"Wow, this is so crazy," Rolph said in a statement. Already primed to look for pointy objects underwater, Rolph found a stone spear and immediately alerted the professors running the trip. "They were ecstatic," she recalled.
The stone point is likely 3,000 to 4,500 years old. (Image credit: Mary Baldwin University)
The field trip was part of an ecology course led by Mary Baldwin University faculty members who had secured a permit from the state to explore the barrier islands off the Eastern Shore, the southern part of the Delmarva Peninsula that includes most of Delaware and parts of Virginia and Maryland.
"The set of circumstances that came together that made this possible is quite unbelievable," Paul Callo, a biology professor at Mary Baldwin University who was co-leading the trip, said in the statement. "The tide was coming in, so the spear point was soon to be buried."
RELATED STORIESWhen Rolph showed Callo the artifact, he was "truly at a loss for words," he said. "It is certainly awe-inspiring to see and touch something that was made by human hands thousands of years ago."
Rolph was fine with not keeping the spearpoint. "That's how you get cursed!" she said.
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