optically stimulated luminescence

[@RD-ve3wi]

Dr. I am too old to die young and have spent more years tail up head down on family land in Johnson and Hill Counties than I would care to admit. In town I live on Village Ck. the farm where the soil is black and the rock is white is steeped in native culture. The same things that drew European explorers to the region had long been enjoyed by the Buzzard Cave dwellers...abundant water, game and elevation to name a few. Over the last half century I have amassed a collection of artifacts... lithic, bone and botanical in Hill and surrounding counties that is quite daunting. The mystery abounds to this day on many items despite a 95yr old neighbor who dug at night for 'treasure hunters' for dismal sum...1.00 and a long time Klammath friend that still teaches on the res. Collection managers are of little use, a portion of Hill county that was known to be 'safe passage' to all travelers runs the length of my acreage. Butterfield established a coach route on it as they were hard hit. Per the keepers of the portals in Tx. history of the 300 documented raids, all in surrounding counties, none in Hill.....why. It is my experience that bone tools were prominent yet seldom mentioned by sites. A heat treatment to basalt like stone indicates a digging tool that facilitated firm gripping by swelling the palm area by melting/doubling and depressing an area for the thumb. Neolithic anthropomorphic figures which emulate those recently recovered in Greece/Turkey. The fact that they are dyed w/red pigment like those from the Stanford site is beyond coincidental. I don't know what Area 15 portends, hopefully it will shed some light on what cannot be explained away by what is labelled science. How many pieces of Ice Age Art have you brought to light....if you're ever in Rio Vista, we'll wax/wane philanthropic. The larger point that was featured in an early Gault gallery that is a stunning mix of orangeish/pastel pink/blue is identical to a specimen of mine...none of the SME's can i.d. it. Can you shed some light...out of all the nodules spalled off my place yours and one the size of a grapefruit is the only ones I ve seen. Have middens and more.

[@jaysilverheals4445]

I wish there was a way to contact someone how to have this done on archaeological site in which rocks were placed possibly dating to the ice age.

[@drmarkhopkin]

This work was done by the Gault School in Texas. You can get information at www.gaultschool.org/research/research-gault

[@RD-ve3wi]

Post Script: Patrons of Husbandry.....Grangers, if this seems inconsequential or somehow misguided, I assure you it is not. Their fascination w/stone artifacts particularly w/ritual type stones or those of the Zodiac is/was uncanny....Ammonites transformed into man/moon minute relief. A penchant for retouching ancient work or modifying large specimens. A lodge/school was prevalent on one of my properties and the impact on previous culture's' was significant. All that 2 say this....huh wonder how this came to be......no anglo's no dwelllings...so where did this ammonite done in gorgeous relief to a figural ram come from.....the Greeks.....so u c.

[@RD-ve3wi]

so you find a glass marble in the 4 ft deep roots of a tree, growing in a dump abandoned 1910. Could be valuable, scratched, odd.... upon closer exam to grade for sell.....gorgeous 'Last Supper' depicted in miniature..scratched w/small burrin type tool and signed Oz. Since have recovered greenstone celts, conglomerate points w/miniatures by Oz......nobody in a rural area where things haven't changed Philip Nolan have a clue as to Oz an artist unsurpassed....you should see his nativity scenes on old broke china and window pane