Some quartz

[SCrocks]

Framed some more quartz points that I found over the years. Thanks for the look

 

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[DigIron2]

Damn dude,did you leave any for anyone else down there hell of a NICE collection!Thanks for the view.

 

[Americus]

That is a lot of quartz, and nice quartz at that. Thanks for sharing.

 

[NicJohn]

you walk a lot of fields, huh?

 

[NicJohn]

very nice collection thanks for sharing

 

[rock]

Damn dude,did you leave any for anyone else down there hell of a NICE collection!Thanks for the view.

That's funny.
He is the Quartz King that's for sure.

 

[BurntBear]

Hey guys,

I'm new to artifacts but very intrigued and interested. I'm in the field of Geology myself. Were there particular tribes that used Quartz for points or was it a common practice like flint? I personally have never seen Quartz points. I would think that Quartz would be more brittle than flint due to their crystal structure and therefore there would be less surviving artifacts

 

[rock]

Well most of what I find made from quartz is called a Morrow Mountain 7000-5000 B.P. Although I do find some from the Woodland Period but mostly MM.

 

[GatorBoy]

Nice bunch of quartz there ....pretty sure I see a load of Morrow mountains some Guilford and maybe a kirk or two.. They used what they had access to that's for sure.
Every once in awhile some guys down here in northern Florida find a flint Morrow Mountain.. Seems like they really enjoyed that material they were usually fairly large comparatively

 

[monsterrack]

Very nice collectionand like Gator said they used what was close to make points.

 

[SCrocks]

Hey guys,

I'm new to artifacts but very intrigued and interested. I'm in the field of Geology myself. Were there particular tribes that used Quartz for points or was it a common practice like flint? I personally have never seen Quartz points. I would think that Quartz would be more brittle than flint due to their crystal structure and therefore there would be less surviving artifacts

BurntBear like the others said they used what was ready available, Around my area quartz is the most prominate material suitable for tool making. As far as meterial being associated with a particular tribe I'm not aware of any around here. About all the artifacts I find are much older then any recorded history of tribes. However different time periods around here seemed to use a particalur material more then other periods. Artifacts from the woodland period around here have a good percentage of rhyolite that was carried in from N.C. Alot of the archiac period points like Guilfords and Morrowmounts tend to be quartz and slate/shale with only a few rhyolite. Savananah Rivers tend to be about all quartz with some shale/slate . Kirks from the early archiac period tend to be about all rhyolite with very few quartz while palmers (same time period) seem to be mostly quartz. I guess the use of a particular material could be from a number of reasons such as some had a better trade network. Some may have moved around more and came into access with different materials more often.

 

[BurntBear]

Awesome! Thank you!

 

[wvdirtdigger]

Super nice!

 

[Tony in SC]

Great points!! I live in Upstate, S.C. About 95% of mine white quartz, the rest were probably trade points fron N.C. or the Allendale area. The old trail crosses my farm. Tony

 

[manzanita]

Man alive! Those are awesome!

 

[creekhunter]

Wow, spectacular frames