Ok, I am truly bitter with jealousy.I have a pretty decent collection of Native American artifacts including some with holes in them. I have no clue what to call them , here is a few.
Ok, I am truly bitter with jealousy.I have a pretty decent collection of Native American artifacts including some with holes in them. I have no clue what to call them , here is a few.
Thanks for posting. That is another great collection! Also, I see there are some of those dang celts mixed in thereI really can’t take credit for them, I found some of them but my grandfather found almost all of them along with my father. He traveled to every state with heads he found in Virginia to trade with local collectors.
Assuming that print is indeed a print and not a petroglyph, and is in a sedimentary formation, I pray a paleontologist has been notified and will document it. I do not know of a material that will solidify in 20-23K years (typical accepted oldest potential date of human settlement in North America). There is circumstantial evidence they were earlier, likely much earlier. This could rewrite a lot of history.My collection is quite small but all picked up myself mostly in the area around Lexington Texas.
The the animal and human prints in the stone were taken on a ranch near Sonora Texas.
I also have some pottery shards and a matate with Mano found on my property in nw Colorado.
Everything is indented fairly deep into the stone. The ranch I hunted on said it had been reported to some organization but I can't verify that. There was one other possible footprint that wasn't quite as clear in the lower right of the one photo.Assuming that print is indeed a print and not a petroglyph, and is in a sedimentary formation, I pray a paleontologist has been notified and will document it. I do not know of a material that will solidify in 20-23K years (typical accepted oldest potential date of human settlement in North America). There is circumstantial evidence they were earlier, likely much earlier. This could rewrite a lot of history.
Those look like sheep or goat tracks, has anyone verified what they are?Everything is indented fairly deep into the stone. The ranch I hunted on said it had been reported to some organization but I can't verify that. There was one other footprint that wasn't quite a clear also
Not that I'm aware ofThose look like sheep or goat tracks, has anyone verified what they are?
In one of those last pictures you can see the toe of my size 12 shoe.Definitely looks like some deer and rounded hooves of some other animal
Yep, those tracks could be called a mystery! The circular depression appears to be a grinding pit (mortar)- same function as a metate w/mano. Its use would require a pestle. I have seen those in SW NM. Those tracks are a different matter. Yikes, definitely look like cloven hoof with dew claws. Got me? The only track ways I've ever personally seen were in some exposed siltstone deposits dated to 150 million years or so and made by early, large amphibian. Large mammal tracks in hard stone formation??? Could they have been purposefully gouged out to portray mammal tracks?Just a couple other photos from same location
There are some rather incredible dinosaur prints near Tuba City, AZ - but they are 200 million years old - long before our earliest humanoid ancestors.Yep, those tracks could be called a mystery! The circular depression appears to be a grinding pit (mortar)- same function as a metate w/mano. Its use would require a pestle. I have seen those in SW NM. Those tracks are a different matter. Yikes, definitely look like cloven hoof with dew claws. Got me? The only track ways I've ever personally seen were in some exposed siltstone deposits dated to 150 million years or so and made by early, large amphibian. Large mammal tracks in hard stone formation??? Could they have been purposefully gouged out to portray mammal tracks?