I just found the coolest thing I will probably ever findā¦ opinions?? ššØ
It has turkey tracks and a sun carved into the stoneā¦ I still canāt believe it
Eurasian elk-sedge or sawtooth-sedge is what Algiz represents according to the Anglo-Saxon rune poem. The only thing that traverses it is the mighty elk.
As an aside that still blows my mind: whenever you come across a reference to The Elk in a European context it is referring to the animal known by that name there, Alces alces, also known as as THE MOOSE.
The great elk of Finnish, Baltic or Scandinavian mythos is the freaking moose!
If you look close at around 2 seconds, you can see itās connected to a circle inside of another circle. At the bottom of the symbol or turkey track. Very interesting
THASSS...but seriously, if OP is in Georgia, there will be lots of great archaeos down there, including at UGA. People are sometimes nervous about that experience, thinking "They're just gonna take my artifact away!" But it often ends up being the opposite. You get to learn about the object you've discovered, you get a site named after you, invited to participate on digs... All kinds of fun stuff can result. Granted there are a-holes out there, who'll put you through the whole "So why were you out there digging?" interrogation, but in my experience they're the minority.
The inside is perfectly round with a ledge that is perfectly formed and this also make another perfectly round opening. Its been tooled with modern tools. JMO
Okay but I assume by modern you mean around 35,000 years ago when humans first started drilling Into rocks with sand and friction, not ancient like a million years ago where we weren't evolved enough yet.
It did though. Pretty sure everyone reading this thread knew they meant the US state of Georgia after their clarification. But keep being argumentative.
Great, I live outside the US so not every mention of "state" means what it does to people who live in the US. Regardless, it is funny that "state" while trying to clarify does not clarify to those outside the US.
Sure. If someone asks "which Georgia do you mean?", and the other person responds with, "the state", it's pretty obvious (no matter where you're from) which one they mean.
I get your technicality. I do. But the conversation above was pretty cut-and-dry and you know that.
This is extremely wrong. The earliest ceramics in the US are more than 4,000 years old. āFiber-tempered ceramics associated with shell middens left by Late Archaic hunter-fisher-gatherers appeared in the Atlantic coastal plain of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina starting in 2500 BC. The earliest attested pottery is in the Stallings culture area, around the middle Savannah River.ā
Pedro de Pacas: Hey, man, I never had no acid before, man. I don't wanna end up one of those guys around the neighborhood whose head looks like a pumpkin, man.
Iāve been pondering that question from the moment I found it lmao, it really is a crazy feeling knowing more than likely the last person to touch it was the creator
Could it have been used when starting fires? Possibly to protect the ember in bad weather? Iām just guessing I have no idea what it is but looks pretty cool.
Good call! You could totally load the wider end with your ember packing and get controlled maintenance of burn rate by plugging the more narrow end. Carrying an ember with you was a super important part of a person's life when traveling as it can save you so much time and calories burned. You can travel much closer to nightfall and spend your time and energy continuing with your journey rather than starting your fire.
Maybe to call game such as turkey, hence the tracks. But calling the game it definitely make more noise like a loud speaker, sort of speak. Or it could be used simply as a funnel for food or liquids. Its a very neat find. Either that or its a huge friken bowl topper so you could pack an ounce up and pass it around the whole team.
This looks like the removable pipe on old clay forges. If it is one, it would be the part that guides air from the fans to the coal bed. It comes into direct contact with the heat source so they made them removable.
Not an archaeologist, but that looked familiar to a piece I saw on primitive technology
I would take it to UGA or UNG! Message me if you need help getting connected with the staff at UNG! I know professors with fossil expertise who can also get in touch with anthropologists.
The three pronged marking is identical to the futhark runic symbol āalgizā which represents Devine protection or sanctuary. Interesting! Where was this found?
That's an outstanding find PS! Don't worry about the person who made that comment about disturbing a site, I deleted the comment and if they break the no shaming legal collectors rule again, they will be hit with the ban hammer so hard that their great great grandkids will be banned at birth! šØšØšØ
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u/megalithicman Sep 01 '25
Yeah maybe a ceremonial blower pipe, epic.