SOLID LIFE STONE! ~ 600. Indian Artifact Find! Oct 2017

Political Interest! VITAL! ‘This is a compilation of two videos featuring Rene Downs who was staying at the Bellagio hotel on Oct 1st and heard automatic fire, broken glass and stampeding crowds at the Patrician Lounge. Her room was comped by Hotel staff who claims that no shooting was heard at that location. Rene Downs timestamps the sounds of automatic gunfire to just after 11pm a full forty-five minutes after shooting ended at the Mandalay Bay.’ Link: “Witness To Bellagio Hotel Shooting 45 Min after Mandalay Bay Massacre Speaks Out”: • Video
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[@buzzzzz8455]

You’re videos are awesome! Thanks..I always feel like I’m right there with you, the way you narrate! 🙏🏻

[@indiantrace371]

THX

[@rondias6625]

Outstanding finds..quartz artifacts are very rare here in western Pa..👍the round stone artifact on the other hand we have thousands of those around here left from the glacier..some were used as tools some are just river stones geofacts..you look for any pecking and useage marks.. awesome find for your area..👍👍👍

[@indiantrace371]

Thanks for the info... you have indeed seen the hammerstones!

[@BabyMoroMou]

Perfectly round. Intentional. I would be shocked to be able to find one! ❤

[@indiantrace371]

Well, you will just have to yield to being "shocked"! It will be my hope you can walk up to beautiful things.

[@brianhall9368]

Ben it is always a blessing and pure amazement to see your discovered treasures. Always so fascinating to imagine how far they have traveled with the great people. I enjoy your teachings. Thank you again for my gifts you have given to me over the summer. All your hard work and kindness is still appreciated. I share them and enjoy them daily. I took them to the school and shared with the kids at an elementary school up here where my fiancée works at.

[@indiantrace371]

Awesome! Thanks for reminding me! If I could afford to ship them, I would send you a BOX of hammer stones! Heavy!!

[@Hopewellmj]

Beautiful finds! Great points! Amazing quarts artifacts. Well done my friend!

[@indiantrace371]

Thx!

[@jimfarmer2621]

Nice finds Mr Ben...That mostly crystal Guildford, is still a "kisser", I'd say! Love seeing the round hardstone tool too, oh yeah!! Thnx for sharing! Singing Wolf

[@indiantrace371]

thx

[@lostbear442]

Another great video, thank you for sharing the story on the stones in the area. Looking powerful in your hands

[@indiantrace371]

Thx

[@franknorthcutt2958]

Beautiful hammer-stone! Very nice artifacts. Thanks for taking us along. Blessings!

[@indiantrace371]

Welcome!

[@ChipCornernotch1972]

Another day of great finds, Ben! you are on fire!!

[@indiantrace371]

Thx!

[@cabelly27]

Any stone like this not found naturally in a area of mud creeks has been traded in for use! Cool finds man

[@indiantrace371]

YES!!! Awesome! I love the confirmations! I also have detected dimples on each side.

[@michaeljustice4537]

As always you find some epic artifacts! I really miss hunting in NC because of the Sandy Soil. The sand really makes a difference when field hunting. Here in Georgia the ground is mostly clay around my area and any tilling or grading just destroys the points. I recently found a new home site on top of a hill above the Etowah River. Less than a minute I found a point that the base was snapped off and ten minutes later found a handful of broken quartz pieces. The last piece was snapped at the point and the base, just a mid section. Great finds none the less. Quick question....do you flint knap as well?

[@indiantrace371]

Nope! Never have napped! Thanks for passing through!

[@scottiesimms5373]

Great finds as always Ben ! Really cool tool looks like it was drawn out it's so round ! Have a good one freind

[@indiantrace371]

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[@FastFXS]

I really enjoy artifact hunting with you and all the others that post on you tube. I’ve subscribed to all I have been able to find. I like to imagine I’m with you in the field, creek, river, or wherever you may go. I sure miss my old Ky. hunting grounds. Moved to the piedmont region of NC. quite a few years ago and have had no success finding artifacts here. Looking forward to more hunts with you.

[@indiantrace371]

Appreciated!

[@josefizquierdo6139]

Almost everywhere I tread on, I stumble upon stones which, I believe, are Paleo Native American artifacts. Some of the stones have unique shapes, but they might just be coincidental. I live where a pond used to exist. I also live near the Rio Grande in South Texas.

