Emerald green artifact was 'ignored' for 80 years. It was a 'rare' 500-year-old find
The “small unassuming artifact” was found by a teenager working on his family’s Texas ranch between 1930 and 1940.
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The “small unassuming artifact” was found by a teenager working on his family’s Texas ranch between 1930 and 1940.
<p>It’s a small piece of obsidian, just over 5 centimeters long, likely found on a hard-scrabble piece of ranchland in the Texas panhandle. But when SMU anthropologist Matthew Boulanger looks at it, he gets a mental image of Spanish explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado making his way across the plains more than 470 years ago in search of a fabled city of gold.</p>
It’s a small piece of obsidian, just over 5 centimeters long, likely found on a hard-scrabble piece of ranchland in the Texas panhandle. But when SMU anthropo