It’s a learned style of art, and it takes a minute before you can actually recognize i. I still learn more every day-that’s why it’s tough to write a narrative or put my finger on a culture or people. It took me four weeks of continuous study just to see it. The prehistoric Age is underappreciated. When stone was the social media humans, worked it. These stones are the first photo albums.

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You are correct, it's a learned art. The people who don't care to learn the art can take a walk. It's definitely legitimate, I do the same thing here in Virginia. I find many of the same animals in the same areas, just like you, but only in areas known to have been frequented by natives in the past, meaning that you probably won't find these in areas that you haven't also found arrowheads, hammerstones, axe heads, tomahawk, etc. Here, I have found many buffalo, frogs, fish, birds, quartz guerrilla skull, turtles, sharks, and many more. I have about 75, and a huge assortment of various tools, knives made of bone and stone. A few paleo Indian points, I was able to carbon date some material in the same area to 6827 years.. Thanks for your video..

Curious about what company you used for your carbon dating? I have an email in the channel description if you’d like to discuss.

Thank you, don’t let the doubters deter you from your good Archaeological investigations. I have pieces of flint from 40 years of collecting, I never saw the faces on them until I started finding Primitive Rock Art. It is very sad that there is a treasures trove of rich prehistoric peoples, just being ignored. I have pieces that took me 6 months to notice the profiles. By the way, that “fat little bird” to me on first impression was a chick coming out of its shell, which would be very profound to say the least. I have to mow, then Im back in the River…

Thank you Gabriel!

Thank you Skull!

It’s all about believing. Every single etching, upside down and right side up. Every little paint Mark. Every little detail. These were mastered over hundreds of years by people who survived nature and couldn’t read. They were masters of stone, masters of the environment

As always, thank you for your comment. It’s a wonderful one and it gets me all fired up! 😅

We don’t know. we know they are very old, lot has been learned since this last video. I hope you’ll join us in the research.

For sure, this one is perserved I believe because it was packed in the clay with the rest of the artifacts. I bet you we could carbon date that, but there’s so much charcoal already in the clay balls. That’s how I really know, and how I really began to learn because I didn’t know what any of the stones were at first, but I knew that they were packed in these clay balls for a reason. It’s really what made me start to believe and therefore see and interpret the art.

Looks like a hickory nut.

So glad! The pleasure is mine. I hope you find some this spring.

Well put Jack. Despite these being packed in clay, separated, and stored certain paints did not last. Green for example faded- All those little clay coins with pinwheels break right when we touch them.

I find in over half of mine, what I thought was an imperfection is actually cut like that to build a different picture from a different angle. Different animals, faces, tiny hunt scene picts... When you really get a good one, and I know you have plenty, I can promise the multifaceted perfection of these things will blow your mind if studied fully.

Thanks for the info and for that compliment at the end. Once we start to see the art we can find it everywhere and it says a lot about the population and time they lived here.

Beautiful, that’s excellent. I used to live in Fayetteville Tennessee, but that was before I went outside! 🗿🤷👍

@FacesintheStone I'm in East TN. Almost shouting distance to VA and NC, KY on a good day. I'm fairly sure it's the geographic center of the universe.

@@pareidoliarocks I’m with you there. I’m about to go out to Texas because Texas doesn’t give a damn!!! They have the Gault site. Face Stones? they’re everywhere! I’m going to make it happen down there, because North Carolina archeology has failed me.

@FacesintheStone It's frustrating. I'm putting my hopes on earning an introduction to the right elders or someone who has actual knowledge, and can offer some guidance. I think your stuff is as good as it gets. It just seems like nobody cares? Well, or maybe they actually "know better"?

Or mound site… it’s tough because North Carolina has always maintained that there are no mounds despite having a state park called town Creek Indian mound…

@@FacesintheStone I have 2 caves with springs and mounds and the stone effigies are laying everywhere. The big rocks laying around have all been shaped and the images carved in some cannot be seen clearly unless a pic is taken. I have not found any arrowheads only stones. I dont think it was hunted.

