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Offline DustinDees

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are these knappable
« on: March 25, 2009, 01:55:36 pm »
my work is built on old riverbed as is most of the town. a few days ago i started digging rocks up before work in an empty lot next to the parking lot. started banging rocks together and a cart pusher said "hey man if you need a lighter, all you got to do is ask" lmao. anyway i got a rather ugly geode (gave it away, all fractured quartz) and this stuff. is any of this knappable? sure its fun knocking sharp pieces of rock off these, but can i make them into points?
p.s. all of the broken pieces are where i chipped the rock, i know some doesnt look that way.
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Re: are these knappable
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2009, 03:01:53 pm »
My opinion... take it for what its worth.

knappable to make a nicely finished arrow head - nope. no concoidial fracture.
but knappable to make a tool or scraper yes.

Keep banging them together. you'll find one and have some fun.
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Re: are these knappable
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2009, 05:24:19 pm »
That's some rough looking rock. I agree with Wade. That rock will work with wooden billets, and you can make some bigger points/axes, etc. but you're probably not going to get anything refined looking out of it.
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Re: are these knappable
« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2009, 08:45:01 pm »
thank you guys for the reply. after i posted this i went to moms farmhouse and found some (what i believe to be) chert. got similar smaller stones to chip properly. but this sucker is tough. will get more of it when i have more time to play in the hills.
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Re: are these knappable
« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2009, 09:40:18 pm »
 Like Wade and Steve said, naw, it looks like Niess. A silicified slate.
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« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2009, 11:22:22 am »

    Don't listen to these guys.....next they will be asking you to ship them some of it.....seen this before! :-\ I would try to work a point out of that stuff, when you get one, post it. :o Show these con men up... ;D
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Re: are these knappable
« Reply #6 on: March 26, 2009, 04:26:37 pm »
  How many boxes of that good chert you left here you want, Brian? ;D
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Re: are these knappable
« Reply #7 on: March 27, 2009, 06:35:40 pm »
Hey Look! He's just gotten the basics right there. All those spalls look like perfect reproductions of Olduwan tools. Oldivai would be proud of him!!!  ;D
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Re: are these knappable
« Reply #8 on: March 28, 2009, 07:28:00 pm »
That second rock looks like silicified limestone.  I have some that looks like that.
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