Awesomley beautiful lithic material: Rainy Buttes

[coteau]

I visited the scenic Rainy Buttes and got some Rainy Buttes Silicified Wood from the landowner. I wont be wasting it on flintknapping, this material is hard to come by.
Paleo Indians just loved this stuff, second to KRF.
Have you found any artifacts made of this material??

 

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[11KBP]

Rainy Buttes Silicified Wood.
I wont be wasting it on flintknapping, this material is hard to come by.
Paleo Indians just loved this stuff, second to KRF.
Have you found any artifacts made of this material??

You acquired some nice samples of the material.

It is nice looking stuff but it's not the extensive traveler KRF was.
Rainy Buttes artifacts are rarely found as far south from the source
as KRF artifacts are.

I have only seen one distant paleo point made from RB and it was
found in the north central part of Kansas.

11KBP

 

[joshuaream]

Pretty material. I don't recall ever seeing an authentic point made from that material.

I'm sure that's due to my unfamiliarity with that area, but to a lot of us that material is synonymous with old paleo-eBay-knappers.

 

[GatorBoy]

I mean no disrespect... but that is the only place I've seen 1

 

[coteau]

You acquired some nice samples of the material.

It is nice looking stuff but it's not the extensive traveler KRF was.
Rainy Buttes artifacts are rarely found as far south from the source
as KRF artifacts are.

I have only seen one distant paleo point made from RB and it was
found in the north central part of Kansas.

11KBP

Thanks for the info 11KBP!

 

[coteau]

Pretty material. I don't recall ever seeing an authentic point made from that material.

I'm sure that's due to my unfamiliarity with that area, but to a lot of us that material is synonymous with old paleo-eBay-knappers.

Yes, there are literally tons of Clovis and other Paleo repros made of RBSW. The landowner showed me a very nice Clovis repro that was made for him (you might know the knapper from Texas).

I have found two complete points (not sure how many brokes) made of RBSW, both are plains side-notched types, no Paleos.

At the Bobtail Wolf site (a Folsom site in the KRF quarry area) RBSW was the most common nonlocal stone (Root 2000:299).

 

[11KBP]

Yes, there are literally tons of Clovis and other Paleo repros made of RBSW. The landowner showed me a very nice Clovis repro that was made for him (you might know the knapper from Texas).

I have found two complete points (not sure how many brokes) made of RBSW, both are plains side-notched types, no Paleos.

At the Bobtail Wolf site (a Folsom site in the KRF quarry area) RBSW was the most common nonlocal stone (Root 2000:299).

I’m with you there. I have seem more modern made pieces of
that material than I have of authentic prehistoric artifacts.

Artifacts made of North Dakota RBSW were found at both the
Bobtail Wolf and the Big Black Folsom sites. However artifact
numbers made of RB at those sites were low even though they
are fairly close to the RB source.

"A pilot study using RBSW tools indicated that tool edges wore out
faster during wood and bone working than those of KRF." (Root, 2000).
This may be part of the reason why this material wasn’t used more than it was.

The use of RB seems to be very local to its source and is rarely mentioned
in archaeological references of the surrounding states of ND.

11KBP

 

[larson1951]

i think i have a few points made of that......a very very few...never new what it was
if i can locate something to compare i will post them
twitkos son might have found some of that a few weeks ago

 

[joshuaream]

Coteau and 11KBP,

Thank you for the great information.

Joshua

 

[coteau]

Here is a cast of a RBSW Folsom preform, I took this picture like 10 years ago.



Lithiccastinglab says it is "red chert" don't know the deal with that ??
http://lithiccastinglab.com/cast-page/2006februaryredfolsompreform.htm

 

[coteau]

i think i have a few points made of that......a very very few...never new what it was
if i can locate something to compare i will post them
twitkos son might have found some of that a few weeks ago

Yeah, show them if you got them. The points I found are solid dark purple/maroon without the lighter colored bands.

 

[larson1951]

i think this frame has some
what do you think?

 

[coteau]

Yeah, looks like there could be a few in there. RBSW is a very dense stone. It looks like there is some red Porcellanite and pink quartzite pieces in that frame also, but I'm just going by a visual guess...need to feel and hold them to know for sure, of course...
Thanks

 

[larson1951]

thanks coteau
since this frame is arranged into five courses would be possible for you to point out one or maybe two that look as if they were RBSW??
it looks like the middle course may have one or two?....and possibly the piece to the left of the white point on the bottom course?
i am interested in your valuable opinions

 

[11KBP]

thanks coteau
since this frame is arranged into five courses would be possible for you to point out one or maybe two that look as if they were RBSW??
it looks like the middle course may have one or two?....and possibly the piece to the left of the white point on the bottom course?
i am interested in your valuable opinions

Steve, I think Coteau would need individual close-up photos of the suspected
RBSW pieces in order to make a fair evaluation of material type.

11KBP

 

[larson1951]

does this help

 

[leprechaun]

Thats some nice looking flint you found,Also wanted to say those points Larson 1951 found look the same and very nice.

 

[larson1951]

now that i look at them, i think the center image might be jasper

 

[flintdigger]

The color of some of those points in the first photo look's very close in color.

 

[coteau]

Yes, they sure look like RB. I like 'em, I like that color..