Lithic Sourcing

Archeologists guide to toolstone sources.

Bibliography

Carlson, Ernest H. 1987. Flint Ridge, Ohio: Flint facies of the Pennsylvania Vanport Limestone. In, North-Central Section of the Geological Society of America Centennial Field Guide 3, edited by D.L. Biggs, pp. 415-418.

 

Clark, Francis 1984. Knife River Flint and Interregional Exchange. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 9(2):173-198.

 

Clayton, Lee, W.B. Bickley, Jr. and W.J. Stone 1970. Knife River Flint. Plains Anthropologist 15(50):282-290.

 

Dickson, Don R. 1991. The Albertson Site: A Deeply and Clearly Stratified Ozark Bluff Shelter. Research Series No. 41. Arkansas Archeological Survey, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

 

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Hudson, Mark R., Murray, Kyle E. 2003. Geologic Map of the Ponca Quadrangle, Newton, Boone, and Carroll Counties, Arkansas.

 

Loendorf, Lawrence L, Stanley A. Ahler and Dale Davidson 1984. The Proposed National Register District in the Knife River Flint Quarries in Dunn County, North Dakota. North Dakota History: Journal of the Northern Plains 51(4):4-20.

 

Loosle, Byron 2000. The Acquisition of Nonlocal Lithic Material by the Uinta Fremont. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology Vol. 22, No. 2, pp 277-294.

 

Norby, R.D., 1994. Stratigraphic and biostratigraphic framework of the Ullin Limestone ("Warsaw") and Fort Payne Formation, IN Lasemi, Zakaria, and others, Waulsortian mounds and reservoir potential of the Ullin Limestone ("Warsaw") in southern Illinois and adjacent areas in Kentucky: Illinois. Geological Survey Guidebook Series, no. 25, p. 26-32

 

Ray, Jack H. 2007. Ozarks Chipped Stone Resources: A Guide to the Identification, Distribution, and Prehistoric Use of Cherts and Other Siliceous Raw Materials.  Missouri Archeological Society, Springfield, Missouri.

 

 

MAS Special Publication #8, Ozarks Chipped Stone Resources: A Guide to the Identification, Distribution, and Prehistoric Use of Cherts and Other Siliceous Raw Materials, by Jack H. Ray. 2007

This book is the product of more than 25 years of research on toolstone materials in the Ozarks. The book also has three appendices, including color illustrations of the major types and varieties of lithic resources that were used prehistorically.

The publication is available for purchase by contacting the MAS office. Purchase price is $45.

Contact:

Diana Rose Angelo, M.A., R.P.A.

E-mail: lithicsourcing@yahoo.com