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| Rare Scandinavian Combat Knife. See link below for more about that. |
A rare Scandinavian combat knife dating back to the early viking period has been found at a former ‘lost’ battlefield in Poland...
After analysing the topography and the likely course of the old routes, they selected an area around the town of Gródek for archaeological research, expecting to find traces of events from 1,200 years ago.
Instead, they found the 8th century combat knife measuring 90cm with an 80cm-long blade...
Rare Scandinavian combat knife found in Poland | Science in Poland (pap.pl)
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Ancient humans could do some impressive things with elephant bones.
In a new study, University of Colorado Boulder archaeologist Paola Villa and her colleagues surveyed tools excavated from a site in Italy where large numbers of elephants had died. The team discovered that humans at this site roughly 400,000 years ago appropriated those carcasses to produce an unprecedented array of bone tools—some crafted with sophisticated methods that wouldn’t become common for another 100,000 years...
Here is the link for more about that.---
Talking about bones - it can be difficult to tell the difference between a fossil and a stone. Sometimes it is easy, but sometimes not.
Here is one that I'm sure of and one that I'm not.
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| Two Found Objects. One is Fossil Bone - The Other Unknown |
The one on the left is fossilized bone. It is very worn and you can tell it is bone because the porosity o the bone is clearly visible.
Discovery.com gives a peculiar test for distinguishing between tock and fossilized bone - the lick test. Here is what they say.
The dino fossil lick will be stickier than a stone slobber because of the porous nature of bone. As the organic material of the dinosaur (guts, muscles, fat, etc.) breaks down over time, the inorganic stuff will stick around longer. These parts of the bone were made of minerals like calcium, which leaves a fragile, porous mineral in the shape of the internal bone structure...I haven't tried that yet but will. For now I'm just not sure. In fact, the rock/fossi is nicely shaped and could even be a stone artifact - or not. This is one of those that I'll probably never figure out, but I plan to give it a lick, and I'll tell you how it goes.
I found the unidentified object on the banks of the Indian River Lagoon on private land. As you probably already know, many fossils have been found around the Indian River. My favorite is a nice Great White tooth. You can even pay tour guides to take you on fossil hunting tours in the lagoon.
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| Larry. Source: nhc.noaa.gov. |
Looks like Larry will, as expected, head north. It might send the Treasure Coast some swells in about a week. MagicSeaWeed is predicting four to six feet then.