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2010.47.43

Stone tool

2010.47.43

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Collection type
Object
Description
Stone tool
Long description
Quartzite flaked tool with flakes removed from dorsal side only. Pointed distal end and straight proximal end. [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 18 mm, Width: max 48 mm, Length: max 70 mm, Weight 82 g
Object numbers
Accession number: 2010.47.43
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]

Search terms: Tool, Flake

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