacts like that. One was a hammer shaped piece of limestone- with a limestone handle on it lol. He still thinks they don’t recognize his artifacts because they’re not from around here.
In my time finding artifacts, I have Olney ever found one abraider. Everything else was a sharp silicate tool of some kind. Recently I found a white knife of some kind in Wyoming. I would think a hide flesher. Big teeth and fits in the palm just so perfect. It's much easier to forget that they used so many other types. And they are much more difficult to find.
Thanks for the video ! So little information out there on tools and how they were made. I do many videos on late archaic , woodland period tools . I have to say, I have been surprised how many people think I am nuts . They proclaim to be experts and insist that if there is no knapping, it can't be an artifact ?
There are many self-snnointed experts out there who have little imagination. Most of their rantings are little more than conjecture. Your interpretations are as valid as theirs. 👍
I’m a expert. Only stones that I find are legitimate ancient artifacts/tools. So from now on all remotely possible artifacts must be certified by myself. Hey I have a degree in the discovery channel spent 20+ years there. Ahhh ok. Couldn’t resist. Sorry
mate , literally none of the stones you have shown on your channel have had any human modification .. i am well aware of pecking and grinding , not just flaked stone tools . your stones are just stones
Excellent presentation. One item I think is worth mentioning every time, is LEAVE IT where you FOUND IT! If you take something you are stealing the joy of discovery for all eternity to have it at home in a shoebox.
At long last i’ve found this channel/video and yet… no round/ spherical rocks 😅 i see the ones with the grooves yes. However i have this rock round like a baseball, same size. If you flip and turn it; its still spherical, however ever so slightly ‘shorter’ and ‘wider’. Kind of the way the earth is shaped when looking at a map, slightly wider than it is tall. Lots of dings, dents, no chipping, brown, not poo, absolutely a rock but lightweight 0.56 lbs. I may email ‘jean’ who is on your website. Went to find the state of Wi archeologist via your website and it is James Skibo who passed on sadly. Anyway onward in my quest! Going to watch all of these fantastic videos. Thanks for all the work you do!
The stone at 14:45 that you seem to have troubles coming up with what they did with it might not be an artifact at all. I have found many such stones with glacial striations, unidirectional lines cut in the stone at different depths, but not always exactly straight lines. Sometimes the rock can turn while being pushed by a glacier and have two sets of lines that intersect, but each set of lines will be a set of parallel lines rather than being random. These were rocks cut by other rocks while being dragged underneath a glacier. Usually one side is all that has the striations such as the one you showed here, and in my experience in a creek that I know cuts through glacial till, these are quite common. Of course it could very well be an artifact, especially if it was found within a known archaeological site, though I would exercise caution even then if the site is upon glacial soil or right on a creek where flood waters could have deposited it there. Personally I doubt that particular stone has ever been worked by humans.
I still didn't watch the whole video but here it is, in case it's was forgotten: location. That's the best criterion. (it's very hard to tell if it's a griding stone near a river, but if you find one in a mountain, you'll know, simply because of the question "what else could it be?")
For those watching this video, you might find the following you tube video interesting: Discovery- Rock or Artifact by Jennifer Brown. It has a cat scan image of the object!
I have an interesting specimen -- yellow chert, it's been flaked all the way around on one side but not the other. Looks like then the tip failed and broke off, and it got chucked into the river and spent a long time there. (But it's much less worn where it was flaked.) However, no provenance which makes it difficult to be sure.
I found a collection of 33 stone tools revealed in the beach after a recent hurricane. The tools seem highly specialized. I dont know how to interpret.
10:37 is an anvil. It is the squared off surface that is the tool surface. An anvil is usually used with metals and this would be perfect for gold and silver. The opposite side is formed to fit into the ground. Such an anvil could of course also be used for nuts and seeds.
Since you are asking about North America as a whole, the following website is good and allows you to narrow your search by region: www.projectilepoints.net/ For other types of tools, the most detailed study is the one done on Minnesota tools. The points and raw materials are drawn from Minnesota, but the rest of the tools and discussions are pretty typical across North America, and there is a good discussion of fakes and other misleading artifacts. The two pdf files are available to download. Volume 1: mn.gov/admin/assets/stone-tools-of-minnesota-part1_tcm36-247478.pdf Volume 2 (more specific to Minnesota): mn.gov/admin/assets/stone-tools-of-minnesota-part2_tcm36-247479.pdf
that celt looks like a gabbro/glaucophane. Very nice tough material. Im making a knife handle out of some I found up in the Central Valley California foothills near Panoche.
There are a lot of TH-camrs calling their rock collections “artifacts” and it’s seriously beginning to get on my nerves. It’s a symptom of a much deeper educational problem in rural areas.
I would blame teachers🤔 first in regards to bad education > as we see very well in these days, they don't want to educate, only to Indoctrinate, students with their beliefs, fears, morals, or lack there of, and political Idology.
@@joannem3568 I would blame funding, one teacher can only do so much with a class of 20 or 30. Politics at a local level might be the culprit. But the anti science sentiment is the source.
