[meteorite-list] New Meteorite used as Neolithic Tool

From: cdtucson at cox.net <cdtucson_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 12:21:16 -0500
Message-ID: <20110106122116.CIPIS.726876.imail_at_fed1rmwml30>

Orrin. all,
You prompted me to check my pre-historic tool finds and curiously one looks a lot like the Los Angeles Martians.
I actually mentioned this to Bob Varish a few years ago bu,t we have yet to get together and compare them in person.
What are your thoughts? Please see link below with pictures of my partial Stone Axe. The plagioclase laths even appear to be of the same scale as the LA Martians.
I know. I'm crazy but, have a look anyway.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/13030472 at N07/

Carl


Carl or Debbie Esparza
Meteoritemax


---- Orrin <orrlarue at gmail.com> wrote:
> Very impressive indeed. I just went through my inventory of Neolithic
> tools (collected legally) and all of mine are made from basalt. Darn.
> I wish my 70 pound matate was an OC Really cool find. Phil,you are
> correct this is a discoidal.
>
> Orrin La Rue
> Surprise, AZ
>
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Michael Gilmer <meteoritemike at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm no expert, but I concur with Phil. ?It does like the discoidal
> > shown in the link.
> >
> > Either way, it's a super find. ?Congrats to Philippe. ?:)
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > MikeG
> >
> >
> > On 1/5/11, JoshuaTreeMuseum <joshuatreemuseum at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> >> It looks a lot more like a cupstone or a discoidal than a hammerstone.
> >> Doesn't look anything like an anvil. An anvil would have a flat ?surface. A
> >> hammerstone generally wouldn't have a depression in its middle. We have a
> >> Campo in the museum ?that was used as an anvil, I have a picture of it
> >> somewhere....
> >>
> >>
> >> Cupule:
> >> http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a6/NutterPen759.pdf/page1-240px-NutterPen759.pdf.jpg&imgrefurl=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupstone&usg=__4CsS3wfr9tZ1FJumz8AO0nbnuSg=&h=196&w=240&sz=8&hl=en&start=11&sig2=QJZqojW36XnfMRWDw4as_g&zoom=0&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=oUb8AvV5zA9lMM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=110&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcupstone%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26tbs%3Disch:1&ei=XLMkTbDzMMP78AbBz6XRDQ
> >>
> >> Discoidal:
> >> http://www.relicshack.com/Details.aspx?Id=14943
> >>
> >> Phil Whitmer
> >> -----------------------------
> >>
> >> Hi List,
> >>
> >> A new meteorite (Bouanane) was added to the Met Bulletin yesterday and
> >> in the description it says the meteorite was used as a hammer/anvil
> >> tool in the Neolithic period.
> >>
> >> This meteorite came out of Morocco courtesy of Philippe Thomas. Does
> >> anyone have a photo of this specimen? I'm very curious to see what it
> >> looks like.
> >>
> >> http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=52888
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >>
> >> MikeG
> >>
> >>
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