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archeaids, 8 months ago to Archaeology

Two of you are dropped off at a remote marshy site to excavate. Hours later you get a call from the office that is abruptly cut off...zombie apocalypse!

You each can take 1 large & 1 small tool to try to survive.

Which 2 large & 2 small tools do you & your partner choose (4 total) & why? 🤪🧟‍♂️

#Archaeology #Zombies

archeaids, 1 year ago to random

Black dendrites in chert. Dendrites are caused by hydrous iron or manganese permeating tiny cracks in the rock. #rocks #geology

archeaids, 7 months ago to history

Ship's ballast stones from New Orleans. Ships arriving empty offloaded their ballast to take on sugar, molasses, timber, & other goods. The surplus stones were used as cobblestones, bracing for streets crossing ditches, garden ornaments & edging. #History #NewOrleans

archeaids, 11 months ago to Archaeology

How sharp can a flake edge be? I will use the marked edge to shaving & whittle a fresh red maple twig. 2/ #archaeology

archeaids, 11 months ago to history

The National Register of Historic Places 1836-1837 Christmas Cottage in Jackson, Louisiana. It is a 5-bay raised Carolina Lowlands architectural style built by Richard Christmas. The white door in front is access to the upstairs rooms. 1/ #architecture #History

archeaids, 2 months ago to AncientHistory

A modern corner-notched point made from Tallahatta silicified sandstone. #archeology

archeaids, 6 months ago to gardening

The mesculum is coming along nicely. #gardening

archeaids, 10 months ago to random

Another quartz crystal from the old Coleman's Mine near Hot Springs, Arkansas. #rocks #crystals

archeaids, 2 months ago to Archaeology

A few of the larger dark blue-gray novaculite flakes that I haven't used yet that can be made into points, etc. US quarter for scale. #archaeology #flintknapping

archeaids, 11 months ago to Geology

The silica gel cement that permeated the sands dried out to form opal-CT. The white opal-CT can be seen filling the pore space between sand grains in this magnified view. It many cases the opal cement is clear, but can be stained yellow by ferric oxides (Heinrich 1984). #geology #archaeology #rocks

archeaids, 10 months ago to random

The label "First Generation Channel" is a project designation when there are multiple relict channels identified on different stratigraphic levels. If 7 channels were identified originating from 4 different stratum, then they are referred to from bottom to top as 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th generation.

archeaids, 7 months ago to Archaeology

Chalcedony nodule from the Wetherington Island site (8HI473), Hillsborough Co., Florida, with test flakes removed (A & C), a knob removed (B) possibly for reduction, & (D) the attachment scar where it was removed from the bedrock. #Archaeology

archeaids, 9 months ago to random

Question: What app or browser are you using for Mastodon on desktop PC?

archeaids, 2 months ago to Archaeology

Left) Opal-CT lithic material from a thin (10-15 cm) ledge of rock uncovered at Fort Johnson, Vernon Parish, LA. It is possibly Fleming opal. Right) Banded Alibates flint from the Texas Panhandle. #Archaeology #geology

archeaids, 8 months ago to Archaeology

Lithic patina normally is a slow process of chemical &/or physical weathering of fresh surfaces. There's usually no set rate, since it depends on various environmental conditions that can change over time. This quarry chalcedony from 8HI473 is starting to patinate as seen by the slight milky clouding. #archaeology

archeaids, 8 months ago to history

From the old shed today. You may have heard the colloquial phrase "You don't know shit from Shinola"? Well, this is a pre-ca. 1940 Shinola shoe & leather polish 2 oz. bottle.

Started ca. 1877, it came in paste & then liquid, dyed different colors for different color leather, but also came in clear. #History #archaeology

archeaids, 9 months ago to Archaeology

Mississippian (ca. AD 900-1700) Vernon Paul Applique' var. Vernon Paul loop handle jar from the Vernon Paul site (3CS25; aka Jones/Borum), Cross Co., Arkansas (Phillips, Ford & Griffin 1951, Fig. 97a). Dia. 5".

The appliques are interrupted by a line around the waist. #ceramics #archaeology #pottery

archeaids, 9 months ago to Archaeology

Side-scan sonar of the drilling derrick & other debris off the jack-up barge Maverick destroyed by Hurricane Betsy on Sept. 10, 1965, in the northern Gulf of Mexico. #sonar #archaeology #hurricanes

archeaids, 7 months ago to maps

3-D bathymetry with 0.5 ft contour lines showing one of our geophysical survey areas in the Gulf of Mexico with the surface expression of about 1/2 of a salt diapir (dome) rising above the seafloor. #Maps #GIS #Archaeology

archeaids, 7 months ago to Archaeology

Bullen's 1968 drawing of the different forms of the Bolen Beveled (ca. 8000-7000 BC) projectile point in Florida. #Archaeology

archeaids, 10 months ago to Archaeology

At high firing temperatures this clay turns a salmon color. The bodies of both of these Southwest reproduction bottles were made exclusively with the Andalusia kaolin. #ceramics #archaeology

archeaids, 11 months ago to Archaeology

The pendant is made from a flat leaf-shaped rock that could be tuffaceous sandstone or sandy shale from central Arkansas. It was ground smooth using sandstone on both surfaces, with minor shaping around the edge. The triangular design was carved with a flake. 2/ #archaeology

archeaids, 8 months ago to Archaeology

Weeden Island Incised (ca. AD 300-1000) human effigy vessel from the smaller mound near Burnt Mill Creek (8BY16), Bay Co., Florida (Moore 1902, Fig. 32-33). #ceramics #archaeology

archeaids, 9 months ago to Archaeology

Coarse chert quarry trim with cavity remnants from Site 8HI473 near Tampa, Florida. The stream at the site had a ledge of chert that looked like Swiss cheese where silica filled the cracks & cavities in the limestone, then acidic conditions ate the calcium carbonate away, leaving the chert. Often the silica permeates into the limstone somewhat, creating coarse, porous chert rind. #archaeology

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archeaids, 1 month ago to random

Oligocene silicified wood from west-central Louisiana. One side (right) exhibits the warped grain of a branch attachment knot. #FossilFriday #Fossils