What are your favorite lithic materials?

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Posted by [chase]

Trout creek chert many colors

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Posted by [chase]

Tabletop chert on the right and Kremmling chert to the left.

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Posted by [SDhunter]

Where is there a good source to look for lithics in your own state? I'm having trouble finding a reference for lithics found in SD. I would really like to know my materials
better. Thanks for any help. Gary

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Posted by [gregszybala]

Here is a good start Gary,

http://www.sdgs.usd.edu/

looks like there are resources available on the net but you have to do some digging to get to what you want.

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Posted by [Sunny]

Oh go on then...I'll take them all.... my address is.....:laugh:
What an absolutely incredible array of beautiful artefacts. It is an art form that is for sure. Thank you everyone for showing them; totally impressed.....and very very envious



Notarelichunter commented
02-10-2019, 04:44 PM
Sunny, I’m with you on that. This is my 2nd pass on viewing this post. 😁

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Posted by [Ron Kelley]

orari wrote:
My favorite is probably the blue portion of BGT (Blue-Gray-Tan) Fort Payne Chert. The artifacts made from it look like North Carolina Tarheels light blue, struck flakes are sharp as a razor blade, and it makes a glass-like, hollow, ringing sound. Early Archaic folks at some sites in Middle Tennessee appear to have been very fond of it.





Hey Orari, This chert is from Alabama Colbert County. I think this is Fort Payne Chert. Is it sometimes found with just the blue color?



KyChertHunter commented
01-11-2020, 01:53 PM
Love it!....Hope to land a point from this someday.....

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Posted by [Kyflintguy]

Ron, I'd say that's spot on Blue FP.Interested to see if it's a match to what orari referred to. I've got some smaller debitage flakes from TN and Central Ky, that are this same material, it really pops when lying on the wet ground. I also have examples of the tan,grey , black, grey, And patinated Brown fort Payne I will try to get some photos up soon.

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Posted by [old dog]

Flattop Chert. These tools are all personal finds of my better half.

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Posted by [orari]

[QUOTE]Ron Kelley wrote:
Originally posted by orari
My favorite is probably the blue portion of BGT (Blue-Gray-Tan) Fort Payne Chert. The artifacts made from it look like North Carolina Tarheels light blue, struck flakes are sharp as a razor blade, and it makes a glass-like, hollow, ringing sound. Early Archaic folks at some sites in Middle Tennessee appear to have been very fond of it.

Hey Orari, This chert is from Alabama Colbert County. I think this is Fort Payne Chert. Is it sometimes found with just the blue color?





Hi Ron. Yes. I think it probably does occur by itself, or maybe the Indians sometimes used just the blue portion of a tabular piece or nodule. Truthfully, I am not totally sure about all the different ways it expresses itself in the wild, but I do know that the Blue-Gray-Tan mixed color Fort Payne is common down in the Tullahoma-Manchester, Tennessee, area (Eastern Highland Rim). I find artifacts and flakes of the Tarheels blue variety in Sumner County, Tennessee, which is in the Eastern Highland Rim farther north near the Kentucky-Tennessee state line. The blue I see is the same color as your example artifact but without the gray mottling. It is more of a smooth, uniform blue.

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Posted by [Kyflintguy]

Exhausted lost lake, Tan- grey- white Fort Payne, Montgomery co. Ky


Tan- grey- white Fort Payne


Grayish- black Fort Payne

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Posted by [Kyflintguy]

Knox Chert from Ky and Tn .

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Posted by [CMD]

Just quartz, but when it looks like this, it does stand out from a lot of other quartz....

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Posted by [11KBP]

old dog wrote:
Flattop Chert. These tools are all personal finds of my better half.


Those are nice tools.
Flattop Chalcedony (chert) is one of my favorites and was a favorite High Plains
lithic source of the Paleo hunters as well as the later cultures.
I wish I could find more of it.

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Posted by [arrow719]

Out west our lithics typically don't have names other than the generic chert, jasper, agate, chalcedony, quartzite, petrified wood, obsidian, basalt, rhyolite, dacite, etc. I like unique lithics the most. Most of the ones I'm posting are unique (to me). The first point is made from rhyolite which is pretty common. But the stripes running through it set it apart. The next point is made from green jasper (I think) it's my favorite point lithic-wise. The next one is a paleo point made from a material I've never seen before. It's similar to Tiger Chert but it's probably something different. Next up is a knife made from blue agate. Next up is a point made from a pink material with some green mixed in near the tip. Next is a point made from solid green jasper. And the last one is a point made from a yellow fossiiferous chert.





tomclark commented
01-25-2019, 09:41 PM
Gawd!!


Tam commented
02-05-2019, 08:23 PM
Had to come back and look at this . Just amazing


willjo commented
02-10-2019, 04:09 PM
That pink point has some amazing flaking scars on it, nice point, nice material

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Posted by [rmartin]

I will never get tired of seeing those!!!!