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Yeah at 5'' that is big for a bi face. What is the hide behind it? Is the color of a wild Boar I used to know. Thanks for the new view...
You say it's obsidian? I thought obsidian was glossier and translucent. Nice piece, regardless of what lithic it is.
You say it's obsidian? I thought obsidian was glossier and translucent. Nice piece, regardless of what lithic it is.
Obsidian from Glass Butte is glossy, comes in many colors, red, black, stripes, clear, greenish etc. A few miles away from the flows at Glass Butte, on Wagon Tire mountain, there is a much lower grade of obsidian, at least that's what I think it is, when you bust the rock it's a rather dull black, and works just like obsidian. So I'm calling those particular large rocks obsidian, because they differ from the basic lava of the country, and are scattered about on top of the lava like they were blown out of the volcano, but that said, I wouldn't take it to the bank, because I've been known to be wrong, and if you don't believe me, ask my wife. Get-the-point says the point is Basalt, which could very well be true, because there is lots of that in this area, and obsidian would have to be packed for a couple of hundred miles, which was done, because there are a lot of obsidian points in this area. I'm saying this artifact is obsidian from limited knowledge and personal experience, I'm not really a rock person, unless it's quartz and gold, that really gets my attention. Gets-the-point, how do you tell if it's basalt?
Here is a example on Ebay posted by a AACA member as a un-fluted folsom(AKA-Midland). I am 99% sure it is Basalt or Black Dacite. They are very close in looks. After further investigation i'm starting to think this could be a Cascade knife with the base broke.... I've attached pictures of 1 View attachment 714153View attachment 714154cascade blade made of Basalt and a Cascade blade cache to look over. These blades in this pic are of obsidian....Hope this helps.............................................GTP
And just to make this legal, first photo provided by Ebay and Worthpoint.
Image Detail for - AACA, Utah, FOLSOM - Arrowhead, Desert Polished - DARK BASALT!!!
I've got bunch of shinny obsidian points, and I've hauled a lot of obsidian rocks home from Glass Buttes, and also from Wagon Tire mountain, and after looking at the link showing Utah basalt points, this particular one looks a lot closer to the Wagon Tire stuff than it does basalt. Anyhow, I'm not going to argue, because I really don't know enough about rocks to prove anything, and comparing in pictures isn't the best way to do it either. But comparing the real one to the photos of basalt, there is no comparison. Now you have me going, and I'm gonna have to get a knowledgeable person on rocks to take a look at it. There is a geologist that comes to out gold mining club, and I'll have to show it to him.