Lithic Type Specimen: AN-2 Arkansas Novaculite, Variety 2
date: label: Accession Date
content: 30 Aug 2012
label: Collection Date
content: 1970 to 1990
name: label: Collector
content: Don R. Dickson
label: Donor Name
content: Don R. Dickson
notes: label: Notes
content: AN-2 (Arkansas Novaculite, Variety 2): This is a gray-black to coal black variety. The texture is fine to medium and the stone is knappable without heat treatment. In fact thermal pretreatment makes it unknappable. Subvariety 2-A is dark colored with darker manganese streaks going across the field. The black novaculite is found on Spanish Mountain, at the Harwood quarry and elsewhere near Hot Springs. Subvariety 2-B is black and gray combined. The gray is often noted near the outer cortex, the surface of which is usually tan. Sometimes black dendritic patterns are impressed on the tan outer surface.
label: Notes
content: Arkansas novaculite is of two classes: 1. Soft (or Washita), which is of early Mississippian age, and 2. Hard, which is of upper Devonian origin. Most of the novaculite varieties flaked by prehistoric knappers comes from the "lower" formation, of "upper," "middle," and "lower." Some consider these members of an Arkansas Novaculite -formation. There is great variation in the knappable novaculites, and the following varieties, while common, are not the only possible varieties. They are widespread throughout the Ouachita mountains.
label: Notes
content: Novaculite
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Jun 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Garland County, Arkansas, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2060436
label: USNM Number
content: A587108-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone