rockheadhunter421
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I found some rhyolite flake and broken tools. I found some quartz arrowheads too. One of them I consider a heartbreaker and the others are dinged up a lil bit. That Stanley does have a nice tip though and the other one has a tip ding. Finding different rhyolites is cool, but I always feel like quartz is much more significant. I see symbolism in quartz being used as a lithic source. Some consider quartz to have metaphysical and mystical properties (rock crystal being the supreme). For example, it symbolizes power, provides forms of healing and can be used in meditation. One must feel completely in harmony with it, to benefit from it, to receive its gifts. The history of mankind and the use of quartz is what I believe is the significance, and Native American's played a very important part of shaping and passing down this knowledge as we know it. Native Americans were the first ones to benefit from it for survival, to become in harmony with it and having peace with nature. Power is in the quartz, that evidence is an important part of the ancient past here in the Carolinas. Finding quartz makes a great hunt for me anytime!
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)- it's as common as cookies around here. And as I've said somewhere on here before, it's the sedentary lifestyle lithic- when the tribes no longer traded from far-off locales with quarries of jasper, chert and flint, and were essentially no longer nomadic. This is what's here, so this is what they used. There's more quartz and quartzite river cobble than you can shake a fish at. Here's what I've got:
