crawdaddy Posted July 30, 2005 Posted July 30, 2005 New here. Don't know if I'm in the right place. I found this along with some arrowheads in an Alabama lake. What is it? Bone? Tool? Any ideas where someone may know?
MetaFrizzics Posted July 31, 2005 Posted July 31, 2005 I believe that is some kind of engagement or wedding ring. It is being worn on the left-hand second finger. But seriously, it looks like some part of a bow & arrow or spear part.
Auk Posted July 31, 2005 Posted July 31, 2005 But seriously, it looks like some part of a bow & arrow or spear part. I doubt that it's any of those things being that it's hollow, dull. My guess is a sort of spoon or something.
H2SO4 Posted July 31, 2005 Posted July 31, 2005 wow, what a cool find! Maybe its nothing (although it certainly looks like some tool).
LucidDreamer Posted July 31, 2005 Posted July 31, 2005 From picture 2 it looks like a cutting tool. The rounded end is held in the palm of the hand and the sharpened strait end is used for cutting like the edge of a blade. Perhaps it could have been used to cut the fat and tendons off of meat and bones or maybe whittling wood. It looks like it is a stone tool to me. Random guess of course. Looking a picture three, it sort of looks like bone. Is it heavy like stone or lighter like bone? Take it to the anthropology department at a university and they could probably tell you in 5 seconds.
coquina Posted July 31, 2005 Posted July 31, 2005 The groove in the back side looks like a rope went there. One end looks like it was broken. It's hollow, so maybe another piece fit inside. I'm wondering if it is a part of a tool for crushing herbs or grain to powder.
LucidDreamer Posted July 31, 2005 Posted July 31, 2005 Maybe it's a broken spoon and a wood stick fit into the grove for a handle.
crawdaddy Posted July 31, 2005 Author Posted July 31, 2005 yeah all my guesses too. Heavy like a rock. feels like a rock. Had it for yaers and no my son is asking what it is. I think some kind of tool.
MetaFrizzics Posted July 31, 2005 Posted July 31, 2005 yeah all my guesses too. Heavy like a rock. feels like a rock. Had it for yaers and no my son is asking what it is. I think some kind of tool. I think it must be man-made, given its unusual similarity to a human hand. As well, the 3-dimensional chirality indicates it was built of 'left-handed' molecules, which suggests a biological origin. Any fool can see it's some kind of cervix cap! I apologize for the previous 'spear part' joke.
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