Is this Quartz?

[Mt. Hope]

Ohio has some beautiful, (quartz?), specimens. If this piece is quartz, why did the Native Americans of OH not use this material for points? I may be answering my own question, but I suppose with the availability of easier knapping material, it just wasn't necessary.

[Butch Wilson]

we call that stuff field quartz down here. It has lots of cracks, crevices and veins not very knappable.

[Hoss]

Pamela Ruthie, there was so much flint available the quartz was most likely ignored in your area. I am sure it was used in small quantities if quality material was at hand. I found this map of flint sources in your state. http://ohsweb.ohiohistory.org/galler...?g2_itemId=107
With that much high quality material available quartz was probably just left alone. That piece you found is of very poor quality for knappability . If it was struck with a hammer stone that type of material would probably cube rather than break on a plane.
I hope what Butch and I described has helped.

[twoshovel]

i think you nailed it, i'm amazed everytime someone posts a finly made quartz artifact, that they could work that hard material into a point at all let alone some of the art i've been shown here, i only see quartz in flower beds and along the rail road beds all hauled in from somewhere don't think theres any in my part of fl,,ts