#Lithic

[dire-vulture]

inspired by @fr-thrice ... butch obelisk share :D

[bandcampsnoop]

2/1/24.

Kerry Cardoza's "Best of Punk" article dropped the other day, and she won me over right off the bat with The Spatulas (Cambridge, Massachusetts). Miranda Soileau-Pratt is an East Coast transplant who originally hung around with Portland artists Lithic and Collate.

This is decidely low-fi pop. There's a definite K Records feel, but the vocals remind me more of Barbara Manning. And the overall sound is reminscent of a less loud but equally clanky Chronophage (the bands do share the fact that Post Present Medium has released some of their work).

Miranda Soileau-Pratt was also a member of Eugene, Oregon band The Blimp.

[housecow]

it drives me absolutely insane that people don’t realize the americas have been populated for over 20k years. like, i’m sorry. every professional, accomplished paleontologist and archaeologist i’ve taken a class from or spoken to treats this as a fact.

but for some reason, laypeople and the public in general refuse to accept it?? every time i see something about those footprints found in white sands, there are random ass ppl talking about the lack of evidence. when there is so much evidence. everywhere!! the gault site in TX is smthn i like to point out. not to mention the countless mammoth kill sites dating to over 15k years ago.

so you heard it from housecow here—the peopling of the americas is NOT as divisive as you’ve been led to believe and it is well known ppl have been here for over 20k years. its the methods of how and why that people are still trying to figure out

[micewithknives]

Top 5 stone tools (individual tools or types of tools either one works)?

Ooooh. Interesting.

1. 100% grindstones. All types. All in. I ADORE grindstones.

2. Glass Kimberley points (they’re just SO NICE)

3. Polished ground edge axes. Specifically basalt ones are very nice

4. Leilira knife macro blades are kinda fun.

5. I have a soft spot of horsehoof cores, I think probably because they were the first kind of lithic identification to actually make SENSE to me

[bigroadrunnerfan]

A little treat from my line of work, found in central Texas. Unfortunately not diagnostic, but if I had to make a guess on age, most likely 400-1000 years old based on size.

[uwlmvac]

Though archaeologists analyze individual artifacts, they want to understand how they relate to other artifacts, from the scale of an excavation unit or feature up to the entire site and even the wider region. A group of related artifacts is called an assemblage. The artifacts might be from the same site, or part of a site, or made from the same material, such as lithics or ceramics. These lithic artifacts made of silicified sandstone all came from the same unit during investigations at a site in west-central Wisconsin. The top left is a projectile point tip and midsection that seems to have been beveled from resharpening. It could date to the Archaic tradition. The top center is a drill. The top right and whole bottom row are Madison Triangular points, which likely date to the Late Woodland tradition. They were part of the lithic assemblage, which also included debitage (waste flakes and tiny chunks or shatter from flintknapping), microdebitage (smaller flakes and shatter, typically less than ¼ inch), modified flakes, and cores in the same unit and other units at the site. Taken together, the artifacts in the lithic assemblage suggest people at the site were making stone tools from the early stages of production, as shown by cores, flakes, and modified flakes, to finished implements, indicated by flakes and microdebitage from fine work to finish the edges of tools.

[loki-was-framed]

[soundgrammar]

Listen/purchase: Beat Fall by L I T H I C S

[omegaremix]

Spring 2020 Mixtape.

Lithics “Tower Of Age”

Self Defense Family “Jesus Of Nazareth”

Clamm “Beseech Me”

Emily Remler “Strollin’”

Human Impact “Contact”

Bikini Body “Hands Off”

Lana Del Rabies “Darcy” (Lav Andula RMX)

Tzusing “1976”

Damp “Death, Sex & Arby’s”

Georgia Maq “Away From Love”

Es “Hidden Track”

Mystique “No Excuse”

Horse Lords “The Radiant City”

Giant Swan “The Rest Of His Voice”

Jehnny Beth “I’m The Man”

Cleaners From Venus “The Jangling Man”

Pting “Boo”

Dave East “Godfather 4” (f. Nas)

Editrix “She Wants To Go And Party”

Gang Starr “Bad Name”

Snarls “Walk In The Worlds”

Kate Tempest “People’s Faces”

Shopping “All Or Nothing”

Turquoise Days “Grey Skies”

Skux “Kudis”

Control Top “Black Hole”

Free $$$ “Etc.”

Serfs, The “Caged And Bound”

Diat “Positive Energy”

Milly “Talking Secret”

Ekambi Brilliant “Mother Afrika”

M.A.Z.E. “Spread The Germicide”

Algiers “Can The Sub Bass Speak”

Future Punx “F Boys”

Necking “Big Mouth”

Ganser “Psy-Ops”

True Dreams “Please Sir”

Black Midi “BmBmBm”

Coriky “Clean Kill”

Stardeath & White Dwarfs “What Keeps You Up At Night”

Autumn “Night In June”

Miserable “Loverboy”

Districts, The “Cheap Regrets”

Seablite “There Were Only Shadows”

Ing self-titled

Power Alone “Self Fulfilling Prophecy”

Algiers “Dispossession”

Mikey Dread “Dread At The Controls”

Lithics “Hands”

Crumb “Ghostride”

Strobobean “Keep It Together”

Profligate “Jet Black (King Of The Road)”

Penelope Isles “Rounds”

Self Defense Family “Visit Scenic Western New York”

Serfs, The “Perverted Disco”

Future Islands “Day Glo Fire”

Help “Pennies On The Ground”

Nghtcrwler “Firestarter”

Lisel “Digital Light Field”

Zonal Wrecked

Pete Shelley “Homosapien”

Miserable “Fever”

Killing Joke “Hollywood Babylon”

Windy City “I Still Love You”

[pardomagus]

Artifacts recovered from the Miami Circle site now on display at the History Miami Museum in Miami, Florida.

[mineralsrocksandfossiltalks]

Science Saturday: Feldspars, Sandstones, and Dating

Did you know that you can use feldspars to tell you how old a rock is? Did you know they can tell you about how long a paleo river is?

That's okay! Let me tell you about it then! So, due to the unstable nature of feldspars they can be used in a special method to date rocks called luminescence.

Luminescence dating is used to determine how long ago mineral grains were last exposed to light.

This is generally only used for surface dating usually in storm or tsunami deposits so scientists can see how much sediment gets moved.

As for river length, here's how we figure that out. River's deposit sand. Over time, sand is compressed into sandstone. Sandstones are categorized by the amount of quartz, feldspar and lithics (rock fragments) that are present.

Arkose or arkosic sandstone refers to sandstone with at least 25% feldspar composition. Arkose usually forms from the weathering of granite and must be deposited rapidly to avoid hydrolysis (check out last Science Saturday).

Now, because it has to be deposited quickly, this means that arkose occurs very close to the source rock. We call this a texturally immature sandstone.

Not that kind of immature. Immature in the sense that it got buried young. If you look at a river diagram, arkose occur near the head of the river either in conglomerates or very course sands. By the time you get the river delta, usually all that is left is quartz.

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[dieletztepanzerhexe]

Women in traditionally male dominated professions such as flint knapping 😍❤️👍

[thewynne]

The elementary episode where Holmes hands Watson a list of 'every artifact' found at a major excavation of a temple complex with 9 separate buildings and it's like. 2 single sided pages.

That.

That's not how that works.

[petrichorvoices]

[image ID: two photos of a small obsidian projectile point laying on a desk. end ID]

hello archaeology community on Tumblr, look what i made in class today during my archaeology lab

[teeter-beetle]

Prehistoric Preparations

Archaeologists recovered the nearly 2000-year-old toolkit last February.

The kit, once belonging to a nomadic hare, consists of two flint hand-blades, four cactus spine spears, and a carved wooden shield.

The remains of the hare were also "pretty nicely preserved, actually." (Source: Prof. Ein Gastort)

Stay up-to-date, or learn more about hare nomads, at frogiverse.com

[uwlmvac]

This reconstructed biface brought together not just three pieces of a broken artifact but two sites on a northern Wisconsin reservoir as well. Red arrows point out the cracks where the three pieces match up on the two broad sides of the biface. The tip of the biface (to the left of the large double arrow) was found at one site during a survey in 1989, and the two adjoining pieces of the midsection and base (on either side of the small double arrow) were collected from the second site farther east in 2012. The refit indicated a direct connection between the two sites, and they were reclassified as one in the Wisconsin Historical Society’s archaeological site database. The sites likely were recorded as two separate ones during initial survey in 1989 largely because of higher water levels in the reservoir, which flooded the land between the sites but left two separate rises visible.