Wyandotte, KY Blue, Sonora, St. Genevieve are all in the Hornstone family... They range from glassy to very dull luster's and come in various shades of grey, blues, browns and everything in between... The Hornstone your showing in the photo is not translucent like your piece, I have knapped quite a bit of it. The lighter area is like chalk toward the outer edges and hardens towards the center cherty part of the nodule but does not look like your material.
Here's my experience with pinning down lithic materials Ethan, I've been collecting Kentucky lithics for a while now. I've found that some stuff can be identified pretty readily. Hornstone, Boyle, Sonora, Carter cave (Paoli), Harrodsburg, Breathit, Pulaski, Ft. Payne etc, etc... I personally think your overlooking a prime canidate in Haney, But many lithics are just not known or named also. You get glacial erratics, various nodular cherts that can be indigenous to only geologically small areas and imported lithics that may be overlooked completely. You get stuff that patinates so much there is no telling what it is!
The amount of information regarding lithics online is extremely limited and good photo resources are even rarer. Believe it or not most archaeogist can't associate a definitive Chert type to many artifacts... It's a field where a lot of work is yet to be done. Your still young, maybe you should go to school and specialize in identifying lithics sources for collectors and professionals alike!
I say don't bang your head against the wall too hard trying to figure it out is my best advice, you will run into this same issue once you start taking a deep interest into identification of your finds. Sometimes the answer is not readily available, instead of force fitting your find like a square peg in a round hole, set it aside, be ok with not being sure, stay at learning and one day the answer you seek will smack you right in the face when you least expect it. Lol it's happen to me that way a few times!
Here's my experience with pinning down lithic materials Ethan, I've been collecting Kentucky lithics for a while now. I've found that some stuff can be identified pretty readily. Hornstone, Boyle, Sonora, Carter cave (Paoli), Harrodsburg, Breathit, Pulaski, Ft. Payne etc, etc... I personally think your overlooking a prime canidate in Haney, But many lithics are just not known or named also. You get glacial erratics, various nodular cherts that can be indigenous to only geologically small areas and imported lithics that may be overlooked completely. You get stuff that patinates so much there is no telling what it is!
The amount of information regarding lithics online is extremely limited and good photo resources are even rarer. Believe it or not most archaeogist can't associate a definitive Chert type to many artifacts... It's a field where a lot of work is yet to be done. Your still young, maybe you should go to school and specialize in identifying lithics sources for collectors and professionals alike!
I say don't bang your head against the wall too hard trying to figure it out is my best advice, you will run into this same issue once you start taking a deep interest into identification of your finds. Sometimes the answer is not readily available, instead of force fitting your find like a square peg in a round hole, set it aside, be ok with not being sure, stay at learning and one day the answer you seek will smack you right in the face when you least expect it. Lol it's happen to me that way a few times!
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