Of course, the other side of that coin is that we may be able to tell you that the oddly shaped rock you found actually is a 7,000-year-old stone axe or a mastodon tooth or a prehistoric hat.
So if you think you may have found something interesting, give us a call and we'll give you our opinion as to what you've got. And if it looks like a dinosaur egg, we'll have Bob Glotzhober, our Senior Curator of Natural History, come over and take a look at it.
Here's a link to #2:
http://ohio-archaeology.blogspot.com/2012/02/top-ten-reasons-why-archaeology-rocks_16.html
Brad Lepper
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Thanks to our data entry specialist Juli Six for impersonating a young woman who is convinced that she found a Paleolithic hand axe when it's actually just a rock! That's going above and beyond the call of duty, Juli!
This controversial subject is of interest to many, and would be a good topic for Dr. Lepper's occasional column in the Columbus Dispatch, which also allows online comments from the public. An open discussion of the assessment by geologists, petrologists, and other physical scientists of some of the "just a rock" finds in Ohio would be fun and informative.
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