How do i get a suspected mousterian neanderthal spear piont found in california authenticated in California

Find a Californian Neanderthal or failing that ask Trump.

go to a university to the paleo or anth department peeps to authenticate

Sounds like you need to google a local museum or two with a question.. Failing that a local Universirty with an anthropology dept😷

I'm sure it's a cool find but Neanderthal? There isn't even solid proof they were in CA. But there's a ton of indigenous people, over many of thousands of years, who used spears. Finding it in a dry riverbed would make sense.

Not likely. Wrong geography.

You should photograph it before you touch it, in situ.

Call San Francisco's California Academy of Sciences, and ask to speak to someone from their Natural History department, and ask them.

Not sure - but that would qualify as "treasure" over here and I would have to turn it in to the police...

What makes you think it is neanderthal and not just Native American?

Take it to Elizabeth warren 😁

I'll have to look it up again, but that would put the settlement of the Americas a good 5 digits before the earliest possible time archaeologist have entertained

FYI, Neanderthals were never in North America.

MOUSTERIAN: 80,000 - 40,000 year