[@indiantrace371]

Interesting!

[@greatbasinman]

Hardstone is rounded and polished, definitely an artifact, especially when so few occur and amongst the chipped stone tools!

[@indiantrace371]

Yup! Thx!

[@tommyvinson6]

Beautiful artifacts Ben. That looks like a mano type stone a very nice piece.

[@indiantrace371]

thx

[@troyshonkwilerjr7979]

Great finds like videos you post of the hunts & i never herd you say anything ells about your last give away? On living with or among tham instead of taking over thar land? Just wondering. Hope you video more finds my friend & god bless.

[@indiantrace371]

Thanks! YES! The giveaway was won. Sometimes anonymously as this time... sometimes I post who won. If folks do not hear... they know me and that someone good won! More Moving Day Giveaways coming!

[@thegrinch9307]

Have found a few away from rivers highly polished had a older gentleman who around here the archaeologist ask his opinion on most eccentric pieces he called them worry stones

[@indiantrace371]

Got that! There are also pressure flaking divots on each side!

[@20greeneyes20]

I'm not sure if it was you that found stones that are in the shape of a foot but my question to you is. I found at the Susquehanna river in Maryland a stone in the shape of a sole of a shoe about 6 inches long of course it's stone and very smooth. I know they have used these stones as molds to form their shoes. So, Any hints what else I could look for to validate it being a true artifact. Some stones your imagination can go wild. Its fun to think it is a form for a shoe. Thanks !

[@indiantrace371]

Just send me an image at [e-mail]! I will tell you what I honestly believe!

[@jarmyvicious]

Food stuff! I always end up bringing home anything remotely resembling an artifact so I can at least have another look at it in different light.

[@indiantrace371]

Yup!

[@theotherartifactstoa776]

Me too. I find amazing stuff in a creek where everybody looks for arrowheads. Most of my finds are not flint

[@WelcomeEvery1]

I have some and need buyer

[@indiantrace371]

Some what? What do you have which needs a buyer?

[@FastFXS]

Forgot to add, maybe a discodial preform??

[@indiantrace371]

I do not believe so... they did need these types as they were for the conditioning of hides... rubbing and working brains into the skins. The discoidal were in majority associated with Cahokia, and traversed out from their. Rare outside this context. Mostly resting in the Late Woodland to Mississippian Period and from those who had the wealth and leisure to "play". Most all hunter gatherers did not have this.

[@timothydavis3216]

Very nice stone artifact! Yes it’s a keeper! Thx great find!!!

[@indiantrace371]

Thx

[@ShanesWorld1978]

Awesome

[@indiantrace371]

thx

[@rbeneveds]

I agree on that hammer! Shame on that crystal guilford, with a little work it could be again!

[@indiantrace371]

Rob! Just the one I wanted to mentioned on this... the stone has dimples on both sides... I trust pressure flaking was happening!

[@michaelhedgepeth5106]

Indian Trace. Polishing....;?? I aint being smart butt , crystal points is everywhere round here! Ive got a dozen layn on pool light , its layin on the mantel over fire place. Man, its something to watch them lights beaming all around the room ,changing colors ..baby blue, pink,purple, yellow. Shimmering thru them crystals...Ive got qiartz crystals hig as ya fist a layin up there..runs ladys giddy, lookin them light shootin thru the big cystals..!

[@offgridphyllismathison5798]

I have a stone that bleeds water all year round its freaky actually a bolder lol it never stops ever

[@indiantrace371]

Wow! A porous rock which has a spring beneath it!

[@bobhendricks3316]

Nice finds

[@indiantrace371]

thx

[@johnkraus3476]

Found medicine man kit I call it 2pipes bowel&2grinders all in 1 spot in creek

[@indiantrace371]

Sounds cool... but what are you talking about? A creek find today?

[@chadwaldron6329]

Farmers plows wreak havoc on artifacts.

[@indiantrace371]

Yes, true, YET without the machines I would not find 98% of these artifacts!

[@pamcolechadwell1302]

I just don't understand why you all have to take there belongings! Those tools have been there for many many years! Just take photo's and say look what I found!

