Native Americans that is. They did collect fossils. Trilobites in Utah. Crinoid columns for beads where fossil crinoids can be found. And who knows what else. Maybe some of you have found fossils on prehistoric sites that you feel must have been transported to the site by the ancients. Post your examples if you think that is the case.
Fossils were my first love as a collectable. It's close though. I was into stamps, American coins, Roman coins, and arrowheads at a young age. That said, nothing like finding a fossil that is also an artifact to combine two loves in one object. Many years ago, a friend who hunts both artifacts and fossils did just that when he found this notched pendant fashioned from a piece of shale from the Upper Carboniferous Rhode Island Formation. It has a poorly preserved fossil fern, some 300 million years old, and a native clearly took a liking to it. He has to have known it was a fern, but we are left to wonder how he figured its image was on this rock:
Fossils were my first love as a collectable. It's close though. I was into stamps, American coins, Roman coins, and arrowheads at a young age. That said, nothing like finding a fossil that is also an artifact to combine two loves in one object. Many years ago, a friend who hunts both artifacts and fossils did just that when he found this notched pendant fashioned from a piece of shale from the Upper Carboniferous Rhode Island Formation. It has a poorly preserved fossil fern, some 300 million years old, and a native clearly took a liking to it. He has to have known it was a fern, but we are left to wonder how he figured its image was on this rock:
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