Hi All-
I've been reading the glass point thread and haven't commented because I really don't know a lot about artifacts. While looking for some other stuff on Google Books, I came across this book published by the Smithsonian in 1899 that mentions they were known to have been made in California and used for barter. The passage below comes from the bottom of page 968 when discussing an encampment in Colorado.
Arrowpoints, Spearheads, and Knives of Prehistoric Times (1899)
Thomas Wilson
Curator, Division of Prehistoric Archaeology
Smithsonian Institution
The complete book can be found for free here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=Y1...as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=1930&num=50&as_brr=1#
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The Indians seem to have carried on quite a trade among themselves, in order to procure the materials for arrowpoint-making, and some of the chippings found in their encampments are from stones which cannot be found within several miles of this place, and some, I think, have been brought from distant localities. Although the Indians used several kinds of stone in the manufacture of arrowpoints et they seem to have had a preference for quartzite, chalcedony, and jasperized wood, probably on account of their superior hardness, and may have made others from handsomer but less durable stones only for purpose of barter, the Indians of California exchanged arrowheads made of bottle glass.
I've been reading the glass point thread and haven't commented because I really don't know a lot about artifacts. While looking for some other stuff on Google Books, I came across this book published by the Smithsonian in 1899 that mentions they were known to have been made in California and used for barter. The passage below comes from the bottom of page 968 when discussing an encampment in Colorado.
Arrowpoints, Spearheads, and Knives of Prehistoric Times (1899)
Thomas Wilson
Curator, Division of Prehistoric Archaeology
Smithsonian Institution
The complete book can be found for free here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=Y1...as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=1930&num=50&as_brr=1#
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The Indians seem to have carried on quite a trade among themselves, in order to procure the materials for arrowpoint-making, and some of the chippings found in their encampments are from stones which cannot be found within several miles of this place, and some, I think, have been brought from distant localities. Although the Indians used several kinds of stone in the manufacture of arrowpoints et they seem to have had a preference for quartzite, chalcedony, and jasperized wood, probably on account of their superior hardness, and may have made others from handsomer but less durable stones only for purpose of barter, the Indians of California exchanged arrowheads made of bottle glass.
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