Native American Artifacts

[Nine Banger]

Heres a cache blade from Florida.

Chert is rare in SC but looks cool. Referencing the knife.

Vertebra is from coastal SC. Pulled it out because Im curious: do western dudes get fossils like we do east of Mississippi?

Where I live now on the coast we get lots of mammal bones and shark stuff. When I was kid in Ohio it was all trilobites and limestone fossils. Everything rots here and the soil is ocean bottom so we don't get many artifacts until you go inland. I have a pottery shard around here somewhere.

 

[Nine Banger]

Coastal SC

 

[Dab65]

Harmless nostalgia on the surface, but this is a bad idea in practice. Digging up or hoarding artifacts especially from public lands is often illegal, destroys context for real archaeology, and strips cultural heritage. Report legit finds to professionals instead of treating them like cool grandpa trinkets. Preserve the actual history, don't loot it.

 

[Dab65]

Harmless nostalgia on the surface, but this is a bad idea in practice. Digging up or hoarding artifacts especially from public lands is often illegal, destroys context for real archaeology, and strips cultural heritage. Report legit finds to professionals instead of treating them like cool grandpa trinkets. Preserve the actual history, don't loot it.

 

[Slickhill]

Sure, report those finds to the real experts. So they can come dig up your place and declare it an archeological site of significance to limit what you can do on your own property. But don’t worry all those cool artifacts they dig up will be safely stashed away in the store room of a university somewhere away from the light of day forever so that no normal person can ever see or enjoy them.

Seen it happen. Know the farm owners who had to stop plowing one of their fields indefinitely. No thanks

 

[2531usmc]

Sure, report those finds to the real experts. So they can come dig up your place and declare it an archeological site of significance to limit what you can do on your own property. But don’t worry all those cool artifacts they dig up will be safely stashed away in the store room of a university somewhere away from the light of day forever so that no normal person can ever see or enjoy them.

Seen it happen. Know the farm owners who had to stop plowing one of their fields indefinitely. No thanks

And the landowner has absolutely no say…..