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  • Stone artifacts found on the American Continent used by the Ancient inhabitants of the Americas including the American Indian. In this particular video a variety of wedge type stone axes are shown and compared to each other in their similarities and differences. Also those crafted through the method of pecking and grinding.

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  • @dougjenkins9549
    @dougjenkins9549 6 років тому +6

    Son, all you have is sex stones, we call them f---ing rocks.

  • @kylerjanovec3906
    @kylerjanovec3906 6 років тому +7

    You need help

  • @eastcoastlithics
    @eastcoastlithics 2 роки тому +2

    Sorry but these are just rocks

  • @jameswosochlo6360
    @jameswosochlo6360 5 років тому +6

    Sorry people, these are no artifacts. Some individuals like this person run off of hope and best wishes of finding real artifacts. I would like to see this person take these artifacts to a show and get expert opinions. Just uses great terms like Grinding, uniface, pecking... worked... none of these stones.. rocks.. have any of that. No matter how many times you tell these people, they are hell bent on false hopes.. just sad to see them try to educate the public.

    • @johncox9806
      @johncox9806 3 роки тому

      Alright, if these are NOT artifacts then what DID the ancient people use for tools to make what they needed to survive. Come on. Show us what they used.

    • @nox7282
      @nox7282 Рік тому

      @@johncox9806 You can find examples of these tools in books, research and museums. Have you ever bothered to look?

  • @sierraquigley1989
    @sierraquigley1989 5 років тому +9

    The comments is what kept me here

  • @Jason1975ism
    @Jason1975ism 5 років тому +9

    not slate, slate is also not volcanic, not a tool of any kind on this table. this is what we professional Archaeologists call geofacts. nice try and it is cool you have a passion but you have nothing here made, modified, or used by people.

    • @FarginIceholeful
      @FarginIceholeful 2 місяці тому

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
      Professional? Wow you've never set foot in a museum? Dude I've been on several digs in Arizona/Utah where plenty of those same examples have been found. You are a damn liar! 😂😂😂😂

    • @Jason1975ism
      @Jason1975ism 2 місяці тому

      @@FarginIceholeful I stand behind my statement, THERE'S NO ARTIFACTS OF ANY KIND. Slate tools exist but these ain't them. You are the liar. 99% of archaeology doesn't happen in museums 😂. You're a fool.

    • @Jason1975ism
      @Jason1975ism 2 місяці тому

      @@FarginIceholeful I replied to your stupid remark but it vanished. Yes, archaeology is all about the museum. And basalt and slate are the same thing. I'm sorry I doubted your discerning eye. These artifacts are probably worth millions of dollars. Handle them with care and watch out for Nazis.

    • @FarginIceholeful
      @FarginIceholeful 2 місяці тому +1

      @@Jason1975ism Yeah it sounds like you know absolutely nothing. I'm not even an archeologist and I can tell these are tools. If they are just "rocks", then tell me how I have several of these that are EXACT copies of the same "rock".

    • @Jason1975ism
      @Jason1975ism 2 місяці тому

      @@FarginIceholeful okay fine, put them on a website for sale and sell just 1, for any price. I'll wait. Go ahead. Or take them to your local museum and get another opinion. Or better yet, find a local arrowhead collector and see what they offer. These aren't man made tools. You can get snarky all you want and I'll still be right. If they were artifacts I would be glad to identify them for free. I would spend time explaining everything about them. But they're not artifacts. I'm not going to humor anyone and get their hopes up. These are leaverites and geofacts. Pseudo morphs. Plain semi angular river rocks.

  • @gabriel19551
    @gabriel19551 6 років тому +13

    Sorry William but you have no artifacts there.

  • @artifactman660
    @artifactman660 3 роки тому +5

    You need to go back to artifacts 101. Put the pipe down.lol

  • @artifactman660
    @artifactman660 6 років тому +19

    Your joking right?

    • @trenttillman747
      @trenttillman747 5 років тому +3

      That is nothing but a rock you idiot

    • @jacobbradenbaugh2035
      @jacobbradenbaugh2035 5 років тому +2

      This bitch is a fucking idiot

    • @LaurensMuse77
      @LaurensMuse77 5 років тому +5

      Jacob Bradenbaugh why do you have to be so mean dude? Some of them could be rocks. Some are old and weathered fragments. I’ve been studying and hunting artifacts for the better part of 30years. After a while, things become unmistakable to your eye. Now, I won’t say whether this guy has something or not because i prefer it to be in my hands but i will say, old old weathered pieces are abundant and most people would not recognize it at all. Unless you know, ya don’t really know. Ya know?

    • @Mav8887.
      @Mav8887. 4 роки тому +2

      @@LaurensMuse77 are you joking?????? Not one artifact in this video. Your just as dumb as the guy in the video

    • @tallygator2436
      @tallygator2436 4 роки тому

      Without holding in your hand I would say your the idiot Indians where very resourceful and would use anything they could to get a particular job done

  • @jimmcdees1341
    @jimmcdees1341 4 роки тому +6

    I honestly don't think any of them where true tools

  • @bty1471
    @bty1471 4 роки тому +7

    No these are just rocks

  • @jimtroiano7244
    @jimtroiano7244 4 роки тому +2

    Lay off the dope

  • @quad50mg
    @quad50mg Рік тому +2

    I am finding similar tools . Always wondering if they are authentic or natural stones ?
    I am also finding stones that have obvious rubbing and grove marks in them , without hafting marks on them .

  • @309schaefer9
    @309schaefer9 7 років тому +9

    Just like every other rock in any creek. Sorry guy, not even close to the real deal.

  • @jak3589
    @jak3589 2 роки тому +3

    These are natural sandstones smoothed out by water & notches come about by other rocks hitting it as it tumbled in the water maybe you should research more

  • @LaurensMuse77
    @LaurensMuse77 5 років тому +19

    So many people posting think they are experts. Some old old old artifacts are worn down. So many were from early man. Not all artifacts are beautifully chipped chert or shiny pointy obsidian. Later on, sure. Experts on any subject all think outside the box. Try it folks.P.S. Don’t rip on me please. It’s my own self learned and thoughtful opinion. Cheers.

    • @williambrandondavis6897
      @williambrandondavis6897 4 роки тому +2

      If that's the case then every creek I have walked in my entire 40 years has been literally filled with axe heads and other random ancient stone tools. It's a fact the natives learned how to shape the stones by observing how the river does it naturally. Only when you see things the river couldn't naturally do can you really be sure that whatever you found was actually made by a person. I did not see that in any of these pieces. I'm not saying they were not made by someone. What I am saying is with what we have to look at I couldn't say that I see anything that the river or creek couldn't have done by itself.

    • @LaurensMuse77
      @LaurensMuse77 4 роки тому +4

      William Brandon Davis I can appreciate your opinion in part. But, your "fact" on natives learning how to shape rocks by watching the river do it is certainly questionable. In my 50 years of living and my 20 years of studying and collecting; not one time have I heard anyone suggest this theory. Not one professor; no avid collectors; haven't seen that in any books either. I guess anything is possible but in terms of debating, I don't think that's a very strong point; in my opinion. I'm always interested in figuring out why people in the field of artifacts and fossils are adamant that their knowledge is the law. I'm not picking on you; this is just a side note. Something I've experienced time and time again. It's just odd to me is all. Again, just a side note.

  • @monkeybutttt1
    @monkeybutttt1 7 років тому +9

    You seem like a nice guy but you are reaching. These aren't worked.

  • @Lisaj4431
    @Lisaj4431 3 роки тому +4

    I live in Indiana and have several Springs on my property and everytime I dig a posthole I find something, keeping them for my grandchildren.

    • @georgehays4908
      @georgehays4908 2 роки тому

      I grew up in Lake County , Indiana . Near the Kankakee . It's near to Lowell Indiana . West Creek was my best place to go . Now all the fields are built on my old best places . 2 Tomahawk , many spear tips , a few knives , and many scrapers ! I'd go fishing , hunting , and dirt biking . ...then spend the whole day looking for arrow heading . Have you ever heard of the Great Marsh ? Great times in the early 70 ' s . Peace , from Cass County MICHIGAN , USA ! Maranatha !

  • @kyleshoemaker351
    @kyleshoemaker351 4 роки тому +2

    This isn’t for real is it?

  • @billpickard6169
    @billpickard6169 2 місяці тому +1

    Buy some books and don't quit your day job

  • @clintonzachary4942
    @clintonzachary4942 8 років тому +14

    This video is false. These are naturally fractured/weathered/eroded stones.

  • @tunahelpa5433
    @tunahelpa5433 5 років тому +5

    Very controversial claim. They tell you to read the books about flint tools and how they are made. Did they watch the video? Number 1, these tools are NOT flint. Number 2, they are not found in situ because who wants to carry 100 lbs of rocks everywhere they go. Number 3, they are uninformed because there are no books on these, what I call blunt stone tools( to distinguish them from ground stone tools. ). Number 4, I will write the book and then the scientists will be able to run scientific tests to prove or disprove it; after which everyone who doubted you will be honor-bound to recant.
    But until then, these are no more than geofacts ( I like to call geofacts "naturals", because I had to call them something. There are naturals that follow these paradigms. Sometimes.
    I find mine in parking lots, my own front yards, vacant lots, etc.
    The key would be if they cannot be found in, for instance, Europe or Australia or northern Alaska.
    How many do you have and what states are they from? Just curious.

  • @jasonwil5600
    @jasonwil5600 3 роки тому +15

    Some people only recognise knapped tools, but don't realise people didn't always have that skill, they made crude tools to get them by, simple as that. Beautiful tools came along much later. Oldowan tools look like natural breakage, but because they were found by "specialist, archeologist" they are amazing tools. We know more than these people think we do. Well done for finding these and keep ot up

    • @scottbryant2191
      @scottbryant2191 3 роки тому

      B.s. you cannot use a hardstone tool such as a hammer or a mano or an axe without either altering the stones surface to shape the tool or there has to be some evidence of wear use. You cannot hit a stone or use a stone against something without there being some evidence left behind. What you just said is the most idiotic thing I've ever heard. You need to educate yourself and not blow smoke up peoples arses

    • @thomash4950
      @thomash4950 Рік тому +1

      In the United States that isn’t true. From the earliest evidence of man in North America we get some of the most refined tools ever made (Clovis, Folsom, dalton, Cumberland etc.) even some of the theorized pre-Clovis points they are still refined bifaces.

    • @stikaeric4301
      @stikaeric4301 7 місяців тому

      Some archaeologists are saying man has been in America for 20,000 years-pre-clovis. Also as far as nice refined tools-- not as much East of the Appalachian mountains @@thomash4950

    • @jrosborne7634
      @jrosborne7634 6 місяців тому +1

      Nothing but funky shaped rocks
      He’s obviously trying to and in fact has convinced himself these were native
      Everything on this table is a (jar) just a rock

    • @DonnyF-mu6ff
      @DonnyF-mu6ff 4 місяці тому

      They are borderline retarded with the downtalk. There are millions identical in museums nation and WORLDWIDE...so go find your gay CLOVIS POINTS.

  • @harleyrider6633
    @harleyrider6633 6 років тому +9

    Just a bunch of rocks, I didn't see any flaking marks on any of them... jmo

    • @dr.staceyashley5122
      @dr.staceyashley5122 6 років тому

      Ashley

    • @tallygator2436
      @tallygator2436 4 роки тому +1

      harley rider66 they where made by peck and grinding method. So no flaking

    • @williambrandondavis6897
      @williambrandondavis6897 4 роки тому

      @@tallygator2436 Tools made using that method have divots and grooves strategically placed to allow the sinew to wrap around the stone in a manner that prevents the head of the tool from slipping off the handle when you swing the tool. Try strapping any of those stones to a handle and see how well that tool works, the heads will fall right off because there are no shoulders to keep the sinew from sliding off the angled shape of the alleged stone tool.

    • @blindingshadow3463
      @blindingshadow3463 4 роки тому

      @@williambrandondavis6897 could you give me your opinion on a few of my finds? I agree with you 100%. And believe most axes were hand held, but I finally found something different, something unique.

  • @slapshot1x
    @slapshot1x 6 років тому +24

    Amazing-many of the "non descript" non typical artifacts I find in west Michigan sites look identical to the ones you found in Idaho. And the sites in Michigan are known occupied sites. I have learned a lot from this channel as I use to only look for items made with chert/flint/obsidian and quartz. Great vids. Thank you for sharing!

    • @georgehays4908
      @georgehays4908 2 роки тому +1

      My wife and I have been arrow head hunting . We have many beautiful artifacts ! Peace , from Cass County MICHIGAN , USA ! Maranatha !

  • @jeffvincent4827
    @jeffvincent4827 Рік тому +2

    great video, some people think that all artifacts are beautiful works of art and always made from flint or quartz , chert , jasper. fact is life was not easy especially if they lived in a region where those types stone did not exist.. they used whatever they could find and would make tools and point out of and they would do this very quickly and would make many of them. they can look like just natural stone to the uninformed, uneducated and they closed minded people that think all indians were proud stone smiths that walk the planet with their heads high and carried an arsenal of perfectly made Flint arrowheads and tools.. there were some amazing craftsman no doubt but also there were people on the verge of starvation and lived as savages.. I have a collection of around 2000 artifacts that are made from all different types of stone, every type of stone in my

    • @mrdark9916
      @mrdark9916 Рік тому +1

      Yeah but you can't deny that several of these are obvious Geofacts. Lol
      I do see a couple pieces actually show some promise and I'd probably take home and look at them. But the rest of them are nothin lol

    • @jeffvincent4827
      @jeffvincent4827 Рік тому

      Of course, some stones will look like an artifact but may not be, I won't argue that at all.. I guess what I'm really trying to say is that mainstream archeology has been proven to be all wrong..

  • @lesjones5684
    @lesjones5684 Місяць тому +1

    Bones and notches 😂😂😂

  • @bigbo1865
    @bigbo1865 5 років тому +4

    The only thing I disagree with is the characterization of some the "hafted" pieces. I'm not convinced of hafting
    There is no doubt as to them being artifacts dont get me wrong but mostly hand held as opposed to hafted artifacts.🤔

    • @suzannejackson3810
      @suzannejackson3810 Рік тому

      what does hafted even mean? aren't there more than one ways to reach the same result?

  • @gypsyrosegypsyrose2531
    @gypsyrosegypsyrose2531 5 років тому +11

    thank you for your interesting video. sorry so many rude people commented.

  • @rodneygreenway982
    @rodneygreenway982 4 роки тому +8

    I'm trying to get into artifact collecting...but 90% of the time, I'm looking at a strange rock, holding it and trying to envision it's use, but I'm always questioning if it's natural. How do you know?

    • @roscoep.coltraine6344
      @roscoep.coltraine6344 3 роки тому

      💩 4 🧠's

    • @Jason1975ism
      @Jason1975ism 2 місяці тому

      @@rodneygreenway982 they don't know and I feel this video is inappropriate because of the misinformation. These aren't artifacts. When you find a tool you'll know it immediately. They are unambiguous. Even a plain rock that's used to shape other tools has distinct pock marks and wear that is indicative and impossible to mistake for natural erosion. When you find a flint or hard stone tool you'll instantly get goosebumps.

  • @johnrose4548
    @johnrose4548 7 років тому +3

    hahahahahahahahahah

  • @jacobbradenbaugh2035
    @jacobbradenbaugh2035 5 років тому +4

    Nun of those are artifacts at all educat ur self smfhhhh

  • @CLCinflorida
    @CLCinflorida 3 роки тому +2

    MAY THE DROPPINGS OF A THOUSAND BIRDS FALL UPON THE HEADS OF THOSE THAT 👎 DOWN THIS VIDEO.

  • @officiallilhippy
    @officiallilhippy 7 років тому +14

    when native Americans done something, they done it RIGHT!...I think them are just earth formed rocks Sir

    • @RightWingCon81
      @RightWingCon81 5 років тому +1

      official.lil.hippy yeah, all native Americans made super refined tools. They never did anything half assed. They were a perfect people. Clown.

    • @kennethcochran1339
      @kennethcochran1339 4 роки тому +2

      you are right

    • @ericschmuecker348
      @ericschmuecker348 3 роки тому

      @@johnnyhighwoods1780 You need to do the research. Good God you Fucking Prick!

  • @l.d.a.2987
    @l.d.a.2987 2 роки тому +1

    They are all birds. Jesus.

  • @artifactman660
    @artifactman660 6 років тому +12

    Research you've done? LMAO!!!

    • @jacobbradenbaugh2035
      @jacobbradenbaugh2035 5 років тому +3

      This guy is a fucking idiot none of these are artifacts aka geofact is more like it

    • @Guttergirl61
      @Guttergirl61 2 роки тому

      Idiot

  • @cupsoflove1245
    @cupsoflove1245 3 роки тому +10

    I'm so glad these are "just rocks" as per comments ..thus we can collect to our hearts content and not disturb artifacts right 😉

  • @erichbrewer6403
    @erichbrewer6403 3 роки тому +5

    These are just rocks. Show them to your state archaeology office and they will confirm this. I can go to a creek and find thousands of rocks.

    • @GoBrewers69
      @GoBrewers69 Місяць тому

      You’re such an expert, ever thought of being an archaeologist?

  • @briankennedy5578
    @briankennedy5578 6 років тому +8

    Those are just rocks. Nature did all the creating

    • @josefizquierdo6139
      @josefizquierdo6139 3 роки тому +2

      They're just rocks...but carved by ancient men.

    • @briankennedy5578
      @briankennedy5578 3 роки тому +2

      @@josefizquierdo6139 A couple of them may have been. Some of them are just rocks. Like the first one he shows. Looks just like a common piece of shale. It naturally breaks off making shapes just like that. They start off with sharp jagged edges. Then after being subject to water and tumbling around they get rounded and smooth. I could go outside right now and find several rocks similar to the ones he showed. I could even find them in places where it would be evident that tfty were natural.

    • @briankennedy5578
      @briankennedy5578 3 роки тому

      Hell ive got a rock that looks just like a snickers bar. Color and all.

    • @grymm13th
      @grymm13th 2 роки тому

      You know how much information about ancient civilizations is covered up? Especially since the us government would have to give back all the Indian land if they could prove that it was theirs?

  • @richardmills6084
    @richardmills6084 6 років тому +4

    Wow, tuff crowd. Im not sure what these are , man made or natural but give the guy a break.

  • @madisoneclectic3101
    @madisoneclectic3101 2 роки тому +1

    These are actually Leaverites and Ohyeahrites.

  • @AG-cs7px
    @AG-cs7px 8 років тому +4

    What is "volcanic slate". Believe what you want to believe but keep it to yourself.

  • @BM205
    @BM205 5 років тому +10

    You sir have ALOT to learn,it's just a shame some people will believe your nonsense.

  • @NomadicAdventuresEst2010
    @NomadicAdventuresEst2010 6 років тому +12

    are you serious 😄 a couple people on here told you real nice like, you have nothing but regular rocks, no Prehistoric Stone Tools, just rocks bro, have you ever read any books? are you just bummed, you can't find any real one's? you need to educate yourself some, apparently you haven't at all, not trying to be mean, just serious, then some of the other people on here believe you & from your experience. experience at what? thinking regular rocks are stone age tools, come on bro, go watch some real Artifact finding

    • @TheDesertwalker
      @TheDesertwalker 6 років тому

      Brooksy knows the real stuff. Shira has a box of rocks, nothing more.

    • @scottlund4562
      @scottlund4562 6 років тому +1

      The first example he is showing could very well be altered, that is EXACTLY the fracture scarring on certain FCR's which were tossed un-roasted into a thick layer of very hot coals. Depending on the internal grain structure, that edge will score around an antler for breaking accurately with no skipping and do it quickly...or on a shaft, two swipes to make clean point setting scores on a shaft. What is nice, is that just one football shaped rock will plane fracture into about 5 or 6 pieces like that one in Will's hand.

    • @jondavis5008
      @jondavis5008 6 років тому

      Nomadic Adventures all right all u think u know about artifacts well I'm going to put my collection out there for every one to see the more than 3 theory if u find more than 3 that are all most identical well Mother Nature doesn't mass produce artifacts so all u think u no it all I'm going to blow your minds with what my grandpa picked up along the gravel bars on the Columbia river he told me someday and I'd no when the time was right to show his collection and after reading a bunch of u think u know what's what we'll I'm going to school all of u because I know more about stone artifacts than all of u that think u know what your talking about !!! So get ready I'm going to start posting pictures and they were all surface found my grandpa never dug up any thing so get ready cause I'm going to blow your minds

    • @scottlund4562
      @scottlund4562 6 років тому

      Nomadic, here is a fairly close FCR example to Will's piece from a blacksmith forge building video I just watched, ua-cam.com/video/m-R6iY-mY-Y/v-deo.html Skip to 07:05 and I hope you can see and embrace there are other types of modification other than just our modern paradigm of percussion, pecking, and grinding. Obviously, each type of stone has it's own thermal fracture habit, and for me it has been a blast figuring out what works and what is repeatable. Caution though if you give it a go, many stones will pop violently and having kids around the campfire while doing this is dangerous. (I have had a BB size fragment pop off and embed into my forearm...40 years later and the scar is still there)

    • @williambever3077
      @williambever3077 5 років тому

      Brooksy and his cronie Richardsrockhouse do this for one reason and one reason only MONEY. Hell they have price tags on before they even get them in the house. Arrowheads are the most common artifact there are. With out the "DOPE" how do you study a point for hours."his words" ask the Great Spirit for more education Brooksy that is what you need. Shira might have the uses wrong but who really knows, NOBODY. and surely not Mike Brooks.

  • @rodhougenz
    @rodhougenz 3 роки тому +2

    I've seen a pair of vice grips used as a hammer.

  • @jonnyochowa7609
    @jonnyochowa7609 14 днів тому

    Very nice.
    Some people cant see the tool marks..and lack any imagination whatsoever.

  • @smc82575
    @smc82575 4 роки тому +2

    What you have there.....is a whole bunch of nothing! I can't believe you brought all those home. 🤣. You gotta stop taking peyote before you go out bro.

  • @happyhomelesshomesteaders158
    @happyhomelesshomesteaders158 5 років тому +3

    Thank you William, we have found a few of those, and probably threw many pieces back down frown😞👀

  • @buddesatva
    @buddesatva 9 років тому +10

    Slate is a metamorphosed sedimentary rock, not volcanic (igneous).

    • @tomb306
      @tomb306 8 років тому

      What's not difficult?

  • @cryss_cross_curry
    @cryss_cross_curry Місяць тому

    Thank you for sharing. I wish there was more information about these more "crude" artifacts. Youve inspirwd me to start my own channel and document mine.

  • @mikewhorleyjr3892
    @mikewhorleyjr3892 5 років тому +5

    Nice video but these are common creek rocks...good luck though

  • @deranged248
    @deranged248 7 років тому +9

    lol nice rocks bro

  • @josefizquierdo6139
    @josefizquierdo6139 3 роки тому +11

    Your collection of ancient artifacts in this video are impressively "all geometric with faces & edges." An inexperienced or uninterested person would believe that they're "just rocks," but what they don't know or realize is that these magnificent carved, ground, & shaped rocks were specifically formed that way for a variety of purposes, like cutting...hammering...starting fires...cooking...hunting...etc. Also, these unique ancient tools are usually found in common places where other types of relics or evidence can be found, usually around or close to natural bodies of water, ...like rivers, lakes, and ponds. Furthermore, many of these artifacts are "'incomplete, broken, or worn out" because of their age, their prior usage, or for other natural reasons, ...like erosion. Finally, not all ancient tools were just "arrowheads or weapons," either. Different tools had different functions or purposes, just like today's modern tools do. ⚙️🔧⛏️

    • @philmaida9997
      @philmaida9997 2 роки тому +2

      There is no indication of and work by man on these tho

    • @joeywitt6491
      @joeywitt6491 2 роки тому +1

      Wrong. Every rock he has are Natural formations.

  • @lifeineffort
    @lifeineffort Рік тому +1

    not interested

  • @lifeineffort
    @lifeineffort Рік тому +1

    bad video

  • @maartenperdeck798
    @maartenperdeck798 3 роки тому +1

    natural stones

  • @vallll6658
    @vallll6658 7 років тому +8

    SO WHAT I'VE NOTICED is that on like all the videos or forums i have found with great artifacts there's ALWAYS A BUNCH OF TROLLS commenting that what we're looking at are not artifacts and worth nothing. Never seen any other topic that is shit on as much! Great work and thank you. The info is greatly appreciated.

    • @matthewdarnell4654
      @matthewdarnell4654 7 років тому +4

      Val Loudfoot people only seem to be interested in spear points. half these "arrow head hunters" don't even realize they're hunting knives mostly.

    • @ericschmuecker348
      @ericschmuecker348 3 роки тому +1

      Idiot!

    • @Dougarrowhead
      @Dougarrowhead 2 роки тому

      These arent artifacts. This guy william belongs in a loony tune asylum.

    • @jaypercival431
      @jaypercival431 6 місяців тому +1

      Sorry but these "rocks" aren't worth trolling. Glue residue after 1000's years? Unbelievable. SMDH

    • @FarginIceholeful
      @FarginIceholeful 2 місяці тому

      @@jaypercival431 I have several hammer stones and abraders with resin and sand, like sandpaper on them. But they are only about 750-1,200 years old.
      Tell me, where abouts do you live? I live in southern Utah where broken points and stone tools litter the ground and there are ruins and petroglyph, every 500 feet.

  • @crazyhorse9378
    @crazyhorse9378 7 років тому +10

    not trying to be mean but do some research I've been hunting arrowheads for a long time and tools of the Native Americans and these are not Native American artifacts find Camp Rocks find fire Stones find flint chips then find your points hi Rich tops feeder Creek's feeding the main creeks then feeding the rivers like I said Camp Rocks Flint chips points

    • @erikakoons5691
      @erikakoons5691 5 років тому +1

      @athena icaria ❤❤❤

    • @jasonbuckman7298
      @jasonbuckman7298 3 роки тому +2

      Well that's because your a ARROW hunter. These tools styles where used by paleoIndians who did not shot arrows. But used spears and pecked and ground. Start to read more. Instead of replaying your algorithmic idiocracy.

    • @nox7282
      @nox7282 Рік тому +1

      @@jasonbuckman7298 His comment says “and tools of the Native Americans”. Did you miss that? You were typing so fast to try to prove your “intelligence” and defend falsehood that you didn’t even comprehend what the original comment says

  • @dschack100
    @dschack100 5 років тому +5

    I think this guy has been doing too much grinding and pecking...

  • @rangernation4538
    @rangernation4538 5 років тому +7

    99.99999% off your colocation are not artifacts none have any use markes or hafting markes all they had where natural ware.

  • @Guttergirl61
    @Guttergirl61 2 роки тому +2

    Beautiful pieces! Thanks for sharing!

  • @williamcrawford7982
    @williamcrawford7982 3 роки тому +1

    No door stops.

  • @edierosenberg4777
    @edierosenberg4777 3 роки тому +1

    Can you please contact me? I live close to Coloma ca. And have interesting rocks.

  • @joekuhl3500
    @joekuhl3500 4 роки тому +1

    nattys..

  • @brightmanonfire
    @brightmanonfire 9 років тому +15

    I've been collecting artifacts since I was a kid-in Florida, Massachusettes and California. I know what to look for. I hate to break it to you but NONE of the rocks pictured look like they have been worked. The tell tale signs are not there. Check out some museums to see what you are looking for.

    • @hansenator5000
      @hansenator5000 9 років тому

      what part of CA?

    • @MedicalSkillsTraining
      @MedicalSkillsTraining 6 років тому

      brightmanonfire you are a fucking idiot.

    • @ADITADDICTS
      @ADITADDICTS 5 років тому

      I've been collecting rocks from N. California going on 20 years now and I've found some perfect and polished pieces and I've found some that to an untrained eye WOULD look like ordinary river rock. Look for the diamond in the rough.

    • @ADITADDICTS
      @ADITADDICTS 5 років тому

      @athena icaria thank you!

    • @ADITADDICTS
      @ADITADDICTS 5 років тому +1

      @Ryan Ross Absolutely, same over here as well. Most tools, plummets and charmstones ( God I hate that name but grooved rocks some say net weights etc ) are found in rice fields in very black dirt, almost a clay, due to it being a giant swamp/river drain.
      Before that it was an inland sea ( Sacramento valley-butte sink ). The really nice pieces are usually attributed to burials, and the rougher pieces to hunting and fishing locations. Although different time periods are also a factor.

  • @doesthatstink4734
    @doesthatstink4734 6 років тому +3

    Leaver rights

  • @unknownuser2737
    @unknownuser2737 2 роки тому +4

    We have a saying that we say in the artifact collecting community. If you have to defend it don't own it! They should speak for themselves just looking at them. This rule also is used for any type of a collectible Hobby

  • @gilmangus83
    @gilmangus83 3 роки тому +2

    You've identified some pieces I have but could not figure its use. The adz is an example.
    Well done! Thanks!

  • @skunkape2
    @skunkape2 9 років тому +13

    Please learn what actual artifacts are. These are rocks. It is very frustrating to find so much misinformation on the net in regards to Native American artifacts, especially the fool with the portable rock "art" site. A person tries to search for images of actual rock art and Mr. Portable Rock "Art's" images dominate the images. STOP the miseducation.

    • @WilliamShira
      @WilliamShira  9 років тому +5

      +skunkape2 There are thousands of different ancient cultures being studied. One culture being studied is broken down into many specific studies within that culture. One archeologist will specialize in one of those specific studies for his or her lifetime. The Civil War, for example, is broken down into battles. One battle will be broken down into separate studies like artillery, calvary, infantry, North and South. There are archeologists that are experts in artillery but not in calvary etc... Just because you are an expert in Native American arrowheads and other common Native American artifacts dose not mean other artifacts do not exist. To jump so quickly to conclusions, not only to conclude by watching a video that they are just rocks, but also to assume that someone has put as little thought and study into it as you do.

    • @AccentMasonryLLC
      @AccentMasonryLLC 8 років тому +2

      +skunkape2 LoL I lay stone like these on walls daily, must say there are tons of natural stone axeheads out there. I guess it's up to the person to believe what they want to believe.

    • @winstonshelton3237
      @winstonshelton3237 7 років тому

      I think that funny to hear a Mason say that! they're was an old man with a HUGE collection of Indian Grind stones, "big dished out rocks, for grinding corn, wheat nuts" this old man had a stone mason build him a chimney out of them! to bad when he came home the stone mason faced all the dished stones inwards!! had to tear down the whole chimney & start again! the mason was just told they were Indian grind stones haha

    • @Joseluisyourface
      @Joseluisyourface 7 років тому

      This dude is on point. These are most likely early Anasazi pit dweller tools. 10 bucks these are from the south west.

    • @jimmorgan8688
      @jimmorgan8688 6 років тому

      skunkape2
      Yes these are rocks, rocks that have been shaped.

  • @lkj2129
    @lkj2129 8 років тому +7

    I just check out your rock collecting . and thats all it is .all these rocks at some point in time have been fractured to form by mother nature and sometimes her art can be deceiving . and this is one of them times. so stop trying to pass it as native American tools.

  • @joeywitt6491
    @joeywitt6491 2 роки тому +3

    Before you make educational videos, ide suggest learning the difference between worked and naturally formed rocks.

  • @stikaeric4301
    @stikaeric4301 7 місяців тому

    It seems many archaeologists and laymen are fixated with arrowheads and knapped tools because they are pretty and sexy. What tools did early man make? First it depends what kind of rocks people had locally to work with. Second --many archaelogists are now saying man was in north America earlier than we realized--some say man has been here 20,000 years or more. Clovis culture is about 11,500BCE.(13,000 years ago). Also humans had many tasks beside just hunting with points and needed many tools to do them and those tools have not gotten as much attention as sexy points. Also if a native man or woman found a rock that looked like it would be a good tool it might not need much work to make it useful. Also some archaelogists ahve noted the more refined tools are not found as much east of the Appalachian mountains so there was obiously some people here before clovis man got here. Context matters, local material matters and rock showing some work matters. So these tools in the video should not be dismissed out of hand.

  • @SLArtifacts
    @SLArtifacts 3 роки тому +9

    All of these appear to be natural. Hard stone artifacts are a real thing, but it doesn’t appear there are any in this collection. Pecking and grinding do not look like that. Keep looking!

    • @mrdark9916
      @mrdark9916 Рік тому +2

      For god sakes, finally someone who agrees lolol
      I have some nice hard stone and pecked/ground stuff.
      But I see only 1 or 2 pieces here that I would even bother taking home to examine further lol a lot look natural

  • @chuckjones9939
    @chuckjones9939 4 роки тому +4

    You should take those to an artifact show and let the people who have handled true artifacts evaluate them. Once you have seen and handled actual human made artifacts, you will never think that any of those rocks have been modified by humans.

  • @francismarcoux8944
    @francismarcoux8944 4 роки тому +1

    I would say only a few couldb be something

  • @bigbo1865
    @bigbo1865 5 років тому +5

    Your spot on about them being used as all purpose tools. People want to subscribe only one use all to often when in fact they were swiss army knives for lack of a better term.

  • @nodepubgm
    @nodepubgm 4 роки тому +1

    A stone Adze was used for wood not stone. And not to seem rude but I don’t think you know much about ancient tools. Before you make any videos on stuff like this please RESEARCH!

    • @rodhougenz
      @rodhougenz 3 роки тому

      I've seen a pair of vise grips used as a hammer.

  • @cryss_cross_curry
    @cryss_cross_curry Місяць тому

    The artifact at 6:38 has a clear and distinct face on it. Undeniable and certainly artificial, I don't care what anybody says to the contrary.

    • @EvilSkeltos
      @EvilSkeltos 22 дні тому

      I agree, I think it's apparently a grinding stone tool used for mashing grains like corn possibly...? I'm just trying to search for a method for identifying native American limestone tools... I guess they were crafting edged blades used for hunting or battle. Along with tools for preparation in butchering animals or harvested agricultural resources. I know porus stone splits and weather's naturally though so I guess they mean there needs to be a clear sign of either symmetrical design or weathering from deliberate uses that purposefully align with each tools intended uses...?

  • @-CBA-
    @-CBA- 2 роки тому

    You must watch the video I just posted

  • @johnanderson7925
    @johnanderson7925 Рік тому +4

    Not artifacts at all.

  • @scottkraft1062
    @scottkraft1062 4 роки тому +1

    Thinks for sharing your collection I found a stone axe in Florida 400 miles away

  • @Dougarrowhead
    @Dougarrowhead 2 роки тому

    You should put em on ebay and get rich.

  • @thomasw5879
    @thomasw5879 6 років тому +3

    TRASH!!!! LMAO

  • @lesjones5684
    @lesjones5684 Місяць тому

    River rocks 🪨 😅😅😅😅

  • @John-wh3re
    @John-wh3re 3 місяці тому

    Good job great artifacts

  • @lesjones5684
    @lesjones5684 Місяць тому

    River rocks 🪨 😂😂😂

  • @jmejnovotney8942
    @jmejnovotney8942 5 років тому +11

    People assume all Native American artifacts have to look like arrowheads & have points, which they don't. You definitely have a few nice tool artifacts!

    • @zacharynugent83
      @zacharynugent83 3 роки тому

      @Belinda Belinda Baits Bray cool that’s not what he said

    • @indoril9489
      @indoril9489 3 роки тому +1

      Hey that's not archaeology

    • @joeywitt6491
      @joeywitt6491 2 роки тому +2

      Where is artifacts. All i see is plain ole run of the mill naturally formed ROCKS. Quit misleading beginning collector/hunters.

  • @davidwilliamson4937
    @davidwilliamson4937 4 місяці тому

    Scroll on by. Nonsense.

  • @buffarow
    @buffarow 9 років тому +18

    Dude, what you have there are geofacts, not artifacts. You need to get educated on the real deal. Nice try though.

    • @kenziekae3741
      @kenziekae3741 8 років тому +5

      +Steve Row Geofacts are just a word given to rocks that might (because no one can know for sure since no of us were there when it happened) have been formed through the glacial movements causing what would appear to be strike marks from the scratching of the rocks upon other rocks. This type of movement cannot form round, smooth edges such as those shown in the rocks this man is kindly displaying in this video. A lot of times Native Americans found rocks that would be naturally easy to handle (because rock is, after all, naturally formed in many shapes), and then formed them to better fit their hands (depending on what they were intending them to be used for -grinding, cutting, ect.) by different methods such as the peck and grind method. I myself, have found on my property which was an old camp, many, many, many rocks that are similar in shape so it's very unlikely that through coincidence, that all of them formed naturally like this.

    • @buffarow
      @buffarow 7 років тому +1

      Better than being MACHO FAKE! Still, just a bunch of rocks.

    • @traviskalchik3429
      @traviskalchik3429 7 років тому +1

      sorry guys and gals Steve has no imagination

    • @buffarow
      @buffarow 7 років тому +4

      Thats right, these so called tools are just in your imagination!

    • @traviskalchik3429
      @traviskalchik3429 7 років тому

      damn hes good =-P

  • @shanedurrance
    @shanedurrance 8 років тому +2

    hmmmmmmmm.....................

  • @reubenpugliese234
    @reubenpugliese234 4 роки тому +1

    I have 2 stones that might be tools.... would you be able to know what they are or aren’t

  • @scottlund4562
    @scottlund4562 6 років тому +3

    1st example could be an FCR type of modification (fire cracked rock) A close example showing similar features can be seen at 07:05 of this blacksmith forge building video: ua-cam.com/video/m-R6iY-mY-Y/v-deo.html Percussion, pecking, and grinding are not the only methods of purposeful alteration and reduction.

  • @cupsoflove1245
    @cupsoflove1245 3 роки тому +1

    Lovely . I'm finding tons if these in New Mexico.

    • @bty1471
      @bty1471 Рік тому +1

      Bet you do. They are just rocks there everywhere

  • @bobbymcdowell9694
    @bobbymcdowell9694 5 років тому +1

    Nice. 🏹

  • @aaronlambet6944
    @aaronlambet6944 9 років тому +9

    There isnt one "artifact" that i can see in this video. Everything you just said was a complete joke. Read yourself a overstreet book if you even know what that is

  • @rupeshpal4470
    @rupeshpal4470 Рік тому +1

    Nice

  • @ShubhamKumar-eb9ij
    @ShubhamKumar-eb9ij 6 років тому +1

    Gad

  • @Don-fj3ew
    @Don-fj3ew Рік тому

    I found many with markings being triangular carved markings and cuniform like markings as well as stick like figure carvings of men and animals. On facebook i posted few and people just were ignorant unless i posted my knapped heads

  • @christinagehret
    @christinagehret 2 роки тому

    Hi sir my name is Shawn I have a bunch of Indian tools and rock carvings also and I'm just learning I'm very interested in old stuff always have. I got some cool stuff I like to show you if you could get back to me be very thankful I love that my area has alot of this ancient old stuff. Sometimes I think that there were started than alot of ppl nowadays lol. But please if you get time get a hold of me mean alot and you really know your stuff watched all your videos.

  • @bambiw9665
    @bambiw9665 Рік тому

    Can you see the pictorial images in some of you artifacts?I've been collecting so many interesting pieces in oregon just inland of the coast from Lincoln city to eugene some Salem I lived upper part of Idaho and believe I found pre ice age artifacts crazy !