Lithic Sourcing

Archeologists guide to toolstone sources.

Hixton Silicified Quartzite

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Contact:

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

E-mail: lithicsourcing@yahoo.com

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Silver Mound Archeological District - 47JA21 - Jackson County, WI

 

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Bibliography:

Brown, Charles E.

1907 Wisconsin Quartzite Implements. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters 15:655 – 663.

 

Carr, Dillon

2001 Late Paleoindian Lithic Raw Material Resource Use in Western Wisconsin. Unpublished Bachelors Thesis on file at the Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center at the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse.

 

Julig, P. J., L. A. Paulish, and R. G. V. Hancock

1987 Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis of Archaeological Quartzite from Cummins Site, Thunder Bay: Determination of Geological Source. Current Research in the Pleistocene Vol. 4:49-61.

 

Julig, Patrick J., D. F. G. Long, and R. G. V. Hancock

1999 Cathidoluminesence and Petrographic Techniques for Positive Identification of Quartz Rich Artifacts from Late Paleo-Indian sites in the Great Lakes Region. Wisconsin Archaeologist 79(1):68-88.