# Identify this Native American relic.

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 8, 2016, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-native-american-relic/754260 "2016-05-08T01:26:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Post date:** [May 9, 2016, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-native-american-relic/754260/21 "2016-05-09T21:30:33Z")

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Maybe the intended prey _was_ humans. Native Americans went to war, too, just like us, and they used weapons for it.

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**Post date:** [May 9, 2016, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-native-american-relic/754260/22 "2016-05-09T22:43:06Z")

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> [@TriPolar](#):
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> That would leave panthers and humans as the largest prey I know about in that area. And it’s pretty big too, so maybe you are alluding to it being more for protection than hunting?

You are thinking too recent. Way too big for people or panthers. That was a thrusting point, used on extra-large game. Bison later, bigger things earlier. Stuff that would only find early arrows an annoyance.

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**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-native-american-relic/754260/23 "2016-05-11T05:00:15Z")

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Bison were present in Georgia until 16th or 17th century. Black bears were on the menu. Giant ground sloths (grizzly size) were here until, what, 10k years ago. When did the last mammoths go? Glyptodon?

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**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-native-american-relic/754260/24 "2016-05-11T06:38:59Z")

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> [@Si\_Amigo](#):
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> …And I’d call it an artifact, not a relic…

Christ, y’all are a pedantic bunch. In these parts we’ve always called them relics. Maybe it’s a regionalism, but Google “Indian relics” and you’ll get plenty of hits.

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**Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-native-american-relic/754260/25 "2016-05-11T15:04:53Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> Maybe the intended prey _was_ humans. Native Americans went to war, too, just like us, and they used weapons for it.

Not exactly concealed carry. 🙂

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**Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-native-american-relic/754260/26 "2016-05-11T15:31:44Z")

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> [@Spoke](#):
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> Bison were present in Georgia until 16th or 17th century. Black bears were on the menu. Giant ground sloths (grizzly size) were here until, what, 10k years ago. When did the last mammoths go? Glyptodon?

Don’t forget elk.

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