Finding Prehistoric Artifacts In The High Desert - Obsidian Everywhere
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- Enroute to a desert spring I wanted to explore around, I noticed an interesting land feature. It was a long rock outcropping that ran parallel with a wide creek bed and it ran North/South for some distance.
I figured that would've been a good place to hang out a long time ago, higher up on stable ground above a possible running creek. I'm looking at this area at a time when things were a little different, wetter and cooler...not the dry desert it is today.
Anyway, I headed up to explore the area and I was quite amazed at what I found. Everywhere I walked, for a least a quarter mile, was covered in lithic debris from mass tool production. It had to have been on huge scale, well..large enough to be very impressive in prehistoric times. There was so much debris that I felt this area must have been a tool production hub. The finished products used as currency for other goods, trade, ornaments, food, etc. There was so much that I figured it was something more than just a seasonal hunting camp used for generations. Although, maybe it's all the above!
So join me as I head out into the desert to discover what once was...
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Visitation to sites such as this should be done with the utmost respect. The artwork is not simply graffiti, it is a window into the past and it is culturally significant. Please take great care when visiting and observing these places.
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Could be an axe, it does look like it. The little white stone could be a decoration from a dress, shirt, skirt, cradle board, blanket?
Another great episode 👍🏻. It’s neat to imagine hundreds of ancient people in that one area working obsidian. I hope your truck made it out of there 🤞🏻
1st comment on a sweet channel! Just love the exploration and artifacts!
Scrapers used on hides? What were scrapers used for do you think. Thanks.
Impressive discovery of a quite large ancient village or seasonal camp site(s). This venture's highlights are definitely your locating the very remarkable plethora of obsidian tool remnants, axe head, huge scraper, knife blade(s) and butchering flakes. Awesome adventure! Thanks and I hope your truck was repairable. Adios!
Very cool!
Couple of things I see here.
It’s likely you are correct, that there was manufacturing there.
I worked on a project similar to this, and was explained this way.
That you are near a lithium source, obsidian would’ve been broken down to smaller transportable pieces to be worked elsewhere.
Probably for trade also.
This big ace pieces could be “blanks”, which are also made then carried elsewhere.
The first big piece you found was the tell for me, with the percussion bulb on that piece.
A lot of theses were started, then flaws caused fractures etc, as well as inclusions that cause breakage.
Obsidian is cool stuff.
A man I knew back in Camp Verde Az, who knapped, made surgical blades for his heart surgery. Wounds healed in just a couple weeks.
So the Old Ones knew this this too.
Excellent D-Rock!
What an awesome adventure! Thanks for sharing 😊 glad you made it out of there safely with those truck issues!
I think that mite have been a quarry because those pieces were percussion chipped then would take them back to a camp and presser flake them to a Finnished product
Following the water, amazing what’s waiting 😎😎😎
Alot of those broken in half bifaces were broke in production.
Aww we need your vehicle in good condition so that you can make these awesome videos.
My son and I lived out in high desert country for years and we walked across the road to miles of preformed obsidian tools. It was the most interesting place to live but hard to live out there. Best piece I found was a salmon red jasper point made in the shape of a bison head.
Thanks again for letting us tag along!
Great to be included in your discoveries, very enjoyable. Is your dog familiar and careful with snakes?
Yes, she is snake trained but we still have encounters.
Water has been the most common terraforming tool used by Earth, to sculpt the world we know. The results aren't all that old (not "millions of years ago"), completed barely 3,000 years ago, in the main, with some "minor" modifications in the millennia since then (probably delayed reactions from the cause of the earlier events, or aftereffects of them). About 4,250 years ago, tsunamis raced across the planet, back and forth, doing massive "damage" in their rampages. North America was "put together" during that period, of four major pieces, solidified into its current "shape" about 3,250 years ago.
I know, I know, not "canon", but reality. The evidence stares back at us, as we race by in our air-conditioned vehicles, of a time when massive amounts of water flowed over the driest regions on the planet, sitting for long periods of time, in a few places now bone dry. Volcanoes raged, blowing their tops, and laying down fresh beds of lava, on top of earlier flows. Descendants of the few humans to survive this "impossible" scenario still tell strange tales, today, although the meanings have been lost to time.
I've picked up, and discarded, literally thousands of pieces like you display. I've been rattling around the American West and Southwest, since my Dad took us to California, in the Spring of 1953, when I was still 4 months shy of my 4th birthday. I played on Anasazi ruins, as child, thought of the Grand Canyon as a personal playground, and traveled more than 100,000 miles by the time I was ten. By the time I left home, at 17, I estimate we'd traveled up to 250,000 miles, often crossing and recrossing the same region from different directions, using different two-lane blacktops, where they were available. I saw the West, before fences and Interstates!
I have a fully-realized theory of how, and why, if you are interested. Suffice to say, a massive amount of water, perhaps 50 billion acre-feet, came rushing across southern WY and northern CO, into the Western lands, where a shallow sea still occupied the area between the back side of the Front Range, and the distant Sierras. The uplift of the Wasatch Front (similar to the Sandia Crest, 500 miles south-southwest) closed off that distance, stranding a nearly-400-mile-diameter inland sea that lasted almost 3,000 years, fostering one of the prominent cultures of the ancient (new) world.
I'd be interested in knowing where you were. It looks like NM, but could easily be CO or UT, too. My traveling days are done, unfortunately, but the mind can take me wherever I want to go.
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Where is the obsidian source? I definitely think this was hunting ground. But, in Arizona you can see walls still sticking up in areas of settlement. I just think, you need a new tip, you make one from your bag of obsidian you bought with you on the hunt. I'm not seeing the ancient water source for settlement.
The mountain at the end of the video has to be the obsidian source. Hope your truck is ok.
Sure looks like an axe