All,
For those who are aware of my location I thought to share this which crossed my plate recently and struck an inspiration through recollection. I am fortunate to live in the exact area which is known to have been inhabited for at least 20000 years, fresh water to my East and brackish tidal water to my South and West. I have personally found paleo artifacts that have been dated back many, many millennia and the oldest fossil to date I have found is extinct coral being at least 251 million years old that was delivered here from the recession of the ice caps I was informed. Point being, puns included about points, that I have found hundreds of native points and artifacts from more recent times and continue to be shocked in what I find as my knowledge and interest on various topics from the area grows.
Here is a link from last week around our area of interest since you are reading this and when I saw this I froze and paused. Presented with all the evidence I alone have collected from where I live I undeniably reside in an area that was occupied by previous humans for an extremely long time. It therefore makes logical sense that even before Native Americans took up this spot that others before them lived here as well and left all of their tools along the shoreline for future people to find, me included.
For the last decade I have been walking the beaches around the house and returning home with my small satchel of finds which I then review. Back when I was new to this hobby the only thing I knew to look for were the "supermodel '' points and as everyone knows the "super models" are few and far between among all the other much more "common" items. As time has passed I have been made more aware through discussion, sharing, and reading on what to look for and with that in mind "only if I knew then what I know now." See I do have the ability to go back in time because every single satchel I brought home over those ten years I dumped under my deck because I was too lazy to walk back down to the beach and dump the unknowns. I have wheelbarrow loads of spoils under my deck from that decade of walking and this article inspired me to question what I may have missed. Lest I save you the time and tell you now that I once was very ignorant on this topic and I tossed out *a lot* of relics but yesterday was an eye opener on what exactly I do have here from an archeological stand point, a literal mine field of history dating back many millions of years and everything that occurred over that time. I spent 3 hours yesterday sitting over one wheel barrel load and after sorting the large and medium items I am left with a massive small pile of rock that contains a lot of relics. Within that pile I located an item that is very similar in appearance, flint knapped as well, to what was found from this article linked within. I am no expert on any of this but the experts have visited my location and reviewed several of my finds confirming that they are in fact authentic and very old yet here I am with yet another potential artifact that aligns visually with other documented finds that I too will add to my collection.
This hobby continues to inspire me as one who has been fortunate through hard work to have had vast experiences in life; founding and exiting multiple companies, built several enterprises technology platforms through personally building and architecting all the systems, and having met several "famous" people along the way in all my years of 'success' however I tell you now there is NO OTHER feeling I have ever come across in my life of being the first person in thousands of years to pickup a stone relic which once was the only way to survive.
Stay Healthy!
For those who are aware of my location I thought to share this which crossed my plate recently and struck an inspiration through recollection. I am fortunate to live in the exact area which is known to have been inhabited for at least 20000 years, fresh water to my East and brackish tidal water to my South and West. I have personally found paleo artifacts that have been dated back many, many millennia and the oldest fossil to date I have found is extinct coral being at least 251 million years old that was delivered here from the recession of the ice caps I was informed. Point being, puns included about points, that I have found hundreds of native points and artifacts from more recent times and continue to be shocked in what I find as my knowledge and interest on various topics from the area grows.
Here is a link from last week around our area of interest since you are reading this and when I saw this I froze and paused. Presented with all the evidence I alone have collected from where I live I undeniably reside in an area that was occupied by previous humans for an extremely long time. It therefore makes logical sense that even before Native Americans took up this spot that others before them lived here as well and left all of their tools along the shoreline for future people to find, me included.
For the last decade I have been walking the beaches around the house and returning home with my small satchel of finds which I then review. Back when I was new to this hobby the only thing I knew to look for were the "supermodel '' points and as everyone knows the "super models" are few and far between among all the other much more "common" items. As time has passed I have been made more aware through discussion, sharing, and reading on what to look for and with that in mind "only if I knew then what I know now." See I do have the ability to go back in time because every single satchel I brought home over those ten years I dumped under my deck because I was too lazy to walk back down to the beach and dump the unknowns. I have wheelbarrow loads of spoils under my deck from that decade of walking and this article inspired me to question what I may have missed. Lest I save you the time and tell you now that I once was very ignorant on this topic and I tossed out *a lot* of relics but yesterday was an eye opener on what exactly I do have here from an archeological stand point, a literal mine field of history dating back many millions of years and everything that occurred over that time. I spent 3 hours yesterday sitting over one wheel barrel load and after sorting the large and medium items I am left with a massive small pile of rock that contains a lot of relics. Within that pile I located an item that is very similar in appearance, flint knapped as well, to what was found from this article linked within. I am no expert on any of this but the experts have visited my location and reviewed several of my finds confirming that they are in fact authentic and very old yet here I am with yet another potential artifact that aligns visually with other documented finds that I too will add to my collection.
This hobby continues to inspire me as one who has been fortunate through hard work to have had vast experiences in life; founding and exiting multiple companies, built several enterprises technology platforms through personally building and architecting all the systems, and having met several "famous" people along the way in all my years of 'success' however I tell you now there is NO OTHER feeling I have ever come across in my life of being the first person in thousands of years to pickup a stone relic which once was the only way to survive.
Stay Healthy!
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