by sysadmin | Dec 28, 2014 | Blog
Opalized “conk” wood from Royal Peacock Opal Mine, Virgin Valley, Nevada. 4 inches long x 2.5 inches wide This piece was mined prior to 1962 and won best in show at the Tucson Gem and Mineral show in 1990. This is ‘conk,’ which is an opal replacement of...
by sysadmin | Dec 24, 2014 | Blog
BRONZE MACE- Balkan Peninsula, Macedonia. Near East Bronze age: 3,300 – 1,200 BC. 4 cm tall x 5.5 cm wide. The development of pottery permitted the development of metal smelting, starting with copper–a relatively common metal with a low melting point. The...
by sysadmin | Dec 22, 2014 | Blog
Oldowan Pebble Tool- Gona, Ethiopia. 5.5 cm x 3.8 cm The Oldowan is the oldest-known stone tool industry. Dating as far back as 2.5 million years ago, these tools are a major milestone in human evolutionary history: the earliest evidence of cultural behavior. Homo...
by sysadmin | Dec 22, 2014 | Blog
Petrified wood- Araucariaceae Family South America Permian Period. 2.5″ across the face. The checkered pattern that one can see is usually the result of charring. Fire investigators call this pattern “alligatoring,” which describes the look of this piece to a...
by sysadmin | Dec 17, 2014 | Blog
Mousterian Flint Spearhead (point) with reduced end for hafting- Rock Shelter, Dordogne ( Vezere) France. Mousterian Period- 150,000- 30,000 years ago. 4.5 cm tall … This is a remarkably rare hafted Neanderthal spear head made from gem golden Flint. The...
by sysadmin | Dec 10, 2014 | Blog
Neanderthal Spear Head- Exposed Site – Sahara Desert, North Africa. Middle Paleolithic Period (80,000-40,000 years ago) 7 cm tall This Middle Paleolithic stone tool was fashioned out of quartzite in the Mousterian tradition
by sysadmin | Dec 10, 2014 | Blog
Petrified wood -Araucaria- Canadian River, Oklahoma. 6.5″ across A seldom seen location
by sysadmin | Aug 5, 2014 | Blog
90 pound Silver Ingot- Recovered from the Nuestra Senora De Atocha. On September 6th, 1622, the treasure galleon of King Phillip IV’s Tierra Firme Fleet sank near the Florida Keys during a severe Hurricane. Two hundred sixty people perished and tons of silver,...
by sysadmin | Aug 5, 2014 | Blog
LURISTAN BRONZE AXE HEAD- Mesopotamia(Near East) Bronze age 3600-1200 BC. 12 cm across. The term LURISTAN references artifacts made by a society of semi-nomadic people that once lived in the mountainous region of Northwest Iran. Little is known of this ancient culture...
by sysadmin | Jun 25, 2014 | Blog
Exceedingly rare Petrified Wood-Hermanophyton-McElmo Creek, Colorado. Upper Jurassic. 5.5 ” across The light colored periphery is a mixture of cortical bundles, leaf traces, ramentum and odd club shaped structures (the function of which is unknown.) In other...
