Pennsylvania Jasper
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 4 Apr 1991
name: label: Collector
content: J. D. Holland
label: Collector
content: Gary Fogelman
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-608 (Pennsylvania Jasper): Direct collection from outcrop. Not a collection from archaeological context. Known collection procedure. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, surrounding matrix, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-608 (Pennsylvania Jasper)
label: Notes
content: Pennsylvania Jasper is also known as Bowers, Durham, Hardyston, Hardyston Quartzite, Macungie, or Vera Cruz. It is yellow, brown, red, blue, white, black, dark gold (10YR 4/6), bright red (10R3/3), to dark brown (1.5YR 2/4). When heat-treated the yellow varieties turn red. May weather to a dull patina. May have veins of chalcedony, clay, or iron oxide inclusions. It has a coarse to fine texture. Deposits include beds or formations of sedimentary or metamorphic origin and also as pebbles and cobbles.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Cambrian/Ordovician, Form- Hardyston
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Outcrops in southeastern Pennsylvania extend some 60 kilometers from the Delaware River in Bucks County, through Lehigh and Berks counties to the Schuylkill River; Eastern portion of Pennsylvania in the Ridge and Valley Province, and in eastern coastal provinces of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland.
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: Projectile points were made of Pennsylvania Jasper in all cultural periods
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 25
place: label: Place
content: Bowers, Berks county, Pennsylvania, 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: 2071475
label: USNM Number
content: A599373-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone