Seaside Heights artifact: Woman Finds 1000-Year-Old Artifact

Courtesy of the New Jersey State Museum

Seaside Heights artifact: Woman Finds 1000-Year-Old Artifact -       A jersey woman recently stumbled  upon   an  rare spearhead  exactly about  10,000  to  11,000  many years  old,  As outlined by  experts  who  believe  ones  ancient artifact  will probably  hold clues  in  prehistoric life  for the  Americas.
The projectile point  are   screened   the  past Tuesday  via  curators  on the  New Jersey State Museum  immediately after  Audrey Stanick —  an  58-year-old resident  connected with  Lanoka Harbor, New Jersey —  created   your current  discovery  in  Oct.  6   though   transporting   the  stoll  in  Seaside Heights beach  in  her sister  looking for  sea glass  right after   a  recent storm.

“I noticed  The idea   because   The item   \'m  very dark  AS WELL AS  shiny,  AND   MY OWN  sister  via  Florida  whom  likes  to  collect sharks’ teeth taught me  to be able to  always  look  out  pertaining to  dark  AND  shiny  factors   at the  beach,” Stanick said. “Then,  i  remembered  a good   son   intended   a great  similar discovery last year,  and so   i   achieved it   inside  contact  from the  museum.”

Speak  to be able to  ABC, Stanick said she “had  a  experience” watching  sole   of an  state museum’s curators study  ones  spearhead  at  Tuesday.

“I looked  from   This  under  your  microscope, took measurements  throughout  calipers  AND  another colleague determined  ones  point  are   designed  out  associated with  flint,”  your current  museum’s assistant curator Dr. Gregory Lattanzi told ABC News  at  Friday. “It’s  a great  pretty rare find.  You will find  actually professional excavations  to  try  and get   points   such as  these,  consequently   in order to   become   straight down   your  shore  AND   look at   That  washed up  will be  pretty incredible.”

Lattanzi said  that the  flint,  that\'ll be  between 10,00  for you to  11,000  years  old,  can be   single   of your  older artifacts he’s seen  from the  Paleo-Indian period. He  extra   the  spearhead  \'m  likely  taken   via  semi-nomadic natives  exactly who  continuously sharpened  the  stone  to help  hunt animals  including  deer  AS WELL AS  ancient caribou.

The artifact  can be   furthermore  “significant  since the   my spouse and i   currently  have another piece  connected with  evidence  by  prehistoric habitation sites  by  land  before  exposed but  right now  covered  throughout  water,” Lattanzi explained. Stanick’s “finding  can   assist   people   apply for a   superior  idea  of   only  how far  these kinds of  sites  can be  located out  on the  ocean.”

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