A few years ago we bought an old house and knocked it down built

Ahh great story. It makes me remember the fact that Incas colonized Easter Island.

>>3035862
Are you being serious? I can't tell, I don't come here often mate

If /his/ can't help does anyone know how I could find out how long these things were buried. I mean there was nothing on the land for kilometers until they built the houses. And these don't seem to be Aboriginal carvings, but I could be wrong.

Do you live in a place where native cultures made things that look like that? Because that might change things. But going off of absolutely nothing, those look like tourist trinkets (are the eyes rhinestones?), and they weren't buried very deep, so they probably weren't there for very long.

Exactly how long is basically impossible to say, unless you know they're prehistoric and fit a temporally diagnostic type. You've basically given us nothing, so it's not like someone is magically going to be able to answer your specific question. If they really are souvenirs, the best you'll be able to find out is when fake Polynesian stuff was really popular. The son not knowing about them doesn't really mean anything; there also might have been something nearby before 1962 that you're not aware of.

>>3035918
We live in South Australia, the council said there was nothing on the land, Australia is pretty isolated in some parts, there was nothing around before the housing went up "apparently". Maybe there is no way of really knowing, as you said.

They were 500 down in the ground, which does seem shallow, but the earth here is like dense clay, that's why I had to remove a good amount of it to put soil for a garden. Oh well thanks for you help mate

>>3035918
>Do you live in a place where native cultures made things that look like that?


The only natives to Australia are Aboriginals, but they don't look like Aboriginal carvings.

>>3035918
Someone from /x/ said the eyes are mother of pearl. They're not rinestones no way

>>3035849
>hey /his/ I am an idiot who found some garbage

Cool

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>>3035849
>living on ancient Indian burial grounds

Good luck on being spooked.

>>3035849
Are the made out of wood? Wood doesn't last a long time buried in soil.

>>3036019
Yes they are wood carvings.

>>3035898
contact your local museum or uni or something, do you want your hand held

>>3035949
>South Australia
Yeah, then those are almost certainly tourist souvenirs that someone buried for some reason, apparently in the 1960s or 1970s. Maybe the son did it and doesn't remember. Again, we have nothing to go on, so there's no way to be certain.

Why do you even care? Like someone else said, you found some old junk buried in a backyard; that's not really uncommon.

Those are in the New Zealand Maori style. Either you / someone who buried them is jooking us, or you have made a landmark discovery in regards to Pacific Aboriginal seafaring.

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>>3036198
Junk! Ok well I guess one man's junk is another mans treasure I'm fond of the little things.

>>3036234
I'm not joking, the only people, other than the owner who could have burred them there would be the people who built the houses, but why would they do that?

The Owners were Italian and have no interest in Maori style carvings.

>>3036198
And if that's junk, then so is everything. When does something become junk, when its buried in the ground, I don't get your Logic.

Those look like they were taken straight out of a mare. Could be valuable, but I'm not exactly an appraiser. A lot of Maori emigrated to Australia so it's not unbelievable to find something like that.

It could also be some gift shop junk, hard to tell. It's definitely Maori though.

>>3036436
*Out of a marae

Did you buy the house from the Brady Bunch?

>>3036436
No way it was from a gift shop, Australia was only colonized 200 odd years ago. These things are hand carved and rough, not mass produced. Given that there was nothing in the area before the houses were first built in 1962 who knows how old they are.

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>>3036436
They are actually quite soft to touch, as you can see here the wood decaying

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>>3036436
Little one

>>3035849
Mate. I'm assuming your in NZ. If you're not, then then they're fake.

If you are then they're still probably fake. Wood doesn't last that long underground.

Also the two tiki are from two different regions. The larger one has a different style than the smaller one. So they were carved by two different marai.

They're not worth too much. Pretty cool find tho.

>>3035849
Mate they're NZ Maori carvings. Since you're from Australia they're not native. The eyes are made from paua shell, but they've lost colour from exposure.

They're from two different tribes from the different style of carving. The larger one is from the Waikato region I think.

Either way they're not worth much, they're probably reproductions, but if they were real they'd be less than 200 years old. Probably less because the Maori had no means to preserve their totems till the euro's got here

>>3037183

Polynesians were more than capable of traveling from NZ or whatever to Australia. In fact, they most likely did.

>>3037289
Incas were capable of traveling from SA to Polynesian islands. In fact, they most likely did.

>>3037311

Well no not really, they had zero naval tradition.

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>>3037327
Mochica had naval tradition, yeah. And they got conquered by Incas in the XV century.

The oral tradition was written by chroniclers. They said that Tupac Yupanqui colonized two isles and came back leaving some of their men to rule them.

>>3037169
Im in Australia.