ARTIFACT VS  GEOFACT A closer look at what is natural and what is human produced.
Channel: James Cunkle
Date: 2021-01-12

What is an artifact and was is just a natural formation in stone?  Sometimes the difference is subtle and difficult to determine.   There’s a lot of bad video out there on youtube  where good people are showing off their rock collections and declaring the stones to effigies or artifacts of some kind. They are not.  Mother nature creates a lot of wonderful and interesting formations in stone that can fool even the best trained archeologist.  

This video presents three stones, two are artifacts and one is not.  To further confuse the issue, the geo-fact  or naturally occurring stone was then utilized by the prehistoric people to crack nuts or grind pigments.  The geo-fact  then and only then, becomes an artifact….after it has been modified by humankind.