Frog Knife

**erunkiswldrnssurvival** · 09-21-2008, 11:59 AM

Originally Posted by tacmedic

What info did the bug lady give you that helped narrow down the dates? Was it used to smash insects too? And what does a university spokesperson know about anthropology?

It doesn't look anything like volcanic glass. It looks more like a basalt. Neither of which would have been found in any of the areas that you are talking about the "Cherocavemen" using it. I've looking in several anthropology texts that I have access to and I have found absolutely no reference to anything called a "frog knife." I am thinking that either someone is pulling your leg or it is a super secret conspiracy to not let us know about the existence of the frog people.

She tried to surmise the species and geographic location . It was determined that it resembled the common Bull frog.

**klkak** · 09-21-2008, 03:20 PM

Originally Posted by Fletcher

All rocks are rocks when you use a rock any rock it is a tool. So rocks are rocks and rocks are tools. The rocks that are on the ground are just rocks. The rock in your hand is a tool.

That is a very good point.

**erunkiswldrnssurvival** · 09-21-2008, 07:04 PM

Thanks again klkak, I have more stuff to show you so i might need to get out my grill. Go ahead and get you one of those skewers!

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**crashdive123** · 09-21-2008, 07:40 PM

Hey Stones Dude....I gotta ask......how many times are you going to post that same picture of your grill?

**tsitenha** · 09-21-2008, 07:46 PM

As many times as he want, (I can even smell it) man all I had to was a cold B-Mac

**erunkiswldrnssurvival** · 09-21-2008, 07:48 PM

I dont mind feeding hungry Bears and Wolves, however i will include a variety menu in the future,my friends are worth that

**erunkiswldrnssurvival** · 09-22-2008, 04:45 PM

This is something that I dont show off often... A set of Iron Axes

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**erunkiswldrnssurvival** · 09-22-2008, 04:51 PM

They were snapped into shape, not ground or hammered, that makes them extreemly nice

**Riverrat** · 09-22-2008, 04:51 PM

Were they found together? If so I would say steel pole and a wedge. Picture is not real clear, but that is what it looks like to me.

**klkak** · 09-22-2008, 04:53 PM

I enhanced the picture and to my surprise there are two objects in it that look like they could have been tools at one time.

**erunkiswldrnssurvival** · 09-22-2008, 05:00 PM

Originally Posted by Riverrat

Were they found together? If so I would say steel pole and a wedge. Picture is not real clear, but that is what it looks like to me.

I found Both of them togather very near to where the The ADAMS Glass works was First housed in Boston Mass.

**crashdive123** · 09-22-2008, 06:12 PM

Any idea of their age?

**erunkiswldrnssurvival** · 09-22-2008, 06:57 PM

Originally Posted by crashdive123

Any idea of their age?

Simular to the natural High ferrous iron, but in Boston ,my "QUESS" is 1509 manufacture date.

**Riverrat** · 09-23-2008, 09:26 AM

We find things like that around here often, not to bust your bubble, but they are in the range of 100-150 years old. I found a couple while doing some excavating last year. They were used to split wood, I have on of the steel poles in the basement now which I use all the time.

**erunkiswldrnssurvival** · 09-23-2008, 09:45 AM

Originally Posted by Riverrat

We find things like that around here often, not to bust your bubble, but they are in the range of 100-150 years old. I found a couple while doing some excavating last year. They were used to split wood, I have on of the steel poles in the basement now which I use all the time.

Tools of these types are hard to date, correctly said, most are not more than a hundred years old. And also feerous materials like iron, copper,ect.. decay like wood does so the realy old ones are rare to survive long term exposure to moist acrid soils. I am trying to put togather a better picture of (the preserved Zones) where artifacts last longer than others. I am trying to understand how Native people wrere aware of places where things last.

**Tony uk** · 09-23-2008, 06:12 PM

Originally Posted by erunkiswldrnssurvival

Tools of these types are hard to date, correctly said, most are not more than a hundred years old. And also feerous materials like iron, copper,ect.. decay like wood does so the realy old ones are rare to survive long term exposure to moist acrid soils. I am trying to put togather a better picture of (the preserved Zones) where artifacts last longer than others. I am trying to understand how Native people wrere aware of places where things last.

Sorry erunkiswldrnssurvival, But i just have to have a smarty a*s moment:-

Copper is a non-ferrous metal, as it does not contain any iron

Smarty moment over..........