Lithic Type Specimen: AN-3A Arkansas Novaculite, Variety 3A
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-3A (Arkansas Novaculite, Variety 3A): This is an opaque light to medium gray novaculite. The texture is usually medium, although some fine textured exists. This variety was normally heat treated. Subvariety 3-A is translucent and often of a finer texture. Sometimes one hand specimen will feature both the opaque and translucent gray novaculite. The variety is very common on Spanish Mountain and at many quarries around Hot Springs.
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, Translucent gray
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Jun 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Hot Springs 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: A587112-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone