[meteorite-list] New Meteorite used as Neolithic Tool

From: Orrin <orrlarue_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 12:25:02 -0700
Message-ID: <AANLkTim2eg-9n_vPh1tzdWoNRQoCvKJk0kMbdU2zBofM_at_mail.gmail.com>

Very impressive indeed. I just went through my inventory of Neolithic
tools (collected legally) and all of mine are made from basalt. Darn.
 I wish my 70 pound matate was an OC Really cool find. Phil,you are
correct this is a discoidal.

Orrin La Rue
Surprise, AZ

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Michael Gilmer <meteoritemike at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm no expert, but I concur with Phil. ?It does like the discoidal
> shown in the link.
>
> Either way, it's a super find. ?Congrats to Philippe. ?:)
>
> Best regards,
>
> MikeG
>
>
> On 1/5/11, JoshuaTreeMuseum <joshuatreemuseum at embarqmail.com> wrote:
>> It looks a lot more like a cupstone or a discoidal than a hammerstone.
>> Doesn't look anything like an anvil. An anvil would have a flat ?surface. A
>> hammerstone generally wouldn't have a depression in its middle. We have a
>> Campo in the museum ?that was used as an anvil, I have a picture of it
>> somewhere....
>>
>>
>> Cupule:
>> http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a6/NutterPen759.pdf/page1-240px-NutterPen759.pdf.jpg&imgrefurl=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupstone&usg=__4CsS3wfr9tZ1FJumz8AO0nbnuSg=&h=196&w=240&sz=8&hl=en&start=11&sig2=QJZqojW36XnfMRWDw4as_g&zoom=0&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=oUb8AvV5zA9lMM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=110&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcupstone%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26tbs%3Disch:1&ei=XLMkTbDzMMP78AbBz6XRDQ
>>
>> Discoidal:
>> http://www.relicshack.com/Details.aspx?Id=14943
>>
>> Phil Whitmer
>> -----------------------------
>>
>> Hi List,
>>
>> A new meteorite (Bouanane) was added to the Met Bulletin yesterday and
>> in the description it says the meteorite was used as a hammer/anvil
>> tool in the Neolithic period.
>>
>> This meteorite came out of Morocco courtesy of Philippe Thomas. Does
>> anyone have a photo of this specimen? I'm very curious to see what it
>> looks like.
>>
>> http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=52888
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> MikeG
>>
>>
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