Lee Olsen Wrote:
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> Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> > I've just realized there's more money in
> Science
> > fiction than there is in writing about
> science
> > fact
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> Posted by: Rick Baudé
> Date: May 23, 2018 04:48AM
> "Hominids were in Southern Calif. over 100KYA
> Calicos, Cerutti, and my stone tools prove it."
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> Since you haven't made any money with this bit of
> science fiction, let's see what sort of test can
> be applied to your tools to turn a baseless
> fact-free claim into actual science (given this is
> a science board).
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> "Since 1992, Northwest Research Obsidian Studies
> Laboratory (NWROSL) has provided analytical
> services for the trace element provenance studies
> of obsidian and fine-grained volcanic (FGV)
> artifacts and the geoarchaeological and
> geochemical investigation of obsidian sources."
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> Sourcing can be done on FGV, which from your
> deleted photos, IIRC, appears to be the material
> that the flea market hand axes are made.
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> From the NWROSL price sheet "The XRF laboratory
> holds an extensive collection of
> geologic obsidian source reference samples from
> the Far Western United States, Hawaii, Canada,
> Mexico, and the Western Mediterranean, and we
> maintain a very active source sampling and
> analysis research program."
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> Also the prices for their services are quite
> reasonable, about the cost for a day trip for two
> to the San Diego museum to test one sample. This
> test would at least get one into the realm of
> science and out of the realm of story telling.
> What if the test turns up negative and the
> material is not in the NWROSL data base? That
> would still be usable data because it could
> demonstrate where the axe didn't come from. No
> guarantees of course, but not to do available
> testing is story telling.

Okay. How about I'll submit the sample and you pay for the test?
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