Some of these sites are ceremonial, so any type of weapon will be completely gone from it. When you find a ceremonial site, that’s when you find the really beautiful art. It’s different at every location. Each place takes a fresh look to interpret, and I find that we become experts in our local characters. One of the popular characters from North Carolina is Squirrel Girl. 🐿️

@@FacesintheStone I have a huge rock partially covered with 3 inches or more of dirt and moss and i was digging dirt from the top of it with my fingers and found a bird necklace. Its about 2 inches overall with a pretty big hole in the middle, the unusual thing about it is that its iron. It has to be the hopewell or later tribe for it to be iron. I am discovering things myself that im not sure is known. Im finding some glass animal effigys. I wish i knew an expert that would not rob me because ive been around alot of indian stuff in my time and this is new to me

Start making videos, I’d love to see the necklace. That sounds really cool. Ancient aren’t all over the world is the same, it’s really complex and complicated. It’s all like a puzzle but I think we’re figuring it out. People try to send me stuff but I really don’t want anything else, I don’t believe that these effigies belong to any single person, but to everybody. That being said, until it gets recognition, it’s kind of up to us to keep both the sites and the stones safe, especially the ceremonial walls and shaman structures. 🗿☀️🗣️😳🧏‍♀️✅🧐🤓

Thank you 🙏

Have you ever seen any faces on them? For me at all started with the birds, and then I started to understand that they were actually faces as well… each one of these things is like a small little photo album

Yes I have some pictures even

Incredible Thomas. You could send in your finds to the rock art Museum out in Canada. They can put your specimens on display there digitally. Really great organization.

The Stone Age was underestimated.

In the words of Paleo Mt Man “I once saw a portrait in an eyeball.” ♥️

Thank you I appreciate the tip! I’m glad you enjoy the videos. I’ve done that in a couple installments like this one: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z9l9m7yXusjHaaM.html

The thing about unquestionable.. it becomes a matter of not knowing exactly what you can see, and what you cannot when you can see everything. Every single one of these is indeed one of them. If I were to talk about all the human faces, and all the other smaller birds people would run… however, once you see the art, other people can collaborate with you and read the same images that you do. Not everybody can see it, but it takes every single person training; it’s like learning a language.

@@FacesintheStone I’m just not seeing the birds that well, although I will say that I agree that they are indeed birds. I really enjoyed the one with the faces. I saw those as plain as day, and that’s what piqued my interest and made me subscribe. I’ve always loved looking for arrowheads. That alone amazes me lol.

@@Kidd23Kidds it really helps to hear your perspective and what I can do to make these videos better. Thank you so much.

@@Kidd23Kidds and I’m with you, just the arrowheads or pieces of pottery bowl are amazing and that’s all I expected to see. I don’t think it’s fair that I had to find out about all this other stuff!!!

I’d like to call it a “complicated, multi faceted style of art.” 😁👁️🗿🦆🥳👍

@@FacesintheStone How about Multi-Facial? "The Face of a Rock."

Well, of course, we have mammoth and birds and owls and according to other members of our community beavers, wildcats, there’s even a squirrel muskrat looking character. They are faces, but there’s so much more than just the face we know (of course I am just rambling) , there’s the hair, there’s the ornaments, there’s the braids, there’s the feathers. It goes deep! Some of it is a matter of skill, in seeing the details and patterns-other key is just belief. I like to say that believe the art goes into infinity, because it does.

@@FacesintheStone I agree with everything you just wrote.

Some things are by chance, other things are by design and that’s why I try to document where I pick these out of because yes, it’s very unlikely to find hundreds of stones with faces on them all in one single area. Sure I could see one time, maybe even two! at some point, we have to acknowledge the preponderance of evidence that yourself and others have documented and shared with one another through these social medias.

Good eyes! It’s not fair that we get to see this beautiful art, so what other choice do we have other than to share it?

Yes sir, Georgia is part of the south eastern ceremonial complex. Lots of ancient stuff out there.

@@FacesintheStone imagine what’s out on the continental shelf…that’s where the action was

There’s action here, too, people go to Scotland, Italy, the Andes mountains. We have the oldest mountain range in the world, and what we mistakenly take for geological formations are creations from humans and hominoids past, our ancestors, our history.