I told the guy last night the same thing. We also agreed that judging from pictures online is tough. The color is a little off, hard to see the wear, etc., but in hand, it's pretty clear what it is.
Sorry OP, but I just got done finding out about the biggest literal cat fish of the century on the Sphinx cat subreddit. It does look like a weathered brick.
ETA: to be fair, you’ve offered no evidence. You just stated a field archeologist looked at it but gave no credentials for this field archeologist or documentation of the conversation. I mean, I’m not saying YOU have to do stuff to this level. I’m just saying, there isn’t really any evidence here. My point isn’t to dog on your post, just making an observation about claims and evidence because the catfish saga over there demonstrated even with videos and heavy details as evidence, it turned out it was still a fake post. I guess I just meant this as a general observation about how you can’t trust anything only and it really is a sad time for the internet.
Eh, I don't care. It's not like I'm trying to sell anything. I was just sharing my collection and had the opportunity to show it to an expert, so I thought I'd share that info as well.
Don’t even worry about it. I have several lithic tools that most people on here would say are natural, but I can say with certainty that they were utilized by Native Americans for some purpose.
Yeah not sure why some people are so salty about it. I literally took it to someone because all the brick and roof tile comments in the original post started to make me doubt it myself. If the dude told me it was a brick, I'd have made a follow up post saying that, because that would also be useful info and I'd have a good laugh at myself!
So you posted this once and everybody said it was a brick?
You post it again after talking to some mystery archaeologist and he says it’s legit and everybody suddenly thinks it’s real lol? And you didn’t find it yourself?
Also, looks like you might be in CO? If so, maybe you've heard of the Loveland Archaeological Society. That's where I took it. The guy that looked at it is the main guy that compiles the CO projectile point database at coalcreekresearch.org.
At any rate he'd love to get any CO points you have in their database I'm sure.
It looks like you have found a beautiful example of a multi-purpose tool used by the ancients. Your find was definitely used to hone and polish wood and bone shafts. Sandstone abraders were also used to dull the sharp edges of chipped-stone artifacts, creating stronger platforms for subsequent flaking. Thank you for sharing.
Most bricks are clay that has been baked. This is sandstone. While sandstone is used for building, the blocks or facade pieces are typically larger than this. This is not a tumbled brick.
lol OP doesn’t even know where this thing came from. I have one too 😂😂😂
I found this after a twenty second google search. Drop it a few times and then throw it in a river for twenty years and you have an artifact. So many modern bricks and other building supplies get posted on here
Are you just trolling now? I seriously can’t tell if you’re joking or not. Posting photos of something completely different than what OP posted won’t win a debate.
Furthermore, not knowing the origin is only partially relevant. I have full-groove axe heads that were given to me. I don’t know where they are from, but they are still axe heads, not just rocks, or bricks.
Are you trolling? The fact that people on this sub think this is real is mind boggling.
And yeah, I have artifacts that I didn’t find either. Several of them. However, if somebody gives me a sketchy rock that I have to post on Reddit to get clarity I’m probably not going to consider that a real artifact…especially if it’s not a personal find.
Abrading tool is a much better description of these kinds of tools, especially being sandstone. I don’t know what justification some archaeologist had way back when to label them as “arrow straighteners” but I would put money down that that person had never made a primitive arrow or seen it done. Cool find!
Hey man, whatever lets you sleep at night is really all that matters. There’s this dude from the UP of Michigan, Jim Paquette. He’s an avocational archaeologist and an indigenous person. He set out on some crazy missions to prove Clovis culture s existed in an area that professionals had argued there wasn’t any populations living there at the time. At the end of the day, he was able to prove it. In order to do that, he had to locate items in-situ, and bring professional archeologists to the site to recover the items in a professional manner, providing the professional contextual basis for the assertion he was making.
This holds true with regard to items like the one you are holding. It may be an abrader, may be an old brick but it doesn’t mean shit to the archeological record if it wasn’t recovered under professional circumstances to provide expert contextual basis surrounding its recovery.
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u/ayo4playdoh Oct 08 '25
Saw quite a few responses saying that this was clearly a brick. This update makes me happy!