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Quartzite cobble with unusual wear & damage patterns possibly caused from use #flintknapping & perhaps as a hammer for pulverizing temper or cracking hickory nuts or bones for marrow. #archaeology

Bulverde point (late Middle Archaic to early Late Archaic ca. 5000-4000 BP) made from Citronelle gravel chert I flintknapped many decades ago. The Bulverde type is found from central TX to LA. #archaeology #flintknapping

Dorsal side of medium point with long, straight stem, triangular blade & square shoulders on brown, beige & tan mottled chert.

Ventral side of medium point with long, straight stem, triangular blade & square shoulders on brown, beige & tan mottled chert.

Red & yellow jasper Citronelle gravel cobble that I've flintknapped on a bit. Both red & yellow jasper make good flake tools because they are denser than most cherts, thus hold an edge longer. #rocks #flintknapping

red, yellow & mauve jasper exposed on ~4.65 cm cobble with off-white cortex

Modern #flintknapping. Three points made of transparent quartzite, clear quartz crystal & white planar quartz. #archaeology

Tapered stem point with triangle blade, slightly expanded stem side-indented point with long triangle blade, & straight stem point with weak shoulders & long lanceolate blade

7 months ago.

Reproduction Catahoula (ca. 700-1100 CE) arrow point on yellow stained glass. #archaeology #flintknapping

Small corner-notched point with recurvate blade, wide thickened shoulders, slightly expanded stem , convex base. A drawing from Bell 1960, Plate 8F, is shown beside it.

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A variety of pine needle, straw and grass coil baskets

The grainy red jasper flakes better & there is a luster change. Now if I can just thermally alter a larger piece without it heat fracturing & spalling. #flintknapping #archaeology

I screened the fire pit ash this morning to see what became of those three chert blanks I tried to heat treat.

Yeah, you could say those chert blanks disintegrated. 😮 #Flintknapping #archaeology

Hand screen with a lot of red chert pieces

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A row of 10 modern flintknapped colored glass points in red (1), light blue (2), cobalt blue (2), aqua (2), green (1), yellow (1) & amber (1).

Lived here for 30 years but only noticed this stone on the flower bed yesterday. Signs of repeated working? A lithic core?
#flintknapping #lithics #Palaeolithic #Neolithic #Mesolithic #workedstone #workedflint #archaeology

A piece of flint with ripples on one face

A piece of flint pebble with traces of the original cortex (like bacon rind) and chipped away bits

A piece of flint with signs of having been worked

A piece of flint propped up by a fragment of green marble or granite on a book called The Quest of Seth for the Oil of Life. The flint shows signs of having been repeatedly worked on different faces

Modern made San Patrice variety St. Johns dart point on banded gray obsidian. #archaeology #flintknapping

Triangular blade point with side notches, basal ears & concave base. The gray obsidian has black streaks in it.

Abrading edges during #flintknapping, either by percussion or pressure flaking, helps prevent what we call a crushed platform, thus aiding in the generation of longer flakes & less step-fractures. These 3 images show dulling & rounding of chert edges abraded with the abrading stone. #archaeology

Left) dorsal & ventral sides of a gray to white chert biface blank & a white sandstone abrader. Right) 3 images showing the rounding & dulling.

A throwback to 2019. #Flintknapping debris from working red slag glass & a little light gray chert. #Archaeology

Faded orange tarp with red glass flake debitage & small hammerstone

Gary variety Mabin (ca. 1400 BCE-200 CE) I made from a distinct Citronelle gravel chert. #flintknapping #archaeology

Banded pale yellow, tan, beige & mottled gray point with triangular blade & strong shoulders that sweep down to a tapered stem with convex base.

@archeaids well done! Beautiful colours. Do you think you can finally remove the rest of the cortex?
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Elora (ca. 3000-1000 BCE) point I made from this distinct jasper pebble. 6/ #archaeology #flintknapping

Triangular blade, short tapered stem ending in snap, & squared shoulders. Some cortex remains in the center of one side on the point.

Here are most of the flakes from #flintknapping this small pebble & a triangular preform. 5/ #archaeology

In fact, we were able to refit about 20 flakes of one distinctly identifiable chert material at Site 22PR533. We had about 8 distinct materials that showed that we had only 15 cm of vertical migration from bioturbation.

Here is progress knapping the pebble. 4/ #archaeology #flintknapping

4 views (2 each side) showing progress on the pebble.

4 views of cortex flake removal (decortication. Distinct lithic materials are fun. We cross-provenienced many distinct flakes from several units & 2 levels at 22PR533 to show vertical & horizontal integrity. 3/ #archaeology #flintknapping

The 1st 5 flakes removed from 1 side shows it is a multicolor jasper. The cortex is off-white, then under that is a dark gray layer abruptly changing to a well-defined thin pale tan layer. Below the tan is strong brown mottled with maroon. 2/ #flintknapping #Archaeology

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