STONE AGE ICE FISHING, OBSIDIAN WORKS AS AN ICE DRILL

 ME CATCHING A FISH BEFORE THE FREEZE.

 FIRST SNOW, WOLF TRACKS

 ICICLES FORMING

 MAKING AN IGLOO

 ICE IN THE TREES

 LAKE FROZEN OVER

 DOGIE AND ME LOOKS LIKE LAKE IS  FROZEN ENOUGH TO WALK ON

 OBSIDIAN KNIFE WORKS GREAT FOR DRILLING.

 FUNNY PHOTO OF ME

EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL EVIDENCES FOR ALIEN FLINTKNAPPING (THE ALIEN STONE-AGE)

EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL EVIDENCES FOR ALIEN FLINTKNAPPING (THE ALIEN  STONE-AGE)

By Ray Harwood

ALIEN, MARTIAN FLINTKNAPPER

      In 1999, to the best of my memory, I had the good fortune to be sitting by a camp fire in the woods near Portland, Oregon.  There were several quite notable men of science, and an array of students. We were in sort of relaxed contemplation after a day of experimental flintknapping. Most of us had our gaze fixed upon a abnormally bright star. After a long spell we started discussing among each other which planet it mat be.  Just about that time the light darted in a zig zag pattern across the cosmos. The speed was not describable as it traversed the horizon in a fraction of a second. The only word uttered was Dr, Callahan whom lightly enumerated “hmmmm”  and then  the group burst into laughter. Were they  getting a free knapping lesson?

     Two years later, in the forest above Lake Tahoe, my sons and I were camping  beneath the trees but insight of the lake at dusk. My youngest son and I, alerted by a flash of light, looked up from the camp fire to see a massive ball of light travelling through the trees between us and the lake.  Last year I saw a green triangle of light dashing, zig zag, over the skies of the Spokane River??   Yikes one might say.   

VITRUVIAN ALIEN AFTER  DA VINCI'S MAN (BY RAY)

     In  214 BC Livy recorded flying saucers in Rome, this appears to be the first  of thousands of written accounts of extra-terrestrials throughout history (Wikipedia)  In 1920s Nikola Tesla, super genius, was confident  he had been receiving nightly radio messages from alien life forms, his laboratory assistant, Arthur Mathews, later confirmed this.  Guglielmo Marconi also made similar claims a few years later (Swartz 2001).  “Why should the earth be the only planet supporting life? It is not singular in any other respect” (Albert Einstein).  The internet has multitudes of video and photographic evidence both fake and intriguing. Ancient artifacts and art depict what appear to be flying saucers and alien life forms.

     I am not advocating alien existence one way or the other. I would be more inclined to believe there are parallel universes and these things are the result of bleeding through from one to another. In any event these mysterious technologies are very advanced, but all technologies have to develop one step at a time over long periods of time. At some point in the technical development there would have to be a cultural, technical evolution. In other words …Aliens were once stone tool makers, and if they were at some point from another time, another dimension or Mars, then they were most likely flintknappers at one point in their development. 

Ray Harwood with natural glass alien like points he made. 

Obsidian and flint are very common raw material for flintknapping:

    “Is there Obsidian on other planets? The only way to get a dacite or a rhyolite (rock that melts into obsidian) is to re-melt rocks, usually in the presence of water. We get that on Earth because we have continental crust and plate tectonics that recycle the basalt on Earth. Mars has a chance, but we don’t get felsic rocks like we find in Earth’s continental crust really anywhere else in the solar system, and therefore most of the solar system is obsidian-free” (September 19, 2014 The Earth Story Blog).

Alien Point of Flint: made by Ed Mosher

      Is there flint on other planets?  On planets like Mars, that  show that there was once some sort of water, flint may be possible.   If you think about what flint is, a type of chert  that forms in pressurized Sedimentary  limestone. Chambers in the stone get filled with a gelatinous mixture of organic silica from aquatic life, this fills the rock chambers like a mold, and forms nodules.  Mars has much evidence of water, in the form of dry river beds meandering on its’ surface.  Furthermore, evidence like the Sri Lanka Meteorite show signs of life  from outer space in the form of primitive life form fossils.  

     What flintknapping tools would have been employed by stoneage Alien?  On earth it is known that knappers now, and in ancient times, relied on sand stone cobbles as hammer stones and copper tipped pressure flakers. We do know that rocks that look like hammer stones exist on Mars.  Studies have shown that there are sedimentary rocks and forms of copper in Shalbatana paleo -lake sediments on Mars (Various: Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. 2014).

PETER BOSTROM PHOTO, TUSSINGER POINTS. LITHIC CASTING LAB.

      What type of lithic tools and weapons would have been made by stone age aliens? It is unknown what aliens to me eat or ate. Do they eat chemicals, do they get nutrients through photosynthesis or like us do they harvest plant and other biologics for food?  The type of tool required would depend on the necessity of food acquisition and or clothing. shelter needs or digging mines and caves for their survival needs.  

     In conclusion; it appears there is a good possibility that there is amble raw lithic material and  knapping tool material to facilitate flintknapping on Mars and similar planets. Was it done?  If there are, or was, truly Martians or aliens and they went through a cultural evolution sequence similar to humans, including extra-terrestrial  stone age, then yes! If Mars was once flourishing and some sort of horror transpired  upon them, and the aliens abandoned ship, perhaps we are they and the ancient astronaut theories can be contemplated and here comes a new Clovis theory!