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    It would be neat to see all the fossil stuff others have found while digging prehistoric camps and middens. This was touched on a few weeks ago on a sister forum, and this may be worth revisiting.
    You know if you thought it was cool and worth saving, someone who occupied that ground thousands of years ago probably thought the same thing. Maybe they carried it back to camp from a hunt, or a raiding party, to share with others in their family or clan. Maybe fossils were reveered with wonder or with religous significance. Who knows, but it was there for you to find in context with artifacts milennia later. Thanks, lets see what fossils and fossilized stuff was found in direct relationship to habitation sites. Lone Star

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    I don't have pictures of them, but we find fossil shark's teeth, sometimes drilled.  We also find manatee rib bones, fossilized as well as some other Pleistocene fossils like horse teeth.  We find these in habitation areas/ on middens.  Around here if one digs a few feet, especially along the gulf and bays, you start hitting fossil bone.  so they didn't have to trade or carry the kinds of fossils we find on sites.
    And of course we have baybottom chert and agatized coral, both are fossil rocks that were used to make tools and projectiles.
    Professor Shellman
    Tampa Bay

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