Kate hands over 8000yr old arrowhead

This afternoon we got a taxi to the Institute of Mongolian Archaeology to meet Turbat Tsagaan a professor of Bronze Age studies.
K wanted to hand over the quartz arrow head she found in the Gobi Desert last week.
It turns out to be a definite Neolithic arrowhead 8000-9000 yrs old!!!
Interestingly Turbat used the term BP which google later told us meant “before present” which is a much more scientific measure of time than BC ( before Christ) especially if u r from another religion.
Turbat said he would pass the arrowhead onto the stoneage dept as he was Bronze Age ( we think maybe the Stone Age dept don’t speak English) whereas Turbat has just come back from a conference in Germany yesterday and spoke excellent English.
Sadly his personal skills were a little limited as we were not offered a seat which was a good job because his office and building were filled with archaeological amazeball items- including a photo of a Bronze Age skeleton he had dug up from the Uglii region we had just come from- enlarge the photo of Kate and u will see it in the background!!!
Turbat said he would use the situation in his next talk as we suggested he educated the tour guides that at future finds by tourists are automatically handed in.

http://mongolianarchaeology.academia.edu/Tsagaa…

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=quartz arrow…:

K found it at the following location if ur not asleep yet!;
Umnugobi province
Bulgan Soum, close to Khavtsgait petroglyphs -
she has a bloody good eye and a good heart for wanting it to stay in Mongolia and not as a souvenir. Good spotting!!Read more