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Read more: https://www.tn.gov/environment/program-areas/arch-archaeology/state-archaeological-parks-areas/the-tennessee-state-artifact.html
TIL that Tennessee’s has a state artifcat – the Mississippian stone statue, a statue of a kneeling man carved by an unknown Native American artist between 1250-1350. It was discovered in Wilson County in 1939.
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I might be missing something, but the only other US state I could find with an official state artifact was California – it has a prehistoric state artifact, the chipped stone bear, which is estimated to be between 7000-8000 years old.
https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=25962
I so wish it really was an artif-cat.