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!
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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.
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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:
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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!
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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
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