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My New Neolithic Trinket...

Pantagathus

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So the other weekend I (as well as some other folks) went up to Black Mountain, NC to visit my sister. We spent most of Saturday doing some Christmas shopping around the town shops.

 

In one of the antique shops we went into, there was a little box of stuff on the front counter that I usually don't bother to look at in a store: 'Arrowheads'

 

I have quite a few, but they have all been found by me or in a few cases my great uncle. I've never really felt driven to pick through a box and pay money for them. Lately however, I learned a lot more about differentiating styles from certain periods of prehistory; so, when I saw the box that day I was curious to look through it and see if I could find some really old points (>10,000 years old).

 

For the most part I was pretty disappointed as almost all of the points were broken. However, I finally found one fragment that really caught my attention...

 

It was made of a beautiful, translucent, green stone and comes across as more of a ceremonial piece than a functional one; as the tip was worked in a rounded manor instead of a point.

 

I would say that it was what an archaeologist would consider an amulet or charmstone artifact. Furthermore, the reason it seems for the artifact not being whole has to do with evidence that an attempt was made to put a hole in it, probably for use in a necklace. Whether done by the original workman or in modern times I have no way of knowing.

 

The main reason I was so fascinated with this artifact has to do with a tenuous connection to similar charmstones found in Near Eastern & Anatolian Mesolithic communities and Asian (Chinese) Neolithic ones... Apparently, small greenstone ax heads used as amulets are recognized as a sort of ancient sun worshipping talisman. In fact, I've read that in the Anatolian case it's connected to the pre-historic, Pelasgian Zeus.

 

I was so overwhelmed by the piece that I didn't hesitate one bit to buy it. I can't really describe it but it really does exude a sort of power and I find myself unconsciously compelled to touch it and keep it close to me.

 

It's really quite fascinating. I wish I could thank the ancient man who made it.

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Pantagathus

THAT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM!

 

Naa just kiddin :)

 

 

Hahahaha :P

 

Seriously though, it does break my heart that so many artifacts left by Paleo-Indians & Native Americans have been treated as worthless trinkets ever since Europeans showed up and started plowing them up... Sooooooooooooooo much history is totally out of context now.

 

If I were approached to hand it over to antiquity society - museum, I would. ;)

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Lost_Warrior

Can we see a picture of it? :)

 

I have an apache tear arrowhead (I think that's what it is) though there is no doubt in my mind that it *isn't* ancient. I'm almost positive it's a modern recreation. I've wrapped it with wire to be worn as a necklace.

 

I also have a piece of flourite...it isn't an arrowhead...I understand the compulsion to touch and hold stones and such...I'm drawn to my flourite the same way...actually many stones...I have a collection. LOL when I moved I had not unpacked my crystals yet and was suffering from a "crystal deficiency" untill I unpacked them and put them out in my room. :)

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Pantagathus

Can we see a picture of it? :)

 

 

I'm working on it! :) Though I'm still without a digital camera... :)

 

I eventually want to post each of the arrow & spearheads I've found.

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