Rare obsidian artifact found in Edmonton couple’s backyard, puzzling experts

That’s interesting I dug up something very similar to this in Toronto, double the size it’s still in the backyard I will have to take a closer look. I thought it was a piece of old charcoal or a petrified timber but now I’m wondering if it’s obsedian!

I would have kept it obsidian is great for warding off negativity and bad energy and evil spirits…

I found a chunk that size im yard when i was a kid living in Sarnia Ontario. Mid 70's

There also used in rituals used to keep track of trade.

Sounds like she planted it there

As cool as this story is, if it was my piece of obsidian, i dont know that i would want to part with it so easily for research purposes.

That rock is a trade item. Could have bought 5 squas. It is enough cutlery for a small villiage for years.

Looks like the asteroid (rock) off the movie Joe dirt. 😂

Get the rock back. Don’t give it away to a museum‼️‼️🙄

First nations traded materials. Im from Nelson BC on Kootenay lake and myself, my mother and my grandfather have found arrowheads here made of obsidian and there is no local source. It came from somewhere else…maybe Edmonton.

Hippies left it from the 1960's. 🔲🕳

It’s not remarkable that someone in the modern day brought that in there vehicle to Canada.

Yt people on Turtle Island surprised that their homes are built over stolen indigenous land🤦🏻‍♀️ news flash, ALL OF YOUR HOMES ARE. You’re still on stolen land. As soon as they said obsidian, I instantly thought present day Wyoming or Idaho because there is literally obsidian EVERYWHERE over there. Speaking of Idaho, I remember going there when I was 9 on a family vacation in the 90s. I never knew raci$m until I got there. People kept callling me “Pocahontas” even though I am SE Asian😑 and when we drove around looking for a hotel to stay in for the night, all the yt hotel owners refused us- one place was even mean to my dad for asking if they had any vacancies. We ended up closer to a reservation where the indigenous folks welcomed us to stay. But you know, “Oo look! I’m a pretend archeologist! now I can fulfill my colonial dreams of unearthing pieces of culture my ancestors massacred!” Honestly never known a more dense community of people.

Plot twist, last homeowner was a mineral and rock hound and put rocks in their garden…

Couldnt be that someone merely tossed it there… naw….

😂

“Pre contact people” 😂 where I’m from we call them First Nations

could have been brought from another area during prehistoric times or even brought back from a holiday trip relatively recently

Damn stone age man dropped the rock out of the reed and grass backpack