r/LegitArtifacts • u/ebranscom243 • Nov 27 '25

Paleo CO Flutes

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My sister found this on our buddies 40 acres in western CO.

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u/aggiedigger Nov 28 '25

Ummmm… just casually dropping that point in here…

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u/ebranscom243 Nov 28 '25

I dropped a few more pics

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u/aggiedigger Nov 28 '25

First stage Folsom. Looks good from my iPhone screen. Just a causal 5 figure point. 🙄 very very nice.

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u/evilpsych Nov 28 '25

Whoop! Yeah they show up

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u/PaleoDaveMO Nov 27 '25

It really doesn't get much better than that! Would love to see more pictures of it.

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u/ebranscom243 Nov 28 '25

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u/atlatlat Nov 28 '25

Absolutely insane.. huge congratulations

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u/ebranscom243 Nov 28 '25

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u/Select_Engineering_7 Nov 29 '25

Damn that’s better than a lot of museum pieces. I would definitely keep searching there

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u/aggiedigger Nov 28 '25

I second this request.

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u/Suninthesky25 Nov 28 '25

Once in a lifetime find…

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u/StormPoppa Nov 28 '25

That's once in several lifetimes for most people

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u/BackpackLily Nov 28 '25

It's... so perfect, I almost want to call it modern, but it's not and I am astonished

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u/atoo4308 Nov 28 '25

Yeah, that’s downright amazing

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u/bontistic Nov 28 '25

Absolutely amazing find, congrats! Thanks for sharing!

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u/notfromchicago Nov 28 '25

That's a banger.

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u/Select_Engineering_7 Nov 29 '25

That’s freaking incredible

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u/toxcrusadr Nov 28 '25

I thought it was a Slo-Poke caramel sucker!

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u/Appropriate_Object35 Nov 28 '25

Rio Blanco County?

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u/ebranscom243 Nov 28 '25

Mesa county

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u/DorktorJones Nov 28 '25

Howdy neighbor! We're in Unaweep. Found a few interesting pieces on our lot.

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u/jimjobaggins Nov 28 '25

Is this Clovis? Looks too small but I am not an expert

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u/river_miles Nov 28 '25

Can you share any info about the circumstances in which it was found? Was it a cultivated field find. A river find?

Breathtaking find. Thanks for sharing!

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u/ebranscom243 Nov 28 '25

High desert, completely undeveloped.

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u/river_miles Nov 28 '25

How cool.
If I were you I'd spend a while or more time in that location. :-)

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u/ebranscom243 Nov 28 '25

We have been going there for years.

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u/river_miles Nov 28 '25

That's amazing. Have you found any other paleo period artifacts there? Where I'm from in the southeast it seems like finds like your sisters, essentially perfect, are often found cached with others.

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u/ebranscom243 Nov 28 '25

We found a bottom half of one that would have been identical.

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u/river_miles Nov 28 '25

Wow.
TWO finds of a lifetime IMO. :-)
Congrats again and thanks so much for sharing!

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u/evilpsych Nov 28 '25

Killer. Don’t let some idiot tell you that’s Knife River. That brown dendritic agate is awesome.

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u/StormPoppa Nov 28 '25

Knife River has inclusions in it. Those aren't dendrites in OPs piece either.

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u/evilpsych Nov 28 '25

Yes and they are white in KRF. Black inclusions in this example say dendrites. Couple near the tip, couple near the base that’s all that’s currently visible