Lithic Sourcing

Archeologists guide to toolstone sources.

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Typically, the colors are different hues of red, pink, and purple with varying tints of green, gray and brown.

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Mozarkite can be found in several places in the Ozarks but sites near Lincoln in Benton County, Missouri are noted for collecting. Mozarkite occurs in the Cotter Dolomite of Ordovician age, which means it is some 450 million years old. It is found in residual boulders in the soil on hill slopes, along ditches, and in roadcuts where the boulders are exposed in the soil formed by weathering of the Cotter Dolomite.

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

E-mail: lithicsourcing@yahoo.com

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