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archeaids, 10 hours ago to Flowers

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

archeaids, 11 hours ago to Cats

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

archeaids, 11 hours ago to Archaeology

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

archeaids, 13 hours 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, 2 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, 5 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, 5 days ago to Cats

Me: I post about archaeology, geology, botany, history, maps & LiDAR.

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#Caturday #Cats

archeaids, 5 days ago to Cats

But...but, it's #Caturday! #cats

archeaids, 5 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, 6 days ago to random

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

archeaids, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 days ago to Archaeology

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

archeaids, 9 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, 9 days ago to random

Geometrid moth "inchworm" caterpillar. #bugs

archeaids, 9 days ago to random

The other day I cut down the large groundsel bush (Baccharis halimifolia) that was growing in our burn pile. Walked by the remains today & went "Hmm."

Introducing my new walking cane.

archeaids, 11 days ago to Archaeology

Reproduction Late Paleo period San Patrice variety St. Johns point on black & tan novaculite. #flintknapping #archaeology

archeaids, 11 days ago to Archaeology

As in this case, some yellow & red jasper can be extremely hard & difficult to #flintknap. The hardness means it makes great, long-lasting flake tools & drills. #Archaeology

archeaids, 11 days ago to Archaeology

#Fintknapper apprentice thinks it is time to notch the point. #Archaeology

archeaids, 11 days ago to Archaeology

#Flintknapper apprentice. #Archaeology

archeaids, 12 days ago to random

White kaolin clay with a few ferric oxide stains from Andalusia, Alabama. At 2200C it fires to a salmon color. Many kaolin deposits were rejected because of impurities. At one time, the primary kaolin mine for Wedgwood Co. of England was in Mississippi.