CheathamHill
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- Oct 10, 2009
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Found in a nice size North Georgia creek. It's just so hard to tell with quartz.
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Thanks for any help
I have found quart point in GA. that stuff must be gruesome to work. I have never seen flakes on my points.Thanks for the reply. I’m a novice so I’m not sure where to see the parallel flakes you speak of. I will post other angles of them soon so maybe someone can identify if they’ve been worked. Thanks again
Just to dispell a common opinion, and not to judge the pieces I see here. Quartz is the most common lithic in my area. It is not at all difficult to see flaking on quartz. In the case of a quartz projectile, you just have to angle it in the light correctly, usually at a very oblique angle, to see the flaking. This makes it diificult to photograph the flaking, but it is not difficult to see the flaking if one simply angles the point in the light in order to see it. I just mention this because folks are always saying it's hard to see flaking on quartz artifacts, when in fact it's hard to photograph that flaking.
I use natural light most of the time up against a window works great .Couldn’t agree more , about 75% of my finds are made from quartz and like you said when held correctly in the light you can see the flaking quite well especially crystal quartz.
I use natural light most of the time up against a window works great .