Nice Probable Stone Old Tool.....Comments?

[John-Edmonton]

My associate at work has an uncle who has been collecting indian artifacts off his and nearby lands. This was one of his recent finds.

 

[ralph]

Resembles a stone axe head, if so- predates most Indian relics

 

[Melbeta]

I found one very similiar to it, a number of years ago, in the sandy area of Monument Creek, north of the North Entrance to the U.S. Air Force Academy. I was wandering there, looking for mineral crystals, when I spotted it as an Indian relic. I am going to try and upload some photos of my stone axe head. It even shows signs of where it was sharpened to an edge! I used to be a National Park Ranger, so I know Indian relics. Is pre-modern Indian, called Stone Age Axes. Very very old!!! During Paleolithic times.
Melbeta

 

[Melbeta]

Posted 4 photos of my stone axe, but only the last photo showed up, so am going back and posting just the first side view image, for some reason posting photos does not seem to work very good for me.
Will try again...
Melbeta

 

[rick (nova scotia)]

Possibly a hammer stone.

Even yours is not an axe, at the risk of getting into an arguement it is not nearly sharpe enough, and yes I have seen a couple of stone axes in hand. A friend of mine has been lucky enough to find 2 of them, me ...just points.

 

[joe dirt_1]

those are indian sex rocks.

 

[joe dirt_1]

I collected Indian artifacts for over 30 years and have found several axes and celts while surface hunting. While I'm not a park ranger, I know these are nothing but ordinary rocks. Paleolithic hand axes were chipped flint and not stone, really not more than a chunk of flint with a few flakes driven off to form a cutting edge. How could you expect to cut anything with that thick blunt edge?

 

[407floyd]

Notice in the pictures that the dip in the middle is where the softer, lighter, granular material of the stone are located. The same on the left and right ends of the 1st pic. The harder, darker, more dense material didn't erode down as much. This action would occur naturally as with other rocks that have been eroded in glaciers and rivers. This one took the shape of what looks like a tool.

 

[edjcox]

Often these stones where simply used as clubs so they were not sharp. One can sometimes see clearly where they were bound with wettened leather to the wood handle. This stone appears a natural item to me exhibiting weathering at that center area due to a softer stone layer. Needless to say it's difficult to be certain from a few images. Clubs for bludgeoning in combat and even animals were common tools of ancient man in the wilds of North America....

 

[scubadetector]

I know you hunt the water most the time and if it is on both sides you might have a fishing net weight. We find them in Michigan a lot.

 

[1859large]

It does have the shape of a possible fishing weight but the one thing I note, as a geologist and an owner of a similar shaped rock is that the concave surface follows the change in grainsize of the rock. The middle portion is probably slightly softer than the top and bottom and has naturally weathered that way. Now this does not mean it was not used as a weight, just that it was picked up and used as it was found and not made. My rock was found, on a pebble beach, in a salt water cove used for centuries by europeans and before that by indians but I think is still a natural rock that may or may not have been used as a weight.

HH

1859

Your neighbour in Cowtown.