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Lithic Sourcing |
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Archeologists guide to toolstone sources. |
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Novaculite is a sedimentary rock composed mostly of microcrystalline quartz and is a recrystallized variety of chert. It is dense, hard, white to grayish-black, pink, or redish in color, translucent on thin edges, and has a dull to waxy luster. It typically breaks with a smooth conchoidal (shell-like) fracture. The word novaculite is derived from the Latin word novacula, meaning razor stone. |
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Cretaceous Niobrara Formation |
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Niobrara, Smokey Hills Jasper, Republican River Jasper |
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Red Tool Stone |
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