Quartzite flake. No flakes removed from the dorsal face. Possibly naturally fractured. [CMP 27/07/2010]

Collection type: Object
Description: Quartzite flake. No flakes removed from the dorsal face. Possibly naturally fractured. [CMP 27/07/2010]
Geographical reference: United States of America
Northern America > North America > United States of America; Southern USA Washington DC Piney Branch Park Piney Branch Quarry
Person: Field collector William Henry Holmes; PRM source Henry Balfour
Date
Date collected: 1891 ?
Acquisition information: Donated: 1891 Found unentered: 23/07/2010
Materials and processes: Material Quartzite Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions: Depth: max 6 mm, Width: max 38 mm, Length: max 56 mm, Weight 24 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 2010.47.17
Research and responses: Piney Branch is a a paleoindian quarry site, exploited approx. 8000 BC. The site was first investigated by William Holmes, an archaeologist with the Smithsonian Bureau of American Ethnology, in the 1880s. Presumably whilst visiting Piney Branch Balfour became acquainted with Holmes, as in 1894 he sent 72 implements from the site to the PRM [see 1944.11.4 .1 -.72]. Holmes published his discoveries on pages 1-26, Vol. 3 [no. 1] of the American Anthropologist in an article entitled 'A Quarry Workshop of the Flaked-Stone Implement Makers in the District of Columbia'. The article can be accessed online through JSTOR, the stable URL is http://www.jstor.org/stable/658323. [MN 23/07/2010]

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