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Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 5:19 am
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Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 6:09 am
Possible PreClovis quadriface- Ventral View- 8.5"- hounslow
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 6:33 am
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Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 7:50 am
Looks like a candidate for the Dead Parrot Sketch, Charlie!
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 8:09 am
Charlie, I really enjoy your posts, it's nice to see someone so enthusiastic. Personally I am hoping for the earliest dates to be proven as fact. That said, I don't know nothin' bout rocks. It is a sad fact, but a rock looks like a rock to me. Some are prettier than others. I am afraid that if I tripped over a Pre-clovis point...I'd just cut my foot. 
Now all ya'll don't make fun of me or try and teach me about rocks.(My Grandpa nearly had an apoplexy when I couldn't tell which tribe made which arrowhead even after he explained the differences to me) I have nothing practical to contribute, so will keep my mouth shut hereafter. Just wanted you to know I was rootin' for ya.
On a sidebar, has anyone else checked out the website for our latest UK member, Manystones? There are pictures of possible Paleolithic rock art.
http://www.palaeolithicart.co.uk/
Now all ya'll don't make fun of me or try and teach me about rocks.(My Grandpa nearly had an apoplexy when I couldn't tell which tribe made which arrowhead even after he explained the differences to me) I have nothing practical to contribute, so will keep my mouth shut hereafter. Just wanted you to know I was rootin' for ya.On a sidebar, has anyone else checked out the website for our latest UK member, Manystones? There are pictures of possible Paleolithic rock art.
http://www.palaeolithicart.co.uk/
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 9:28 am
You know what, Star? I used to have the same feeling about Charlie's rocks but after a while you can start to see where an edge has been worked by man and where nature has done its work alone.
Solutrean Point.
After a while you can start to see where the knappers have been doing their thing.
Two projectile points, a Clovis (right) and a Folsom (left), excavated from Blackwater Draw.
Solutrean Point.
After a while you can start to see where the knappers have been doing their thing.
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 10:45 am
Okay min, now you're starting to sound like my Grandpa. 
I agree the rocks look worked, but for all I can tell aliens did it
(and I don't believe in them) That was all I meant, I really wouldn't know a pre-Clovis point if it bit me in the a...
Star
I agree the rocks look worked, but for all I can tell aliens did it
(and I don't believe in them) That was all I meant, I really wouldn't know a pre-Clovis point if it bit me in the a... Star
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 11:02 am
I with you on the rocks Starflower. Charlie looks at a rock and may see all kinds of human working on it. I look at the same rock and wonder how many times I could make it skip across a pond.
BUT - the longer you look at them, you start seeing what Charlie is talking about, as Min was saying.
BUT - the longer you look at them, you start seeing what Charlie is talking about, as Min was saying.
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 11:16 am
same thing works with fundementalistsBUT - the longer you look at them, you start seeing what Charlie is talking about
its a basic premise of brain washing
i've been looking at charlies rocks for a long time and all i see is rocks
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 12:46 pm
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Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 12:51 pm
Good ol' Monty..Looks like a candidate for the Dead Parrot Sketch, Charlie!
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 12:53 pm
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Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 1:11 pm
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Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 1:18 pm
like you got rocks in your headMy kids just look at me, and shake their heads
bada boom bada bing
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 4:31 pm
I am willing to believe that a lot of charlies rocks are worked, based on looking over my collection here.
I am sure a geologist will contradict me, but I seems to me that old rocks tend to weather and get smoother over thousands of years, rather than get lots of little nicks along the edges. I mean flint, chert, & other "tooly" rocks.
If they are in running water, they get rounded off, and if they are in the soil, they are pretty much preserved as is
(witness those beautiful clovis and solutrean points posted by Minimalist.)
However, those darn preclovisites didn't seem to have much on the ball, based on the crudeness of their technology.
That tells me that they might be MUCH older than 13000BC.
I am sure a geologist will contradict me, but I seems to me that old rocks tend to weather and get smoother over thousands of years, rather than get lots of little nicks along the edges. I mean flint, chert, & other "tooly" rocks.
If they are in running water, they get rounded off, and if they are in the soil, they are pretty much preserved as is
(witness those beautiful clovis and solutrean points posted by Minimalist.)
However, those darn preclovisites didn't seem to have much on the ball, based on the crudeness of their technology.
That tells me that they might be MUCH older than 13000BC.