@@perfectperson214 I call BS. Schools get so much $$$$money it's makes all us taxpayers sick. It's not funding. It's bad teachers , as we have seen. Most Recently with Activist teachers, who want communism, not Freedom So, change Our Own mind. Not changing mine.
When we were little kids playing in the sand pits we would find what we called 'Indian Paint Pots'. I think they were just natural round iron ore rocks that were cracked in half. Inside would be yellow to brown and red and orange sandy clay. We would paint our faces with it and play Indian war. Sometimes we threw rocks at each other. I got hit in the head with a rock. I was fine, just got knocked unconcious a little bit.
I wish someone could tell me what a charm stone is used for??? I found 1 all seem to be like a tool made of granite points & smooth in some areas also have like a centered pivot point ? Anyone know what it was used 4 ??? I have also found h shaped soap stones, maybe a fishing line Holder all came from around a large lake type area. Some midden mounds large concentrate of shell's beads & broken pottery.
Not sure what you mean by H shaped, although the first thing that comes to mind would be a stone that was notched to use as a weight for a fishing net.
@@srl2634 Yes, I am familiar with soap stone, what I meant was I suspect they would have used a piece of wood as opposed to soap stone for a hand line due to the weight difference. Maybe we have two different thoughts on what you mean as a hand line?
I recently heard something interesting from a well respected archaeologist. I’m going to paraphrase. “If you find only one Coke can on Mars, wouldn’t you conclude humans were there at some point?” In other words, just because you find only one artifact doesn’t mean it’s not legitimate.
Would I possibly be able to email someone to help me ID some possible stone tools I found a long the Delaware river which is I believe lenne lenape land
Will you show some native carvings you have found on rocks? I would like to find out what some of them mean on the rocks I've found. Also I have several pieces I've found that looks like they have pressed fern leaves into them. At first I thought it was fossils but upon closer inspection I think they were actually pressed into the pieces..... I don't know why though. Would it be for decoration or maybe to insulate something ? I have also found a couple perfect pieces that I think were maybe toys for training the youth? Again this is only what my imagination has told me. I can imagine the children lined up with their bows and arrows and when the "toy" was rolled down in front of them, they would shoot at it like it was a bunny. Again this is just what my imagination has told me.I have found what looks like perfectly carved dice which almost also was a type of game. But one thing I wish I could show you was the petrified deer leg with a hatchet head attached. It's all turned to rock now but you can see and feel the different texture of the clay foundation they put it together with. I have also a couple pieces I think were ceremonial only. Again this coming from my imagination I have also found quite a collection of what I believe to be pipe bowls of all different sizes. I've noticed each one of them are coated inside with the same substance. I have several pump drill rocks and pendants with carvings. All have perfectly rock- drilled holes just as you described.
@@gone235 why would it delete your suggestion?? Ugghhh sorry these computers just aren't my generation! TH-cam is about as far as I go haha! I just don't have the time to set and learn them! I'd rather be outside😁
@@gone235 I will try it because I have found some really cool stuff. I live on 2500 acres that has been in my family for generations hundreds of years back. The trail of tears went through here and some of them settled here which where my ancestors as I am part Cherokee. Way way back on the land is a huge artesian well that shoots out of the ground 24/7 about six feet high. It is the mouth of all these creeks and rivers through here. Apparently that well was quite a hang out spot for Indians and animals, I can walk there any day and find a plethora of arrow heads Indian tools and all kinds of different things from the past. Of chores it's over a five mile hike through the woods but that's what has kept anyone else from finding it.😉 I have hundreds if not thousands of pieces. This may sound strange but to be honest it's like they find me instead of me finding them. I have several 3 D carvings, they look similar to a tiny toy very detailed only they are solid rock. I have never seen no blog but I have heard of them. But I am interested in kens blog if you can tell me how to find it.
@@gone235 p.s. one time over ten years ago I found where some one had dropped their bird point pouch. Well that's what I figured anyway. The pouch was gone but there was a pile of tiny perfect bird points all together. I've also found some things I'm pretty sure was used by a medicine man. Again a lot of my theory's come from my imagination. When I find a cool piece I will hold it in my hands and imagine what they could have used it for. I literally have my tools separated into a left handed pile and a right handed pile. When you have a lot of the same tools it's easy to figure out. Of chores just like today there are more right handed pieces than lefty's 😊I am very careful who I tell about my treasures. But the ones I can't bring home are the coolest. I'm talking about the carvings in the huge cave back about two miles behind that well. That's something I keep to myself cuz if the public knew they would raid it and destroy it. For some reason I trust you though and I would show you if I could.
