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archeaids, 1 month ago to Archaeology

Beaded & faceted ovoid elements on a pressed glass footed base shard from the Otis House (Site 16ST23) trash dump at Fairview-Riverside State Park, St. Tammany Parish, LA. The Otis House was built on the bank of the Tchefuncte River directly across from Madisonville in 1885 by W. T. Jay. Beaded glass patterns were popular from about 1850 to ca. 1910 in the US. #Archaeology

archeaids, 1 month 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, 2 months ago to Archaeology

Through the microscope eye-piece phone shot of a magnified, thermally-altered, agatized (fossilized) coral flake, Hillsborough Co., Florida. #archaeology #Fossils

archeaids, 2 months ago to Archaeology

Result of thermal alteration. Yellow & dusty mauve chert biface turned shades of red & mauve during heat-treating. No real luster change. #archaeology #Flintknapping

archeaids, 2 months ago to Cats

This isn't amusing...#cats

archeaids, 2 months ago to Archaeology

There are different names for different obsidian colors depending on who you talk to. I've heard the rusty brown obsidian with ovoid splotches called leopard obsidian (left) & the black with rusty brown speckled & streaked obsidian (right) called mahogany obsidian. These come from different deposits. #NotDragonGlass #archaeology

archeaids, 2 months ago to Archaeology

Big pile of dark blue-gray novaculite flakes that can be used for tools, biface production, etc. #archaeology #flintknapping

archeaids, 2 months ago to Archaeology

Today we got more stuff out of the old shed before it collapses. A lot of what's left is the rest of our clay resources.

This tub had 2 fist-sized lumps of processed Mississippi River clay & an unfired failed Coles Creek Incised rim (arrow). #ceramics #Archaeology

archeaids, 2 months ago to Archaeology

Unfinished mahogany & black obsidian lanceolate biface. One lateral edge is mahogany reddish-brown & black, while the rest of the rock is black. #Archaeology #Flintknapping

archeaids, 2 months ago to random

Views of either axial parenchyma or axial tracheids (or possibly scalaria parenchyma) in the vertical structure of the wood. #FossilFriday #Fossils

archeaids, 2 months ago to random

Closeup of the rodent gnawed area on the Oligocene wood. 2/ #FossilFriday #Fossils

archeaids, 2 months ago to random

Oligocene silicified wood from west-central Louisiana with hard powdery yellow ochre or fine silt sticking to the surface. Note the ancient rodent gnawing. 1/ #FossilFriday #Fossils

archeaids, 2 months ago to random

I use it as a "leveling" material to transition from #flintknapping chert, novaculite & chalcedony to working obsidian. Slag glass used to be cheap compared to the price of good obsidian. Best to destroy slag glass to settle down & get back into the rhythm of working obsidian.

archeaids, 2 months ago to random

"Slag glass" is glass thrown away by glass factories, often with impurities & bubbles. It can be glass left over from batch production at the glass houses. Large deposits of slag glass occur at these factory locations (or former). Slag glass can or used to be found for sale in roadside rock & curio shops across the United States.

archeaids, 2 months ago to Archaeology

The box contains different colors of slag glass & obsidian. #flintknapping #archaeology

archeaids, 2 months ago to Archaeology

Well, not all of the boxes here have "rocks". This one has sharp things...or potentially sharp things. #archaeology #flintknapping

archeaids, 2 months ago to random

Fresh dewberries. #natural

archeaids, 2 months ago to wildflowers

Wild garlic is blooming. #wildflowers

archeaids, 2 months ago to Archaeology

A decidedly eclectic assortment of lithics, fossils & 1 ceramic. 2/ #Archaeology #Geology #FossilFriday #Packrat

archeaids, 2 months ago to Archaeology

Ann says we have a lot of boxes of "rocks".

Hmm...Let's take one & see what is in it.

It's time for WHAT'S IN THAT BOX?

1/ #archaeology #geology #packrat #Flintknapping #FossilFriday

archeaids, 2 months ago to Archaeology

Good example of an Early Marksville (AD 1-200) crosshatched rim on Marksville Incised var. Marksville from a site in Vernon Parish, LA. Often called Hopewell-style, they imitated those of the Hopewell culture of which Marksville culture has so many parallels. #Archaeology #ceramics

Photo: J.H. Guy

archeaids, 2 months ago to Archaeology

Modern #flintknapping debitage, Alibates agatized dolomite, north Texas panhandle. #archaeology

archeaids, 2 months ago to random

Red slag glass. #flintknapping