Many years ago I found this arrowhead fragment at the District 38 country school in Nebraska which I attended as a grade-schooler. I was very excited and showed it to our teacher who didn’t realize what it was, much to my surprise. We had seen many arrowheads on display at the school in the past, and I recognized the notches at the base.
Then another “treasure” struck my eye. On one corner, a tiny round ring appeared with spokes seeming to radiate from its center. It was the impression made by the stem of a “sea lily,” also known as a crinoid, one of the oldest known types of marine fossils.
Not only was this piece of flint an artifact, it was also a time capsule with tokens from the first appearance of complex life on earth, the time when the indigenous people roamed the plains, and the present day. The past had been carried to the present, written in stone.
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