Woman Finds Prehistoric Object On Seaside Heights Beach

Audrey Stanick of Lanoka Harbor spent some time meandering on a Seaside Heights beach earlier this month, searching for pieces of sea glass after Hurricane Joaquin and a nasty Nor’easter passed out to sea. She thought she might get lucky.

She did. She poked around some shells, bent down and found something even better, according to app.com

“My sister, who collects sharks’ teeth, taught me to look for dark-colored objects,” Stanick said, in a statement from the New Jersey State Museum. “So when I saw what I initially thought was an arrowhead, I picked it up.”

It wasn’t an arrowhead. It was a Paleoindian projectile at least 10,000 years old, according to Gregory Lattanzi, the museum’s assistant curator of archaeology and ethnography.

The object is not an arrowhead, simply because arrowheads came centuries later.

Lattanzi and other colleagues all agreed it was a significant find.

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