@@gone235 sorry for all these comments but one more thing: how did they mark their graves? Pretty sure I've found some grave mounds but I don't wanna dig them out of respect. Btw no humans have touched these places besides me in no telling how many decades. It's like it is frozen in time. I also do all my hiking barefoot. You would be surprised what you can feel under the ground with your feet! Especially in the creek. Here in Missouri our water is clear even if it's over your head you can see the bottom. Also, I wanted to Mention some of the carvings tell a story and are obvious what they mean. Some of them I know mean something I just don't know what. Apparently the sun was very important to them. Here in Missouri we have four seasons and I know even in my warm house by the time winter is over I am so ready for summer so I can only imagine how pitiful it was for them. Can you believe one carving that " tells a story" is of Bigfoot riding a dinosaur pulling a huge rock? Lol maybe that was joke they carved I don't know but it's as plain as day. He is riding one of those dinosaurs that look kind of like a rhino just like it was a horse and pulling that huge rock like a skidder pulls a log. Sounds ridiculous but it is there on that cave wall. Now that I'm pushing 50 I do have a fear all these places I've found will die with me, but again I'm afraid of what will happen if the wrong people find out. What do you think I should do? My children are grown now and unfortunately teaching them how to find food in the woods like mushrooms and edible plants was fun when they were little but they've grown out of it. They take for granted the things they have been taught by me like it's common sense knowledge but it's not! Many people don't even know what a morel mushroom is and I have spots where thousands grow every year. And my daughter took the first guy she thought she was in love with to one of my honey holes with out my permission and after they broke up he tried sneaking down to it and I had to run him off. Luckily I live several miles down a dead end gravel road so I know if anyone is on the road that shouldn't be. I do want to share these places I've found but I want it to be respected and I just can't trust no body to do that. If I ever went to any of my secret spots and saw a soda can or a cigarette butt I would absolutely see red. It's kinda like I feel like I found this stuff to protect it. Sorry for the rant. Honestly, What would you do?
My collection is getting out of control. I search along the great miami river here in southwestern ohio. Ive found some beautiful pieces. ....not sure what to do with all them rt now though.
Big salute to you Is there an expert among you in this field because I want to communicate with him to advise me on some of the pieces that I have and I think that they are more than 200 million years old 
Many of the natural stones were used as tools wieghts and jewlery. Some of these pendents are ugly. I think some of these pendants were use as wieghts. Just a thought.❤
Interesting presentation, I will add that the father of geology had to tell everybody that the world was more than a couple thousand years old. I believe he was Scottish. What we know about the Earth and geology we came up with in the past couple hundred years. We have been around for not just thousands but millions of years, we were masters of nature. The slices of the artifacts collected from the mound in North Carolina defy explanation, therefore are considered geofacts despite all the face shapes painted found at one location. Hominoids created stone tools as well. Would you be able to recognize a monkeys art that have the intelligence of a 13 year old? The stone art depics humans and hominoids together! 🗿🔥👍😎👀🦣😁🧩💪🧑🌾🤩✊🥳
I have a Giants Axe . Posted it in an Artifact site., people said I was Nuts just a Stone, but 1 guy asked to see the bottom edge of Axe and Poof just like that my post pic and coments were removed. It has all the ear marks of a Man made object. quite a weight to it also.
Recoding that stuff is kinda like giving away your your favorite fihing hole and you know that it will be fished out and never be that spot again so i would say just let it be your secret cause they all know their coming to clean up most of the findings to be crammed in a box in a closet never to be seen again so whTs the difference between your closet im just saying 😊
Incorrect, I make and use these tools. The pecking is correct, the polished by use is wrong. they are ground to an edge not pecked. same with the groove on the axe head. the chips on the edge were from use, not an attempt to re-sharpen.
God you find it right in the mound and you still question if it's naturally occurring or no! you gotta practice healthy self-criticism 😂🤦 it was clearly fixed to something at centerline. Kind of like a modern mini Sledge Hammer. it's a blunt. Likely used in repetitive shelter prep work or so on and if there was any doubt about that. Yes found in confirmed motherlode 😂 it's okay to be right
The "thumb groove" and "fits your hand perfectly" guys are bad enough, but now there are a bunch of "portable art" "stone effigy" guys. Mass delusion. They range from the sad and pathetic, to the scary and dangerous. The delusion also seems to be contagious to the gullible. This video will not help them.
I agree and disagree, in different regions of the country there are big differences in stone. There are places where you find many ground projectile points, which can baffle most including some archaeologists and then there are areas where you only find flaked projectile points and those are very obvious to be man-made. And if you travel further south into Mesoamericana, the locals down there will have trouble believing these North American artifacts are even artifacts because the artifacts in Mesoamerica are a hundred times more elaborate, artistic, and of much higher skill- I know because there are dozens of tools and effigy's in perfect museum quality at my grandparents house. I must tell you the "thumb groove and fits hand perfectly is legit". You need be able to transport yourself physically, mentally, spiritually, and emotionally many years and generations back to truly be able to understand the humans who made these tools and effigys. And let me tell you 4-6 years of institutionalized academic state curriculum is not enough to understand what humans did 30,000 years ago. So if you're not able to transport yourself physically, mentally, spiritually and emotionally you will not be able to fully understand past human life. I appreciate your passion for this, although you need to humble down a bit and stop calling people pathetic who probably know less than you Madison. And maybe then you may be allowed to be fortunate enough to truly understand all of ancestors lives.