[@indiantrace371]

Thanks for the comment! Who are you?? 'Disturbing the artifacts' (?) does not happen with me or so many others here in this community. Industry, modernity and agriculture "disturb" and damage regularly. We look to save. These materials were also "expendable" to the North American Indians. These stone age tools were used and then discarded as the moved on, or just left behind. The wonderful 'artifacts' you speak of have not been "laid to rest" by them... they were used diligently as a resource (Paleo thru Woodland) used the stone to be discarded 98% of the time. If anything, being able to seek and save their memory in the earth, and promote the People they were to a post-modern society, is a great honor. Be well and go slow, Ben

[@pamcolechadwell1302]

I'm no body! I just hate seeing people take their belongings making money from them or what ever else! White men killed and moved the Native American off their land and then the one's that didn't get killed off they were moved to the most harsh land in the United States Of America and now all the white men want to do is make money from their belongings that should be left where they left them!!

[@indiantrace371]

I really appreciate your heart. Thank you. Please let me share this with you, and possibly we will better understand this life we speak of. I live with Indian blood myself. I am a North American; an avid Pre-Columbian North American history study; was a high school & middle school history teacher; lived with the Navajo Indians in NM and am now employed as an educator for the City. To daily strive to learn more of this Magnificent Race we speak of is the greatest honor. I want you to first know that I myself, and every artifact collector I know, embrace the sufferings forced on and endured by the North American Indian. We all regularly speak of our broken-heart of it. It was/is a disaster I have spoken of many times in my book Indian Trace. (www.amazon.com/dp/B075MVHX42) We “hate” seeing or sharing in any disrespect as well. The community you see here on Indian Trace do not “take Their belongings”… for the Stone Age North American Indian (as these artifacts were NOT made by Historic Period Indians) have gone forward to a better place. We literally “save” the smallest trace of their lives… the utility and scraps they left behind in stone… scattered purposely by the millions. We work against time in a modern society to beat industry. Nature, agriculture & development regularly etch away the very last possibility of Their memory in the earth. We work for Their lives… as many of us are North American Indians ourselves, our duty is to love. I know MANY collectors, yet still do not know anyone who does this to make ANY money. The many “Artifacts Shows” we might see, and which people post, are folks very much like me sharing a mutual heart and so taken back by the incredible expressions of life others have been able to save. It is definitely not about the money. Again, I understand where you speak from. Believe it or not we all anger about the injustices of corruption in history both past and present! You are right, the “Native Americans” you speak of were indeed horribly mistreated… so in-humanly it should not be something detailed or spoken of. These Tribes and Clans were/are a Historic Period “collection” of Indian peoples (1100AD to present) who’s People had suffered at least two historic episodes of pandemic disease. These bouts of smallpox, cholera and tuberculosis; through the end of the Mississippian Period; decimated the original tribes by 10 to 1! Only 90% of their People survived! So scared and completely scattered, through the next five centuries they found a way to knit themselves back together into the tribal names we know today. None of these North American produced the artifacts we collect from the Stone Age. Historic Period Indians are often just as fascinated & curious about the ages of People past. What we save is all Pre-Columbian… the bulk of it is Archaic Period (8000BC-1000BC) and Woodland Period (1000BC-1000AD). These Peoples knew nothing of the unfortunate greed, selfishness and hatred we speak of. They left the memory of their People behind because they traced a line in this world… just as we do. But the things I live with (spoons, plates, tools) are certainly NOT the things I LIVE FOR. They tell about me, yet the things which I hold sacred live forward in my sons. Again, I appreciate and understand your heart. Ben / Indian Trace

[@pamcolechadwell1302]

I live in east TN, born and raised here! And yes I have Native American blood in me on my Mother's side. Trail of tears is very close to me. and my heart bleeds every time I hear about it I can't even go near. My family had to tell the government people back in the day's they were black dutch to keep them from taking her family out to the desert back in the 20 and 30 maybe im not sure the date. Take them away from the only lives they new to make them be Educated live and breath the white man way's! . ok I can't talk about this anymore! I'm sorry if I offended you I just came across your page and watched a few video's. And I got upset! Thanks Pam

[@indiantrace371]

I definitely understand. Be well and go slow, Ben

[@michaelhedgepeth5106]

OMG, i dont like sayn or a printin that type mess BUT. MAN ! I'D SURE NEED OXYGEN, SIP PA'S WISKEY OR A HAMMER SMACK UP SIDE THE HEAD ! only smooth tool ive ever found was game ball an half polished axe...

[@michaelhedgepeth5106]

Thanks guys ! WOW !

[@indiantrace371]

Indeed! You will come across them!