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My kid dug up a weird rock in our backyard and 3 professors later it turned out to be a 900 year old tool
Honestly I almost tossed it in the trash pile with the rest of the junk we cleared that Saturday. My 8 year old kept saying it looked like a knife, and after it sat on our kitchen counter for 6 days I finally emailed a photo to the local college. A grad student got back to me in 2 days and said it was a chert scraper, likely 800 to 1000 years old, probably used for hide work. Now my kid thinks he is an archaeologist and I have a plastic bin of rocks under my sink labeled do not throw away.
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the_brian1mo ago
Did the professors tell you to keep it dry and out of sunlight? That chert will flake apart if it sits somewhere damp, so a plastic bin with a lid is actually a solid move. Just snap a photo of it now with a coin next to it for size, in case the kid loses it in a week.
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