Another impressive cache - you can see a couple normal size points in the corner of the shot. These things, while not as elaborate or huge as the Duck River artifacts, are still quite impressive. Status symbols? Burial offerings?

various glass points from Baltimore City and surrounding areas

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Crafting: Diederik Pomstra

Photo: Karsten Wentink

Someone got heatstroke.

Someone got heatstroke.

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Pennsylvania jasper. #crafts #flintknapping #paleolithic #paleo #archaic #knapped #arrowhead #usedtobeyellow #heattreated ift.tt/2cvwJxJ

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Crafting: Diederik Pomstra

Photo: Karsten Wentink

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Crafting: Diederik Pomstra

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#rhyolite #arrowhead on a #rivercane #arrowshaft fletched with #guinea #feathers

#paleo #paleoindian #crafts #teeth #hunting #primitivehunting #flintknapping ift.tt/2kzzSu6

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For my archaeologist friends, on the left is some crappy freeze damage River cracked Pennsylvania jasper, on the right is that same rock after heat treatment: note the color change and that it’s not crap anymore. That is all.

#paleo #paleoindian #pennsylvaniajasper #jasper #flintknapping #ancientart #ancient technique #knife #stoneknife #crafts ift.tt/2cpoNuz