Texas Petrified Wood points

[Claycald]

Some PW from Texas, come in many shades and colors and you can most often see the see the grain running thru it....I would assume a difficult medium to work with!

[Claycald]

I can see several types in this group (San Patrice , Albany, wells, Gary and possibly a dalton) which tells me that many of tribes picked up this lithic and gave it a shot!

[OBION]

Thanks for showing! I think frames by lithic type are an awesome way to see the subtle variations in the lithic and the larger variation in  style/technique represented by different cultures. 
I'm going to try and do a Dover only frame, I need about 10 more pieces but I'm going to include small tools also.

[CoachG]

Good collection of PWood

[Ron Kelley]

Hey Clay, You have lots of very well made Pet Wood points there. I'm sure you are correct that Pet Wood was difficult to work. I have a couple hundred pet wood points from near Lake Livingston in Eastern Texas.  Many of the points are crude looking. If I ever tried knapping this material I probably wouldn't think the ones in my collection were crude at all.  :laugh:

[SDhunter]

I've found a few,  but not too many up here.  They are very nice.

[Claycald]

I count 50+ points in this case which holds all my intact/mostly intact pieces. So they are not supper common here but I know that most hunters in Texas find PW points fairly often. May not be as common up north. I would say that 1 in very 30 points I find is PW....so kinda rare....probably took a skilled napper!

[sneakygroundbuzzard]

sdhunter, i would think you should be able to find some petrified wood artifacts in your area
there is a type of petrified wood known as "rainy buttes" that comes from north dakota
i know it was used by the ancients as i have seen artifacts made of it
it is a fairly easy to work type of PW,i love working the stuff
it is usually brown colored,like rust. but also comes in a red and yellow