@@alejandroquiros6395 brilliant! I totally agree! Also not just the thumb groves and perfect fit in the hand, I can also tell if it was used by a left hander or right hander. It seems like I can also tell if it was made by an experienced person or a young person just learning. I can also tell if it was a piece well used or made specifically for ceremonial use only. Without transporting myself mentally as you said, I would only see a rock. Some people naturally have the gift and others do but don't know how to use it. And it seems if a person is close minded you can not open their mind for them. I think it's something each person has to learn on their own. You and I are on the same page though.
@@alejandroquiros6395 ground projectile points do not "baffle" anybody ! do you really think there is some sort of mass ignorance or disregard for ground stone tools ? i think you should do some research .. the thumb groove is a lie i am sorry
A lot of the effigy people are meth addicts. If you look at their videos they make 7 every day for 3 months then get distracted by something else useless then it's onto the next tweaker activity and they forget about making artifact videos.
Are you sure about what you just preached? You need to get back out in the fields or creeks. I am out here almost twice a week. Half of what you said, I call bull! Don't need a degree to learn what I learned. I have found some artifacts that made people stop and ask, who are you?
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Thank you very informative. People that I know that search for artifacts are also searching for information, my hope is that Archeologists will take the time to share their knowledge. thanks again
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I find that many folks only look for the sharp, shiny and triangular stone like spear points and arrowheads. I, however, am completely enthralled by the everyday stone tool. There is just something about those deeply personal possessions that I find so very interesting. Thank you for sharing this video. Because there is some serious misinformation being spread on TH-cam regarding the difference between geofacts and artifacts.
Yes! I have a friend who introduced me to arrowhead digging. I sent him a photo of stone tools I found along with a scraper in the mix. He said, “you’ve got one scraper, the rest are interesting rock formations”…I was dumbfounded. This guy has collected arrowheads for years but had no knowledge about the other stuff. I don’t understand how you can have a love for arrowheads but not the tools used to make them, create petroglyphs, hunt, fish, chop, carve, etc…
Yes, arrowheads are pretty cool and always a rush of excitement to find them, but to me, the tools have so much more to tell and interpret.
@@stephissteph1359 You said it perfectly! Keep on the hunt and good luck on your digs. There's always something to be found one just needs to know what to look for!
Found many on my son's land. Antler pieces everywhere
I completely agree, these tools were an everymans essential in those days!
You are one brilliant woman!! Not only are you full of knowledge but you also have a gift for teaching your knowledge in a way anyone can understand. To you this may seem normal but it actually is not very common. A lot of people with knowledge can't teach because they talk over the students head ( if you know what I mean!) Thank you for taking your time to share and teach some of your knowledge. Please make more videos!!!! This is now my favorite channel to watch!!😊
Well said. Im a terrible guitar teacher but i love playing guitar.
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Thank you Dr.Connie Arzigian.
I have been looking for this type of information video on this exact subject for a very long time..just perfect..thank you very much 👍
Fascinating. Thank you for sharing your expertise!
Ma'am, you are so wonderful at teaching these facts; I genuinely appreciate you and your knowledge. Thank you so much
Just perfect, thank you very much Dr.Connie
Fabulously informative. Thank you
Thank you so much for the knowledge. Excellent video
Thank you for the information, not easy to find these things explained so clearly!
very informative , useful video. Thank you so much!
Thank you for making this video. You have answered questions I've had for years
Very informative. Thank You
Great information! Thank you for sharing! You should do more videos
This was great! I enjoyed it.
Thank you very thorough this is the best video I saw thus far very helpful
Thank you so much. I found a long rock in the creek that had notches carved into it. Polished on one side and 7 distinct lines carved on one end. I could not find any information on the internet about these lines. This rock has been touched by humans , and appears to be a multi tool. I wish I knew what it's purpose was for.
Hard to tell w/o seeing it. I have a fairly extensive collection of artifacts, plus 2 peach baskets full of interesting rocks and stones with grooves cut in them. Mostly by tractors I would imagine!!!
@@thomasfoss9963 Thank you. The tractor part never crossed my mind. You may be right.
Well done and very informative. I have an Omar stone that's about the size and shape of a child's head and it has perfectly round pits all over it. They are all pretty close to the same size. This stone was found with several others that were similar on private property. It makes a great Halloween display lol
Thank you for a very informative video
1105 min, artifact was used as a hammer , natives also made bigger sizes , used as sledge hammers. The edge is weak and breaks with high impact from use. I've seen it many times
Thank you, I was thinking same thing basically, and that next one she said is natural "only' I'd have to view it in person to say she is wrong., however I believe that stone has had some polishing potential.
This is great! Thank you for these clear and detailed explanations showing the tools themselves. (Yeah, I found an abrading stone!)
