My oldest artifact!

And thanks to you as well!

 

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A prehistoric Ant living in my landscaping

 

When I was younger, my focus was primarily on fossils. Numismatics in my pre-teen years were secondary for the most part. Regardless, I've got a few trilobites in my fossil collection.

 

An impressive trilobite! Is it from Morocco?

Also, do you have information on the giant ammonite?

Thanks

 

The Trilobite is indeed from Morroco. However, I don't recall the species of that particular trilobite. As for the Ammonite, I bought that with my allowance when I was 8 years old, and to the best of my knowledge, it came from Madagascar.

 

Thanks

I found an approximate match for your trilobite, online:

https://fossilsforsaleuk.co.uk/products/hollardops-sp-4-9-cm-morocco-devonian

 

My oldest artifact is this Clovis Paleo Indian projectile point from around 10,000-15,000BP.



Transitional Paleo Dalton 8,500-10,500BP.

 

My mistake. I thought you were referring to the one similar to @Collecting Nut's example on the previous page. Regardless, I bought mine at the National Museum of Natural History gift shop for noticeably less than the price quoted in that link.

 

An artifact is an object created by a human.

 

Yeah, whatever on the Artifact definition. My Grandkids still enjoy seeing Moon and Mars rocks, and they being an object over Four BILLION years old. Kinda cool.

I watched us land on the Moon in July, 1969. I am glad to own a piece of it today. Also, a piece of Mars that I hope we visit within my lifetime.



MAMMOTH TUSK

I had bought mine in China, carved, from Mammoth tusk imported through Manchulia from Siberia, Russia. Since then, I understand now it is illegal to import Mammoth Tusk, similar to the Elephant Ivory laws. At the time I purchased them and brought them home, Mammouth was not an endangered species (being extinct), therefore there were no problems. Now, it looks like Custom Laws have changed. Like Ivory, existing pieces are grandfathered (as I understand the changes.)


Mammoth Tusk - Russia find China carved Chinese Zodiac BOAR and RABBIT


I am the Boar, my wife's Zodiak is the Rabbit

 

An Elrathia Kingi trilobite from the Wheeler Shale Formation in Utah. These buggers roamed the seas around the Mid-Cambrian era (about 505 million years ago)





An Knightia Eocaena fresh water schooling fish that swam during the Eocene epoch (56 to 33.9 million years ago) in North America. They are similar to herrings. Since they are schooling fish, there are tons of them and are one of the more common fish fossils that are found. This particular specimen was from the Great River Formation in Wyoming.




This is a lower paleolithic black flint hand axe that is dated to be around 300,000–40,000 BCE..



And a more recent cuneiform foundation cone of Išme-Dagān (1776-1736 BCE) of Isin in Assyria:



The cuneiform transcription and its english-equivalent are below. It requires a Unicode-conformant cuneiform font (see http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/doc/help/visitingoracc/fonts/index.html):



Išme-Dagān, mighty man, king of Isin, king of the Four Quarters (of the world): when he cancelled the taxes of Nippur, the city beloved by Enlil, and excused its men from military/corvee service, he built the city wall of Isin, naming it “Išme-Dagān, with Enlil, the might of(?) the great God

 

Did you find these or buy them? I have a few paleo fluted points I've found. None perfect but 1 is close.

 

I love cuneiform tablets.

My brother has a couple.



Erin

 

It's an extremely cool fossil, and one of my favorite metaphors. The perfect blend of "don't bite off more than you can chew" and "if you're going to be remembered tens of millions of years from now, do you want it to be for this blunder?"

 

Egypt
Neolithic Arrowhead
8000 BCE




Cylinder Seal of Hero Fighting Animals.
Akkadian, 2350-2200 BCE
Buff stone cylinder seal with scene of hero wresting antelope and winged lion.
25 mm.
Good subject, design worn but still makes an impression.
Ex J Tabot collection..

 

Very nice

 

here's a Acheulean hand axe made by a Homo Erectus and found in Germany.

4.5 inches long and circa 300,000 (?) years old.

 

Here are 2 artifacts. They were crafted by humans for 2 different reasons. The first is a Canaanite lamp which I own. The second is likely a spear- head nearly 13 cm long. I might buy it tomorrow but not sure how much shall I pay. It belongs to the stone age and was made of silex, according to seller. Thanks for your advice.

 

I would be careful buying these spear points, they could have been made yesterday.