Collecting Onondaga Chert from the Source
Channel: Prehistoric Living
Date: 05/02/2019

This is a short video of my first trip to a good source of Onondaga chert, shared by a fellow knapper from Southern Ontario. I didn't have enough time to film the actual collection, but I will do lots of that in the future. After I got home I filmed some of the material I collected and outlined my plan for this series, which is to make a display case of all the representative projectile points from Southern Ontario. There's a lot, around 30 in total, spanning the Palaeo to Woodland periods (over 10,000 year of prehistory), so this will be a long term project. I'll add the videos into this playlist one at a time as I finish them. I'll need to make several more trips to the source to collect enough good stone to make everything I have planned, as what I have for now is pretty small and freeze cracked, but it's a good start. Hope you enjoy, please stay tuned!

Check out the other videos in the series:
Spalling Onondaga Chert - Part 1 of 3 - https://youtu.be/Bm-6l65KQWs
Spalling Onondaga Chert - Part 2 of 3 - https://youtu.be/k32pTSK_x7E
Spalling Onondaga Chert - Part 3 of 3 - https://youtu.be/BV1KxTSzIeY