Does this point look promising to have authenticated or is it a modern reproduction
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Yeah I realized what I said when it was to late I meant it not porous like your more traditional flintAgate is a type of flint and is chert or quartz. Usually considered as Chalcedony it is still a type of flint, chert, quartz.
The biface Todd pictured looks more traditional with that dull surfaceYeah I realized what I said when it was to late I meant it not porous like your more traditional flint
Mexican in backwoods villages make reproduction high value "Mayan" ceramics, using common stuff old they dug, grinding them up and putting them in the right base clay...evidently it does something to help "authenticate" ageing.It wasn't an auction it was at an estate sale in a box of megalodon teeth it was wrapped in an old deteriorating newspaper from the 1958