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<p>[QUOTE="Plumbata, post: 3231246, member: 96864"]Nice artifacts, I have a few of those terracotta seals too, also with finger/palm prints.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don't really collect New World stuff as I like metal artifacts, but the natives had a few tricks up their sleeves, including this 37 gram, 4.5 inch long copper spearhead. It is from the "Old Copper Complex" of the Great Lakes region, where pure native copper was mined and fashioned into an array of tools. It's probably ~6,000 years old.</p><p><br /></p><p>Apart from the appealing construction and form, it has very definite deep divots on 1 side of the blade. Some of the divots closer to the business end are less pronounced or perhaps fully missing due to loss of metal and carbonate patina, but what remains suggests that it was quite purposefully decorated with Punctates or punch marks. "The purpose of punctates and dashes is not clearly understood, but may include: decoration, ownership marks, maker marks, family or clan marks, a form of prototype writing, tallying objects or events, celestial maps, designs for the production of certain copper artifacts and or recording stories or events."</p><p>[ATTACH=full]843827[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's a pretty cool bronze of Philip V, 221–179 BC, I like the pair of recumbent goats.</p><p>[ATTACH]843832[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]843837[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Plumbata, post: 3231246, member: 96864"]Nice artifacts, I have a few of those terracotta seals too, also with finger/palm prints. I don't really collect New World stuff as I like metal artifacts, but the natives had a few tricks up their sleeves, including this 37 gram, 4.5 inch long copper spearhead. It is from the "Old Copper Complex" of the Great Lakes region, where pure native copper was mined and fashioned into an array of tools. It's probably ~6,000 years old. Apart from the appealing construction and form, it has very definite deep divots on 1 side of the blade. Some of the divots closer to the business end are less pronounced or perhaps fully missing due to loss of metal and carbonate patina, but what remains suggests that it was quite purposefully decorated with Punctates or punch marks. "The purpose of punctates and dashes is not clearly understood, but may include: decoration, ownership marks, maker marks, family or clan marks, a form of prototype writing, tallying objects or events, celestial maps, designs for the production of certain copper artifacts and or recording stories or events." [ATTACH=full]843827[/ATTACH] Here's a pretty cool bronze of Philip V, 221–179 BC, I like the pair of recumbent goats. [ATTACH]843832[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]843837[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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