Jan. 3rd, 2010

I walked down to Pebble Beach this morning since Jack had a couple of hunters that were wanting to shoot some pigs and they were down at Four Corners sitting in Darren’s blind.  I haven’t heard any shots so I don’t know if they saw any pigs or not.

Like I have talked about in previous post, Pebble Beach has really changed but that makes it good for finding Indian artifacts since all the stuff that was at the bottom is now laying on top.  I found the following things today:

Linda tells me that rocks like this one with a little cut out in them were used by Indians to hold paint or maybe to mix medicines.  Linda is my expert for Indian artifacts so it must be true.

This is a stone that they might have used as a knife or a scrapper.

This is a stone that fits naturally in your hand with a place for your fingers and thumb and might have been used as a hammer used to chip out other tools or arrowheads.

This looks like a stone that someone might have started to make either an arrowhead or maybe a spear and didn’t finish.  We have been told by several experts that Mother Nature will not make sharp edges on stones, only men make those.  The problem we now have is that men use machines to crush stones and sometimes the stones in up in the river and we aren’t sure if they were chipped by Indians of long ago or present day men using machines.

That is until you find something like this one and there is no doubt that it was made by Indians.

I also look for rocks to add to my rock collection.  I like rocks that are different and this one looked like a fossil rock when I first picked it up and there seems to be a few fossils embedded but I like it because the image in the center reminds me of a pixie fairy.  It looks better in person than it does in the picture.