Earliest American made double beading tool

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Matthew J D'Avella, Kona HI

>Very cool.

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nhlett

>Dale,

Very neat. Jazz up your description a little and you could have the next big item on EBay ;.)

Makes me wonder thou, how do you get access to an electron microscope?

Peter

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Dale Stansbery

>I don't have access to a microscope, but others in the past have done comparison studies to compare the microscopic wear caused by use on these type tools to reproduction flint tools used on wood. So, it's more than just speculation that they were used for woodworking.

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Todd O. Cronkhite Native of Maine

>Very cool item indeed Dale. What is it made from? Flint? Obsidian? I'm more into fossils, but I also enjoy pre-historic, (and post historic)man made tools. This one of coarse is a bit of special intrest because it was made for the purpose of decoration and not pure utilitarian. Just out of curiousity where are you hunting, unless of coarse you'd rather not say, in which case I fully understand. I've always wanted to give my hand a go at primitive tool making, but alas its just another thing that I've yet to actually do. So many "wants to do" and so little time eh? Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh well, beats the heck out of being bored silly eh?

Todd O.

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William Duffield on the Cohansey

>Todd, you might find Cohansey quartzite interesting. It occurs here in low areas in Cumberland county, Greenwich township, on the shores of the Delaware Bay and Cohansey Creek, but AFAIK, nowhere else in the world. It is full of fossils, mostly shells. The Lene-Lenape traded it widely with other Native American tribes, as evidenced by edge tools knapped from it found in archeological sites throughout the East Coast.


Cohansey Quartzite

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Dale Stansbery

>Todd, this one is made from Upper Mercer flint from Coshocton, Ohio. I was specifically looking for artifacts in a corn field when I found it. As William said, quartzite was also used. Artifacts from it are rare hear in Ohio, but do occur, and probably come from the east where they are more common.

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Todd O. Cronkhite Native of Maine

>Thanks for the replies fellas, most interesting. William, I opened the links, but there was no pictures of the Cohansey Quartz. Was there and they didn't open for me, was there there not any pictures of it at all?

Dale, thanks for letting me know what the beading tool was made of. Flint eh?

I've got to thinking that using these prehistoric tools would be the peak of Neanderthalism eh? Imagine using rocks, shells, etc, etc to shape wood. Makes using a plane look like using a tailed devil dosen't it. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm are you guys thinking what I'm thinking?

Todd O.

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William Duffield on the Cohansey

>Sorry, Todd, no photos in any of the links. I have a few hunks of it laying around in the back yard, but the pics I just took of some of it doesn't show the fossils very well. I'll send you a couple of photos via e-mail, if you are interested, but be forewarned that it just looks like rusty rock with clam shells in it.

Why assume it was for decoration?

Paul Barnard

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Dale Stansbery

>Good point, it may have been for something functional as well.