B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for June 14, 2019

“..and also that your metal detector is nothing more than a flat rock attached to a stick that has a length of thin vine wrapped around it.”

Timing is everything.

Okay, NightGaunt. That gives you a time frame.

Just bury it someplace so a man or woman can find it in 70,000 years and they will say Aliens left it behind.

Even if there is no iron around, they are very good at finding the old aluminum free-range pull tabs.

With those early clam detectors, you need to get the settings just right.

He’s RIGHT. Try “Gold Mining.”

Seems like a patently foolish idea for its time.

Talk about putting the cart before the horse.

Huh? Oh yeah! You’re right….

It’s not a metal detector. It’s a “mettle” detector.

A stone metal detector? Definitely ahead of its time. Tell the aliens you got it from that your not ready for it yet.

Iron age = 70k years – and battery power just slightly longer.

Of course this comic strip regularly bends or outright breaks the historical record, so no worries there.

Batteries, did he remember batteries? (Gold/Silver/Iron) would still be found – Batt… no wait… (70,000 years…. riiiigghhhtttt)… In the words of Emily Litella – “Never mind”.

Ah, the paradoxes of time travel and anachronism. . .

In a world where humans and dinosaurs coexist, anything is possible.

Now if it will detect plastic, you got something.

That thing got a deflector? Notice in the first panel the water is parted around the detector base…

Maybe he is looking for meteorites?

The new Iron Age maybe. But the technology allowed you to even know that. Too early, but it is failing in spots.

PC or genre savvy NPC?

Question: Aren’t metal detectors made of metal? Why don’t they detect theirselves?