We went sledding at my cousin's in-laws yesterday evening not far outside of Ann Arbor.
I noticed they had a nice collection of rocks, and mentioned it. My cousin's mother-in-law then pulled this out of a small bowl that was on a shelf.
She had it examined, and was told that it was about 8000 years old, and was used as a knife. Their son found it in their backyard several years ago. I should have put a coin next to it. It's about as long as my index finger.
There are similarly shaped stones down here near where the Seminoles along with other tribes lived a while back. Another popular use was fashioning the notches to feathered shafts to make arrows. On a sidenote, thought this post was going to relate to Devac's machete mystery.
Insane to see 'tech' from then that's so old be so recent in it's iterations. Hell, the tool culture even further back (to our eyes) was shaping out similarly. Nice she was able to pick it out. I remember camping at an old site in TX and we were lucky enough to spot some. Always boggles my mind that another human - perhaps ancestor - was the one to shape the same stones we're holding thousands of years later.
I would love to find one someday. I have always been one to look at the ground, but have yet to find anything like this. If I were them, I wouldn't be able to resist the urge to excavate the backyard. No doubt. I suppose this is how it looked fastened:Always boggles my mind that another human - perhaps ancestor - was the one to shape the same stones we're holding thousands of years later.
