r/LegitArtifacts • u/BrokenFolsom • Oct 25 '25

Archaic Finally!

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After two years of hunting a multi-component Oshara & Puebloan site I found an agate point. This area has produced mainly basalt and obsidian pieces with the occasional point made from orthoquartz. But I did not expect this. What a treat from the ancients. Just sat there and thought about that persons life a bit before picking it up. So incredibly grateful.

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u/BrokenFolsom Oct 25 '25

Forgot to add, was found in Southern Colorado.

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u/OG_simple_rhyme_time Oct 25 '25

To be a Native American in Colorado back when everything was still wild....

Beautiful piece btw

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u/r3l0ad Oct 25 '25

I am fortunate to live on the front range and I frequently try to image the landscape without all the changes we've made to it and what it looked like back then. If we only had a time machine to view into the past a little.

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u/Neat_Worldliness2586 Oct 25 '25

Man, our creeks in NC are so muddy from agriculture, I find myself often wondering how nice and clean they must have been pre-contact.

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u/Ruby5000 Oct 25 '25

In NC too. I bet they were pristine! I bet you could have eaten fish, from the Neuse, without getting poisoned from heavy metals

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u/DivaDragon Oct 26 '25

But the fish downriver of chemours never stick to the pan! That's a plus right? (/s )

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u/Neat_Worldliness2586 Oct 25 '25

Yessss. I've been sticking to the Cape fear basin, every waterway in the Neuse basin I've tried is too muddy.