What are your favorite lithic materials?

[chase]

Liston creek chert.

[chase]

Indiana Green chert

[chase]

Harrison County chert

[chase]

Trout creek chert many colors

[chase]

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

[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

[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.

[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]

Sunny, I’m with you on that. This is my 2nd pass on viewing this post. 😁

[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?

[KyChipStone]

Love it!....Hope to land a point from this someday.....

[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.

[old dog]

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

[orari]

[QUOTE]Ron Kelley 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?

  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.

[Kyflintguy]

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

  Tan- grey- white Fort Payne

  Grayish- black Fort Payne

[Kyflintguy]

Knox Chert from Ky and Tn .

[CMD]

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