Human modification is very noticeable on stone. It stays there forever. Many forms of modification. Flaking, grinding, pecking, etc. Some may display use wear from being used to hammer flintknap or many other uses. I'm seeing a lot of it fits in the hands folks who fall to understand this.
Many of the pieces I have found that were worked, have been found in or near the beach. Possibly thousands of years of being washed and worn down. Removing most signs of pecking and grinding and napping.
@@216trixie I have a point i traded for from NJ that was found on the beach. Super polished but flake scars are still visible. I was mainly talking about folks who post the obvious non artifacts.
I know a guy who thinks he’s found thousands of artifacts just this summer. He took them to an archaeological dig going on near us and the guys all got their phones out and took pictures of it and told him they had never seen artifacts like that. One was a hammer shaped piece of limestone- with a limestone handle on it lol.
He still thinks they don’t recognize his artifacts because they’re not from around here.
I didn’t know there was a name for these people, but he’s always trying to show me how it fits in his hand.
In my time finding artifacts, I have Olney ever found one abraider. Everything else was a sharp silicate tool of some kind. Recently I found a white knife of some kind in Wyoming. I would think a hide flesher. Big teeth and fits in the palm just so perfect.
It's much easier to forget that they used so many other types. And they are much more difficult to find.
Thanks for the video ! So little information out there on tools and how they were made. I do many videos on late archaic , woodland period tools . I have to say, I have been surprised how many people think I am nuts . They proclaim to be experts and insist that if there is no knapping, it can't be an artifact ?
There are many self-snnointed experts out there who have little imagination. Most of their rantings are little more than conjecture. Your interpretations are as valid as theirs. 👍
I’m a expert. Only stones that I find are legitimate ancient artifacts/tools. So from now on all remotely possible artifacts must be certified by myself. Hey I have a degree in the discovery channel spent 20+ years there. Ahhh ok. Couldn’t resist. Sorry
mate , literally none of the stones you have shown on your channel have had any human modification .. i am well aware of pecking and grinding , not just flaked stone tools . your stones are just stones
I’ve seen some of your videos and think many of your items are just curious shaped rocks.
Excellent presentation. One item I think is worth mentioning every time, is
LEAVE IT where you FOUND IT!
If you take something you are stealing the joy of discovery for all eternity to have it at home in a shoebox.
Very informative, thank you.
At long last i’ve found this channel/video and yet… no round/ spherical rocks 😅 i see the ones with the grooves yes. However i have this rock round like a baseball, same size. If you flip and turn it; its still spherical, however ever so slightly ‘shorter’ and ‘wider’. Kind of the way the earth is shaped when looking at a map, slightly wider than it is tall. Lots of dings, dents, no chipping, brown, not poo, absolutely a rock but lightweight 0.56 lbs. I may email ‘jean’ who is on your website. Went to find the state of Wi archeologist via your website and it is James Skibo who passed on sadly. Anyway onward in my quest! Going to watch all of these fantastic videos. Thanks for all the work you do!
At 14:45 it’s an eagle from the top view the head and beak are facing down can see the spots for eyes even
Thanks. Your video is very informative.
Now, I would like for you to show us examples of effigies.
The stone at 14:45 that you seem to have troubles coming up with what they did with it might not be an artifact at all. I have found many such stones with glacial striations, unidirectional lines cut in the stone at different depths, but not always exactly straight lines. Sometimes the rock can turn while being pushed by a glacier and have two sets of lines that intersect, but each set of lines will be a set of parallel lines rather than being random.
These were rocks cut by other rocks while being dragged underneath a glacier. Usually one side is all that has the striations such as the one you showed here, and in my experience in a creek that I know cuts through glacial till, these are quite common.
Of course it could very well be an artifact, especially if it was found within a known archaeological site, though I would exercise caution even then if the site is upon glacial soil or right on a creek where flood waters could have deposited it there.
Personally I doubt that particular stone has ever been worked by humans.
Thanks. Very thorough and easy to follow. I have so.e pieces I now am sure are geofacts and others that are likely artifacts.
That stone at 21:00 is definitely a potato effigy! :-D Very nice video. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
I still didn't watch the whole video but here it is, in case it's was forgotten: location. That's the best criterion. (it's very hard to tell if it's a griding stone near a river, but if you find one in a mountain, you'll know, simply because of the question "what else could it be?")
For those watching this video, you might find the following you tube video interesting: Discovery- Rock or Artifact by Jennifer Brown. It has a cat scan image of the object!
I have an interesting specimen -- yellow chert, it's been flaked all the way around on one side but not the other. Looks like then the tip failed and broke off, and it got chucked into the river and spent a long time there. (But it's much less worn where it was flaked.) However, no provenance which makes it difficult to be sure.
Awesome stuff. I just hope one day people will quit selling these off....
I found a collection of 33 stone tools revealed in the beach after a recent hurricane. The tools seem highly specialized. I dont know how to interpret.
10:37 is an anvil. It is the squared off surface that is the tool surface. An anvil is usually used with metals and this would be perfect for gold and silver. The opposite side is formed to fit into the ground. Such an anvil could of course also be used for nuts and seeds.
