Awesomley beautiful lithic material: Rainy Buttes

[coteau]

I visited the scenic Rainy Buttes and got some Rainy Buttes Silicified Wood from the landowner. I wont be wasting it on flintknapping, this material is hard to come by.
Paleo Indians just loved this stuff, second to KRF.
Have you found any artifacts made of this material??

 

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[larson1951]

thanks coteau.....i was hoping a few were RBSW

 

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[larson1951]

i think this could be a large graver made of rainy butte?
what do you think? asking coteau and harry and T Witko??

 

[coteau]

Nice big ol' flake, the knapper hit that one pretty hard as evident by the very large eraillure scar and percussion bulb...

It looks to be Rainy Buttes. I don't know if it was used as a graver though. It's a pretty cool artifact, even if it is just a big flake....

 

[coteau]

Here is one of the RBSW bifaces from the Beach Clovis cache.



Some links about the cache:
David Kilby's Field Projects

UNM Anthropologist Investigates New Clovis Culture Site in North Dakota - UNM Today | The University of New Mexico

 

[larson1951]

here is one more that showed up in an unsorted box of stuff