Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: YosemiteBen on November 12, 2011, 10:02:47 pm
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Here are some shots from the obsidian case in the museum I work in. The bird points are all smaller than a quarter.
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Very cool. Last pic in the middle oblique flaked? We have a museum over on Indiana University campus in Bloomington that has some awesome displays and collections of chert and hornstone. Thanks for posting!
Tracy
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cool stuff Ben, did you make any of the ones not illeagally collected or are they all artifacts? Bub
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I know Obsid. Is the most prevalent material in the area, but how often. Are artifacts found made of flint. Or other material? Those are beautiful don't get me wrong . Just wondering. In my area the tools that take the most abuse seem to be made of the toughest stone. Or not heat treated.
Don Tower.
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Tower, I'm up north were obsidian is the prevalent material, but in the lassen complex they also used red jasper and some chert, i think most of the jasper was for ceremonial uses, Bub
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@ Bub - All artifacts - look at the dates on the cards.
@ Tower - Here is Yosemite everything seems to be Obsidian or Dacite(Grey obsidian) There were occassional trades from the coast of Cali where we do have some cherts.
Anyone cehck out Noel D Justices Books? He wrote three of them.
Stoneage Spear and Arrow Points of.....
1) California and the Great Basin
2)Desert Southwest
3) Midcontinental and Eastern US.
I have the Cali one and it is a great resource.
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Ben, I thought that they were artifacts, but the wording on some of the cards,"points such as these" just got me thinking, and thats not allways a good thing ::), Bub
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Yeah, that wording kinda threw me off too.