Onondaga Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: Aug 1993
name: label: Collector
content: Jack Holland
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-1435 (Onondaga Chert): Direct collection from outcrop. Provenience includes bedorck and prehistoric quarry. Collection from archaeological context. Known collection procedure. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, surrounding matrix, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-1435 (Onondaga Chert): Site was culturally surveyed by Bud Parker for construction of a marina/launching ramp, etc. Bois Blanc also outcrops imediately north of the Onondaga Chert source. Both sides of the Grand River were heavily occupied prehistorically.
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content: Onondaga is also known as Black Rock, Buttermilk Falls, Central Onondaga, Clarence, Coniferous, Diver's Lake, Eastern Onondaga, Edgecliff, Moorehouse, Nedrow, Seneca, Upper Onondaga, and Western Onondaga. It can be gray, mottled gray, black or white. There is generally no color change when heat treated. However, it may turn red, purple or white when treated with extreme heat. It becomes white, pale blue, tan, or brown when weathered. It may have fossiliferous inclusions. It has a coarse to glossy texture. Deposits included bedded tabular and nodular in limestone, glacial, and alluvial gravel deposits. SEE ALSO: BLACK ROCK, BUTTERMILK FALLS, CLARENCE, EATERN ONONDAGA, EDGECLIFF, MOOREHOUSE, NEDROW, SENECA
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content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Late Devonian, Series- Erian, Group- Ulsterian, Form- Onondaga, Member- Seneca, Moorehouse, Nedrow, Clarence, Edgecliff.
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Lake Erie shoreline, Ontario, Canada; Buttermilk falls chert, PA; Niagara Frontier, NY; Esopus Creek. West Hurley, NY; northeastern and northwestern PA.
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content: Archaeology remarks: Used during all cultural periods; Arc Site, Genesee Co., NY, Paleoindian; Kilmer Site, Steuben Co., NY, Paleoindian; Meadowcraft Rockshelter
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 6
place: label: Place
content: Ontario, Canada, 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: A599298-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone