Great artifact find!

[Quillback]

Here is my one piece of petrified wood.  Washington state, there's quite a bit of it in the old lava flow land where I used to chukar hunt.  Used to be quite a few trunks standing, but they were dug up and moved to people houses for lawn ornaments.  There was one stump that was maybe 20 feet high that was left, we used to use it as a landmark chukar hunting,  we'll go down the draw to the right, you guys go down the one to the left and we'll meet at the tree.  

Washington geology is pretty interesting and due to the nature of the terrain you can still easily see the effects of lava flows, glaciers, and the Missoula flood.  

Columbia River Basalt Group - Wikipedia

[Quillback]

Neat fossils Marty - any idea on the fish species?

[Johnsfolly]

33 minutes ago, Quillback said:

Yeah who knows, might be burying his dead cat.

Coyotes do a great job of not leaving any traces of a dead cat. No reason to bury one. At least that's what I have heard....😉

[BilletHead]

2 hours ago, Quillback said:

Neat fossils Marty - any idea on the fish species?

             I'm not sure or don't remember. We had a bunch of information from out there, but I have no idea where it is. I will blame that on Pat, I set something down and it gets moved and I cannot find it.  

[Nick Adams]

9 hours ago, BilletHead said:

are you a teacher?"

I am an English teacher, but I could give them to my Science department, after I'm done admiring them. Fossils absolute amaze me. In the Springfield area, you can't hardly pick up a rock without finding at crinoid fossil. I could look for hours!

[BilletHead]

1 minute ago, Nick Adams said:

I am an English teacher, but I could give them to my Science department, after I'm done admiring them. Fossils absolute amaze me. In the Springfield area, you can't hardly pick up a rock without finding at crinoid fossil. I could look for hours!

             Then they are yours Nick to do what you want with them! Yea!

[Al Agnew]

Out here on the Yellowstone River, we've really gotten into finding petrified wood.  It's pretty common on the bars on the Yellowstone, mostly really worn and rounded, pieces from marble size to as big as a loaf of bread.  We've tumbled a few pieces in our rock tumbler.  In 2020, since we couldn't do a whole lot of other things, we spent a lot of time roaming the bars along the river looking for it.  But a lot of other people were looking for it, too, and we didn't get high enough water last spring to move the rocks around and expose more petrified wood, so last year wasn't nearly as productive.

Here are most of our petrified wood finds from 2020.

[T.J. Clarke]

One of you mentioned the Solutrean culture from ancient France and Spain.   A great book on the topic is "Across Atlantic Ice, The Origin of America's Clovis Culture". Controversial when it came out, since it went against the Asian land bridge crossing dogma. 

[MOFishwater]

anyone able to provide any info on this one? Found in a creek in JeffCo by a friend. Assuming a bird or fish point of some sort? Many thanks in advance. 

 

Pic of the find

 

 

[fishinwrench]

What, exactly, are what artifact hunters call "bird points"?

Please don't tell me that ancient man made tiny little arrows to shoot at birds..... because that would be ridiculous.  There are way easier methods to catch & kill a bird than flinging cute little miniature arrows at them.

I always suspected that those itty-bitty 5 pointers were made by modern crackheads, as jewelry or something.