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archeaids, 4 days ago to Archaeology

Found another of my sample flakes of the lavender-gray & red Alibates flint from the Texas Panhandle. This one has an old patinated cleavage surface (human or natural breakage) & what looks like original cortex. #Archaeology #rocks

archeaids, 4 days ago to Geology

Subbottom profile from near offshore southeast Texas in the Gulf of Mexico showing a Pleistocene epoch filled Sabine-Calcasieu River trench below the Beaumont Unconformity, a dense clay layer that dates ~100ka, extending from the western Mississippi Valley to the Tamaulipas Range, NE Mexico. In SW Louisiana & eastern Texas it extends 100+ km inland. See ALT. #geology

archeaids, 7 days ago to random

Resurrection fern & moss. #botany

archeaids, 7 days ago to wildflowers

Lady's Tresses orchids are blooming in the yard. #wildflowers

archeaids, 7 days ago to Archaeology

Fun find!

Unusually large brown striped chalcedony split-cobble core from an archaeological site (recorded) in north Vernon Parish, Louisiana, & a flake from an almost identical material I flintknapped from a west-central LA Citronelle gravel cobble. Same geologic source? #Archaeology

archeaids, 8 days ago to random

Oligocene-Miocene silicified palmwood (Palmoxylon sp.), east Texas. I once used it as a #flintknapping hammerstone. The dots in 2 photos represent sclerenchyma vascular bundles. It was found near crocodilian #fossils, so based on the rounded shape it could be a gastrolith. #FossilFriday

archeaids, 8 days ago to Archaeology

#Flintknapping work in progress. Silicified sandstone (aka quartzitic sandstone, quartzite) from eastern Maryland. #Archaeology

archeaids, 8 days ago to Flowers

Black bee in pink rose. #roses #bees #flowers

archeaids, 8 days ago to Cats

It'l Bit declined to help flintknap, electing instead to watch. #Flintknapping #Cats #Archaeology

archeaids, 8 days ago to Archaeology

Blue-gray & tan novaculite with black manganese dendrites & round black dot from the Cossatot River Basin of Arkansas. #rocks #Archaeology

archeaids, 8 days ago to Archaeology

Serrated Alba (L) & heat-treated Scallorn (R) flintknapped this afternoon. Alba is a Caddo & Coles Creek point dating ca. AD 800-1200 in TX, LA, OK & AR. Scallorn dates ca. AD 700-1150 & is found mainly in TX, LA & OK. #Flintknapping #Archaeology

archeaids, 11 days ago to Cats

The boys were zonked last night while I played Star Wars Battlefront II. Not even a screaming Wookie could disturb them. #cats

archeaids, 14 days ago to Archaeology

Two views of a Mississippian period (ca. AD 900-1700) deep bowl with out-flared, flat rim from eastern Arkansas (Phillips 1939, Pl. 51 E1-E2). The lip is ticked (small vertical notches). The rim has 2 opposing offsets, each with an embossed dot, meant to represent a fish head & eye. #ceramics #Archaeology

archeaids, 14 days ago to Cats

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archeaids, 14 days ago to Cats

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archeaids, 14 days ago to Archaeology

Things are popping around here!

No, really. Be sure to use protective eyewear when #flintknapping or doing other #archaeology experiments. If you flintknap a whole lot, wear a mask to minimize silica dust inhalation (silicosis disease). #Safety

archeaids, 15 days ago to random

Unknown fossil, possibly Carboniferous period plant portion. #FossilFriday #fossils

archeaids, 16 days ago to Archaeology

The result: L) Evans point, Middle Archaic ca. 3400-3000 BC; R) Big Sandy point, Early Archaic ca. 8000-7000 BC. #Archaeology #Flintknapping

archeaids, 16 days ago to Archaeology

A heat-treated chert blank & a white Burlington/Keokuk (or similar) chert point fragment from one of my flintknapping errors. I'm using them to do some #Flintknapping. #Archaeology

archeaids, 17 days ago to Archaeology

I was extremely surprised to find that the olive brown bands were oolites (Right).

Here (Left) is an oolitic pebble with a white chert matrix on one end & a translucent matrix on the other for comparison. 3/ #Archaeology #rocks

archeaids, 17 days ago to Archaeology

While I was doing some work on black novaculite & Big Fork chert samples using the big microscope, I decided to examine it closer. 2/ #Archaeology #rocks

archeaids, 17 days ago to Archaeology

Interesting black chert with 2 pale olive brown bands someone gave me years ago. 1/ #Archaeology #rocks

archeaids, 17 days ago to gardening

Yesterday I exposed an old flowerbed rock semi-circle around what was a red oak tree when we moved here. They are mostly Indigenous quarry rocks from sites in Florida that the State refused to curate. #Gardening

archeaids, 18 days ago to random

Geometrid moth "inchworm" caterpillar. #bugs