Thank you for this very informative presentation. Are there any reliable field guides of N American artifacts?
Since you are asking about North America as a whole, the following website is good and allows you to narrow your search by region: www.projectilepoints.net/
For other types of tools, the most detailed study is the one done on Minnesota tools. The points and raw materials are drawn from Minnesota, but the rest of the tools and discussions are pretty typical across North America, and there is a good discussion of fakes and other misleading artifacts. The two pdf files are available to download.
Volume 1: mn.gov/admin/assets/stone-tools-of-minnesota-part1_tcm36-247478.pdf
Volume 2 (more specific to Minnesota): mn.gov/admin/assets/stone-tools-of-minnesota-part2_tcm36-247479.pdf
Here in South Africa we found alot of similar grounding stones on our farm
How do they feel in your hand? Does it feel like they were left or right handed?
that celt looks like a gabbro/glaucophane. Very nice tough material. Im making a knife handle out of some I found up in the Central Valley California foothills near Panoche.
There are a lot of TH-camrs calling their rock collections “artifacts” and it’s seriously beginning to get on my nerves. It’s a symptom of a much deeper educational problem in rural areas.
I would blame teachers🤔 first in regards to bad education > as we see very well in these days, they don't want to educate, only to Indoctrinate, students with their beliefs, fears, morals, or lack there of, and political Idology.
@@joannem3568 I would blame funding, one teacher can only do so much with a class of 20 or 30. Politics at a local level might be the culprit. But the anti science sentiment is the source.
@@perfectperson214 I call BS. Schools get so much $$$$money it's makes all us taxpayers sick. It's not funding. It's bad teachers , as we have seen. Most Recently with Activist teachers, who want communism, not Freedom
So, change Our Own mind. Not changing mine.
@@perfectperson214 it's not lack of funding that's the problem, it's people like you
@@joannem3568 Schools get so much money?? 🤣 😂🤣
When we were little kids playing in the sand pits we would find what we called 'Indian Paint Pots'. I think they were just natural round iron ore rocks that were cracked in half. Inside would be yellow to brown and red and orange sandy clay. We would paint our faces with it and play Indian war. Sometimes we threw rocks at each other. I got hit in the head with a rock. I was fine, just got knocked unconcious a little bit.
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Good video!
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I wish someone could tell me what a charm stone is used for??? I found 1 all seem to be like a tool made of granite points & smooth in some areas also have like a centered pivot point ? Anyone know what it was used 4 ??? I have also found h shaped soap stones, maybe a fishing line Holder all came from around a large lake type area. Some midden mounds large concentrate of shell's beads & broken pottery.
Not sure what you mean by H shaped, although the first thing that comes to mind would be a stone that was notched to use as a weight for a fishing net.
@@jerrybruckhart9134 I am thinking it would have been used as a handline for fishing = the H shaped soapstone.
@@srl2634 Maybe, but I still lean toward the net weight because wood would be lighter for some sort of hand line.
@@jerrybruckhart9134 soap stone is what we collected not wood. , The Bakersfield area was a swamp is area I'm talking about, old Yokut tribe .
@@srl2634 Yes, I am familiar with soap stone, what I meant was I suspect they would have used a piece of wood as opposed to soap stone for a hand line due to the weight difference. Maybe we have two different thoughts on what you mean as a hand line?
I recently heard something interesting from a well respected archaeologist. I’m going to paraphrase. “If you find only one Coke can on Mars, wouldn’t you conclude humans were there at some point?” In other words, just because you find only one artifact doesn’t mean it’s not legitimate.
Would I possibly be able to email someone to help me ID some possible stone tools I found a long the Delaware river which is I believe lenne lenape land
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Hi Connie how are you ma'am? I'm new to U're channel I love stuff like this video ma'am ♥️ ♥️👍😃 🖐
Do you have contact info? I live in mn on white bear lake. I have some artifacts I have found and need help with identification please
For contact information visit MVAC’s website at: www.uwlax.edu/mvac/contact/.
Will you show some native carvings you have found on rocks? I would like to find out what some of them mean on the rocks I've found. Also I have several pieces I've found that looks like they have pressed fern leaves into them. At first I thought it was fossils but upon closer inspection I think they were actually pressed into the pieces..... I don't know why though. Would it be for decoration or maybe to insulate something ? I have also found a couple perfect pieces that I think were maybe toys for training the youth? Again this is only what my imagination has told me. I can imagine the children lined up with their bows and arrows and when the "toy" was rolled down in front of them, they would shoot at it like it was a bunny. Again this is just what my imagination has told me.I have found what looks like perfectly carved dice which almost also was a type of game. But one thing I wish I could show you was the petrified deer leg with a hatchet head attached. It's all turned to rock now but you can see and feel the different texture of the clay foundation they put it together with. I have also a couple pieces I think were ceremonial only. Again this coming from my imagination I have also found quite a collection of what I believe to be pipe bowls of all different sizes. I've noticed each one of them are coated inside with the same substance. I have several pump drill rocks and pendants with carvings. All have perfectly rock- drilled holes just as you described.
