[meteorite-list] New Meteorite used as Neolithic Tool

From: Robert Woolard <meteoritefinder_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 20:23:34 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <217609.47336.qm_at_web39602.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

I know very little about Neolithic tools from Morocco, and so, I may be totally wrong about this object. But when I personally see the term "discoidal", I immediately visualize the American Indian discoidal, an example of which Phil posted earlier.. It was used in a game called " chunkey ", and is usually a quite beautifully made, "bi-cupped stone disk" artifact. Sometimes they are drilled thru the center, but most often they are not. I have been lucky enough to find examples of each in the fields here in Arkansas that long ago were Indian village sites. Here are links to 2 examples, one drilled, one not. (These are links I found on the Net, and are not my personal collection pieces, although they very much resemble examples that I have found.)

Drilled discoidal:

http://theartifacthunter.com/images/DrilledDiscoidal.jpg

Non-drilled discoidal:

http://www.americanindian.si.edu/searchcollections/multimedia/4019/334/042.350x350.jpg


 And here is a link to the game they played using the stone:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunkey


 I agree with the opinion that this tool fashioned from a meteorite resembles the so called "nutting stone", or "cupstone". I have found several of these on ancient Indian sites as well. Unlike the beautifully crafted discoidal, they are usually quite crudely fashioned.

? Once again, I emphasize that I only know about American Indian artifacts, and I may be completely wrong about this meteorite and its correct terminology as a Neolithic tool. But if I had been lucky enough to have found this meteorite-tool IN AMERICA, I would have definitely thought it was a meteorite that was used as a "nutting stone"... NOT a "discoidal".?

???Best,
? Robert Woolard

>
> 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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