Living in the southwest offers many types of lithics for artifacts and obsidian glass has to be the most prolific. Found in the largest deposits in North America, from northern Mexico thru Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Nevada, Oregon, California, Montana & Idaho. It's produced when felsic lava extruded from a volcano cools rapidly with minimal crystal growth.
I've been fortunate enough to gather some nice examples, like a baseball size chunk from Bandelier NM [my dad worked next door at Los Alamos & brought it home] to these small points [not all are ob] and a larger marekanite nodual [known to be the best quality/purest/hardest obsidian] like the 2.5" hammerstone from the Mule Ck area of SW New Mexico.
If you've got some nice examples post 'em up for folks to see, it's a pretty special material.
Puebloean/Mogollon [anasazi is not the
correct native american name for the time period]
Other lithic materials/tools from 12th century NMex
including a pottery polishing stone
A fine 2"+ uniface from the central eastern
dry lakes area of California
I've been fortunate enough to gather some nice examples, like a baseball size chunk from Bandelier NM [my dad worked next door at Los Alamos & brought it home] to these small points [not all are ob] and a larger marekanite nodual [known to be the best quality/purest/hardest obsidian] like the 2.5" hammerstone from the Mule Ck area of SW New Mexico.
If you've got some nice examples post 'em up for folks to see, it's a pretty special material.
Puebloean/Mogollon [anasazi is not the
correct native american name for the time period]
Other lithic materials/tools from 12th century NMex
including a pottery polishing stone
A fine 2"+ uniface from the central eastern
dry lakes area of California
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