Quartzite is the toughest. Almost all of mine are some form of dense quartzite.
01.03.2026 19:28
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Quartzite is the toughest. Almost all of mine are some form of dense quartzite.
Tilted strata
Subbottom profiler data from the northern Gulf of Mexico showing tilting strata associated with a diapiric uplift (salt dome). The strata represents alternating layers of clay & silt. The top appears truncated, prob. during fluctuations in Pleistocene sea levels. #archaeology #geology
Piles of back dirt sand & archaeologists excavating under blue canopies.
Wife Ann at Site 8GD106 in Gadsden Co., Florida. #archaeology
5 various size quartzite stones
A few of my hammerstones that I use for #flintknapping. #archaeology
Head shot of sleeping orange tabby
Bit, are you awake? #Caturday #cats
ALASKA--A new paper in Quaternary International explores tool production and movement in Alaska’s middle Tanana Valley, including evidence tied to mammoth ivory and hearths at the Holzman site—contributing to larger debates about early dispersals into the Americas.
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Small plant with lavender tube flowers
Henbit (Lamium amplexicaule). #wildflowers
Orange tabby on bed with iron bed posts
Patch kitty is now on watch. #cats #Caturday
Head shot of orange tabby & black iron bed post
It'l Bit is awake. #cats #Caturday
🤣🤣🤣 Ann & I are discussing the formal vs familiar forms of greetings & replies in French (me) & Spanish (her). Not your average household.
Red slipped engraved bottle comparison
Wilder Engraved reproduction & original. #archaeology #ceramics
Red slipped engraved Caddo bottle & flake tools
Fired engraved Caddo bottle with spiral design
Reproduction red slipped Wilder Engraved (Caddo) bottle before & after firing & engraving. #archaeology #ceramics
Ancient Maya guy with obsidian ax about to chop his enlarged foot off
Maya Bigfoot.
Rough drawing of a projectile point with patchwork of colors
Art is an abstract thing. #archaeology #art
Orange tabby asleep on bed with pile of socks & an orange cat doll
It'l Bit. #cats
Sherd with incisions & drawing of rim sherd from the site
Plaquemine culture (ca. 1200-1700 CE) Anna Incised experimental sherd based on a rim sherd we recovered from Site 16LF66, Lafourche Parish, LA (Miller et al. 2001). Anna Incised occurs on the interior of shallow bowls & platters. #archaeology #ceramics
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Brown modeling clay with positive impressions of the cords
Parallel, horizontal cord marks from heavy cordage pressed into the wet clay body of a small straight-sided pot. This was 1 of several pots Ann made for her archaeology class project. The modeling clay shows the cord marks blurred by the wet clay during application. #archaeology #ceramics
Small yellow chert & pink chert points
Catahoula arrow points with their distinct swept wings typified by thickened shoulders. The type dates ca. 700-1100 CE & is found from east Texas to extreme west Mississippi & north to southern Arkansas & SE Oklahoma. #archaeology
Image of the 3 types of bottle necks/lips
Archaeologists often can tell the general contents of late 19th-early 20th C bottles by the closure/neck. a) Ball neck & Patent lip (medicine & extracts), b) Prescription lip (medicine) & c) Perry Davis lip (mainly proprietary & patent medicine). #archaeology
Front view of a white house with wide stairs leading up to a porch across front under roof & 2 small dormers.
Same except view of front & side
The 1836-1837 Christmas Cottage, Jackson, Louisiana. The house is a Carolina Lowland style house that sits on brick piers with the "crawl space" subsequently partitioned & enclosed with cinder block. #architecture #history #houses
Good thing we ate at home
Translucent blue green glass; trail in the same color. Intact; a few large bubbles; small patches of soil encrustation, weathering, and iridescence. Vessels that have been deliberately worked to create a wavy rim and sides are extremely rare in Roman glassware. This bowl is perhaps the best example known to have survived. A handkerchief bowl (or vase) is a decorative glass piece designed to mimic the folded, drooping appearance of a cloth handkerchief. Popularized in the modern era by Italian glassmakers in the 1940s and 50s, it remains a popular form. 3rd-4th century CE. H.: 3 5/8 in. (9.3 cm) Met Museum, New York (17.194.314)
This is an extremely rare and the best example of Roman glassware with wavy sides, a type known as a ‘handkerchief‘ bowl - so named because the design mimics the folded, drooping appearance of a cloth handkerchief. 🏺 #ancientbluesky 1/
3rd-4th c. CE. #MetMuseum
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Hemispheric jar with alternating triangular panels of punctations & incisions speckled with white slaking shell particles.
The slaking shell temper is destroying the Barton Incised reproduction pot a little bit at a time. #ceramics #archaeology
Brown grasshopper on concrete slab
Middle of February not long after a deep freeze & there is a grasshopper. #nature
Pink & orange sunset set with a few small gray clouds
Sunset near Hammond, LA, 20260213. #sunsets
Bottlebrush flower painted onto a bowl
Acrylic paint on terracotta
#pottery
Glowing pot in fire.
Reproduction Caddo jar firing in the fire pit. #ceramic #archaeology
Check-stamped jar, cord-marked bowl, frog pipe & snake platform pipe in ash & ember fire pit bottom.
Two reproduction vessels & some pipes cooling down in the fire pit in late 2024. #ceramics #archaeology
FYI: I apologize for not posting much recently.
I am now the 2nd in command (Captain) of a top 20 online gaming alliance. It's taken up a wee bit more time than I thought it would with policing members, helping them, recruiting, etc. I'll try to be better in posting interesting things.
LOL, got a stack from my Mardi Gras days, plus my little sister gave me her duplicates.