Finding Prehistoric Artifacts In The High Desert - Obsidian Everywhere
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- Опубликовано: 24 июн 2024
- Enroute to a desert spring I wanted to explore around, I noticed an interesting land feature. It was a long rock outcropping that ran parallel with a wide creek bed and it ran North/South for some distance.
I figured that would've been a good place to hang out a long time ago, higher up on stable ground above a possible running creek. I'm looking at this area at a time when things were a little different, wetter and cooler...not the dry desert it is today.
Anyway, I headed up to explore the area and I was quite amazed at what I found. Everywhere I walked, for a least a quarter mile, was covered in lithic debris from mass tool production. It had to have been on huge scale, well..large enough to be very impressive in prehistoric times. There was so much debris that I felt this area must have been a tool production hub. The finished products used as currency for other goods, trade, ornaments, food, etc. There was so much that I figured it was something more than just a seasonal hunting camp used for generations. Although, maybe it's all the above!
So join me as I head out into the desert to discover what once was...
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1st comment on a sweet channel! Just love the exploration and artifacts!
Another great episode 👍🏻. It’s neat to imagine hundreds of ancient people in that one area working obsidian. I hope your truck made it out of there 🤞🏻
Impressive discovery of a quite large ancient village or seasonal camp site(s). This venture's highlights are definitely your locating the very remarkable plethora of obsidian tool remnants, axe head, huge scraper, knife blade(s) and butchering flakes. Awesome adventure! Thanks and I hope your truck was repairable. Adios!
Following the water, amazing what’s waiting 😎😎😎
It's so beautiful there. Some of those pieces were just amazing. Wow!
Very cool!
Couple of things I see here.
It’s likely you are correct, that there was manufacturing there.
I worked on a project similar to this, and was explained this way.
That you are near a lithium source, obsidian would’ve been broken down to smaller transportable pieces to be worked elsewhere.
Probably for trade also.
This big ace pieces could be “blanks”, which are also made then carried elsewhere.
The first big piece you found was the tell for me, with the percussion bulb on that piece.
A lot of theses were started, then flaws caused fractures etc, as well as inclusions that cause breakage.
Obsidian is cool stuff.
A man I knew back in Camp Verde Az, who knapped, made surgical blades for his heart surgery. Wounds healed in just a couple weeks.
So the Old Ones knew this this too.
Excellent D-Rock!
What an awesome adventure! Thanks for sharing 😊 glad you made it out of there safely with those truck issues!
Could be an axe, it does look like it. The little white stone could be a decoration from a dress, shirt, skirt, cradle board, blanket?
I think that mite have been a quarry because those pieces were percussion chipped then would take them back to a camp and presser flake them to a Finnished product
Aww we need your vehicle in good condition so that you can make these awesome videos.
Great to be included in your discoveries, very enjoyable. Is your dog familiar and careful with snakes?
Yes, she is snake trained but we still have encounters.
Scrapers used on hides? What were scrapers used for do you think. Thanks.
Alot of those broken in half bifaces were broke in production.
You find obsidian all the time. Obsidian is volcanic glass so where does it a come from? I love your videos
The mountain at the end of the video has to be the obsidian source. Hope your truck is ok.
Where is the obsidian source? I definitely think this was hunting ground. But, in Arizona you can see walls still sticking up in areas of settlement. I just think, you need a new tip, you make one from your bag of obsidian you bought with you on the hunt. I'm not seeing the ancient water source for settlement.
Sure looks like an axe