@@gone235 thank you!!! I'm embarrassed to say I don't know nothing about the Wikipedia. What do I type in? Thanks again
@@gone235 why would it delete your suggestion?? Ugghhh sorry these computers just aren't my generation! TH-cam is about as far as I go haha! I just don't have the time to set and learn them! I'd rather be outside😁
@@gone235 I will try it because I have found some really cool stuff. I live on 2500 acres that has been in my family for generations hundreds of years back. The trail of tears went through here and some of them settled here which where my ancestors as I am part Cherokee. Way way back on the land is a huge artesian well that shoots out of the ground 24/7 about six feet high. It is the mouth of all these creeks and rivers through here. Apparently that well was quite a hang out spot for Indians and animals, I can walk there any day and find a plethora of arrow heads Indian tools and all kinds of different things from the past. Of chores it's over a five mile hike through the woods but that's what has kept anyone else from finding it.😉 I have hundreds if not thousands of pieces. This may sound strange but to be honest it's like they find me instead of me finding them. I have several 3 D carvings, they look similar to a tiny toy very detailed only they are solid rock. I have never seen no blog but I have heard of them. But I am interested in kens blog if you can tell me how to find it.
@@gone235 p.s. one time over ten years ago I found where some one had dropped their bird point pouch. Well that's what I figured anyway. The pouch was gone but there was a pile of tiny perfect bird points all together. I've also found some things I'm pretty sure was used by a medicine man. Again a lot of my theory's come from my imagination. When I find a cool piece I will hold it in my hands and imagine what they could have used it for. I literally have my tools separated into a left handed pile and a right handed pile. When you have a lot of the same tools it's easy to figure out. Of chores just like today there are more right handed pieces than lefty's 😊I am very careful who I tell about my treasures. But the ones I can't bring home are the coolest. I'm talking about the carvings in the huge cave back about two miles behind that well. That's something I keep to myself cuz if the public knew they would raid it and destroy it. For some reason I trust you though and I would show you if I could.
@@gone235 sorry for all these comments but one more thing: how did they mark their graves? Pretty sure I've found some grave mounds but I don't wanna dig them out of respect. Btw no humans have touched these places besides me in no telling how many decades. It's like it is frozen in time. I also do all my hiking barefoot. You would be surprised what you can feel under the ground with your feet! Especially in the creek. Here in Missouri our water is clear even if it's over your head you can see the bottom. Also, I wanted to Mention some of the carvings tell a story and are obvious what they mean. Some of them I know mean something I just don't know what. Apparently the sun was very important to them. Here in Missouri we have four seasons and I know even in my warm house by the time winter is over I am so ready for summer so I can only imagine how pitiful it was for them. Can you believe one carving that " tells a story" is of Bigfoot riding a dinosaur pulling a huge rock? Lol maybe that was joke they carved I don't know but it's as plain as day. He is riding one of those dinosaurs that look kind of like a rhino just like it was a horse and pulling that huge rock like a skidder pulls a log. Sounds ridiculous but it is there on that cave wall. Now that I'm pushing 50 I do have a fear all these places I've found will die with me, but again I'm afraid of what will happen if the wrong people find out. What do you think I should do? My children are grown now and unfortunately teaching them how to find food in the woods like mushrooms and edible plants was fun when they were little but they've grown out of it. They take for granted the things they have been taught by me like it's common sense knowledge but it's not! Many people don't even know what a morel mushroom is and I have spots where thousands grow every year. And my daughter took the first guy she thought she was in love with to one of my honey holes with out my permission and after they broke up he tried sneaking down to it and I had to run him off. Luckily I live several miles down a dead end gravel road so I know if anyone is on the road that shouldn't be. I do want to share these places I've found but I want it to be respected and I just can't trust no body to do that. If I ever went to any of my secret spots and saw a soda can or a cigarette butt I would absolutely see red. It's kinda like I feel like I found this stuff to protect it. Sorry for the rant. Honestly, What would you do?
My collection is getting out of control. I search along the great miami river here in southwestern ohio. Ive found some beautiful pieces. ....not sure what to do with all them rt now though.
thanks
Big salute to you Is there an expert among you in this field because I want to communicate with him to advise me on some of the pieces that I have and I think that they are more than 200 million years old

Found a grind stone with finger grooves and thought it was strange till i found a hammer stone with the same grooves,they were about 2 miles apart.
When we were excavating with GAS we called the natural rocks love stones.
How about Bird stone's.
Many of the natural stones were used as tools wieghts and jewlery. Some of these pendents are ugly. I think some of these pendants were use as wieghts. Just a thought.❤
Interesting presentation, I will add that the father of geology had to tell everybody that the world was more than a couple thousand years old. I believe he was Scottish. What we know about the Earth and geology we came up with in the past couple hundred years. We have been around for not just thousands but millions of years, we were masters of nature. The slices of the artifacts collected from the mound in North Carolina defy explanation, therefore are considered geofacts despite all the face shapes painted found at one location. Hominoids created stone tools as well. Would you be able to recognize a monkeys art that have the intelligence of a 13 year old? The stone art depics humans and hominoids together! 🗿🔥👍😎👀🦣😁🧩💪🧑🌾🤩✊🥳
Masters of nature? Hardly.
