Thanks . I'm in the ouachitas . Just learning . Going to try heating some novaculite from the Hot Springs area .native mines all over down here . I found an arrowhead on my land and some cutting tools , So I've just really been curiouse . As a carpenter , I think I can make me some keepsakes .
I have a house in Mt. Ida and I'm in the area pretty regularly. Novaculite is tricky to heat treat. You can buy it heat treated from Dan's Whetstones in Malvern great quality.
I worked in the Oaxaca Valley at the Monastery Cuilapan Laboratory and the Archaeologist said we find this Quartz but we can't find the source and I said that is because it has been heat treated and he said, They heat treated Quartz? and I said sure they heat treated Quartz. It is what we called cold cream jar Quartz which is what he had.
I beat on that Arkansas stuff when I was a kid,didn't know squat about tools ,pleasure flakers and what not, or good from bad, I just pick up two rocks and went at it,I suspect the material around there would have benefited from heat treatment. I'm two hours from Flint ridge Ohio, I now make nice points out of anything good I can get my hands on
My uncle Leo Rooker had a big ranch on the Sharp Randolph County line,outside of Smithfield and Imbooden (Wellin Springs,that place was loaded with Flint, the road grader would bust it up and it would cut the snot out of your tires
I've seen lots of experienced knappers miss the fact that a square corner is nothing but another ridge. Saves a ton of zigzag work and gets edges setup faster when you can successfully nock those across like that. Well done.
Awesome video man! May message ya online and see if you think this ole rock formations is a fire pit natives used to use. I find points close to it and it just seems odd rock formation for the area. I’ll message ya on Facebook! Keep up the vids man!