You mention artifacts that were found in a pit with other artifacts. Why were things together in a pit?
Thank you for sharing, if youre interested I have a couple vids showing what I've found here in Ontario, Canada!
I think the stone you say is natural is very flat on one side it looks like an Atl Atl weight 😎
I have a Giants Axe . Posted it in an Artifact site., people said I was Nuts just a Stone, but 1 guy asked to see the bottom edge of Axe and Poof just like that my post pic and coments were removed. It has all the ear marks of a Man made object. quite a weight to it also.
Ahahahahaaha this comment section is out of control. Nothing brings loonies out of the woodwork like artifacts.
If its not a tool, its just a rock!
No. I have found many artifacts in my yard that were neither tools nor weapons. They're effigies. 🗿
It's clearly Atlantean stone casting technology
Recoding that stuff is kinda like giving away your your favorite fihing hole and you know that it will be fished out and never be that spot again so i would say just let it be your secret cause they all know their coming to clean up most of the findings to be crammed in a box in a closet never to be seen again so whTs the difference between your closet im just saying 😊
Incorrect, I make and use these tools. The pecking is correct, the polished by use is wrong. they are ground to an edge not pecked. same with the groove on the axe head. the chips on the edge were from use, not an attempt to re-sharpen.
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God you find it right in the mound and you still question if it's naturally occurring or no! you gotta practice healthy self-criticism 😂🤦 it was clearly fixed to something at centerline. Kind of like a modern mini Sledge Hammer. it's a blunt. Likely used in repetitive shelter prep work or so on and if there was any doubt about that. Yes found in confirmed motherlode 😂 it's okay to be right
Don't see how you can prove that amy stone or rock was used or not by people. You only know what you have been taught. That doesn't mean anything.
Science. It’s a thing. Do your research.
The "thumb groove" and "fits your hand perfectly" guys are bad enough, but now there are a bunch of "portable art" "stone effigy" guys. Mass delusion. They range from the sad and pathetic, to the scary and dangerous. The delusion also seems to be contagious to the gullible. This video will not help them.
I agree and disagree, in different regions of the country there are big differences in stone. There are places where you find many ground projectile points, which can baffle most including some archaeologists and then there are areas where you only find flaked projectile points and those are very obvious to be man-made. And if you travel further south into Mesoamericana, the locals down there will have trouble believing these North American artifacts are even artifacts because the artifacts in Mesoamerica are a hundred times more elaborate, artistic, and of much higher skill- I know because there are dozens of tools and effigy's in perfect museum quality at my grandparents house. I must tell you the "thumb groove and fits hand perfectly is legit". You need be able to transport yourself physically, mentally, spiritually, and emotionally many years and generations back to truly be able to understand the humans who made these tools and effigys. And let me tell you 4-6 years of institutionalized academic state curriculum is not enough to understand what humans did 30,000 years ago. So if you're not able to transport yourself physically, mentally, spiritually and emotionally you will not be able to fully understand past human life. I appreciate your passion for this, although you need to humble down a bit and stop calling people pathetic who probably know less than you Madison. And maybe then you may be allowed to be fortunate enough to truly understand all of ancestors lives.
@@alejandroquiros6395 brilliant! I totally agree! Also not just the thumb groves and perfect fit in the hand, I can also tell if it was used by a left hander or right hander. It seems like I can also tell if it was made by an experienced person or a young person just learning. I can also tell if it was a piece well used or made specifically for ceremonial use only. Without transporting myself mentally as you said, I would only see a rock. Some people naturally have the gift and others do but don't know how to use it. And it seems if a person is close minded you can not open their mind for them. I think it's something each person has to learn on their own. You and I are on the same page though.
@@alejandroquiros6395 ground projectile points do not "baffle" anybody ! do you really think there is some sort of mass ignorance or disregard for ground stone tools ? i think you should do some research .. the thumb groove is a lie i am sorry
A lot of the effigy people are meth addicts. If you look at their videos they make 7 every day for 3 months then get distracted by something else useless then it's onto the next tweaker activity and they forget about making artifact videos.
If it's not a tool-it's just a rock! So many morons
they are all artifacts and worked such bs
I Create the Heaven & Earth less than 7000 years ago.
There is no such think as "Millions of years ago"
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Finally the religious nuts have weighed in.
Are you sure about what you just preached? You need to get back out in the fields or creeks. I am out here almost twice a week. Half of what you said, I call bull! Don't need a degree to learn what I learned. I have found some artifacts that made people stop and ask, who are you?
Haven’t watched yet, but the one rock is definitely an Omar. Totally natural.
That last one wasn’t a vitrified tooth?