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Object Number 990-10-10/14824
Display Title Black chert fragment
Descriptions
Inventory Description Black chert fragment
Classification
  • Stone
Department Archaeological
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Massachusetts / Middlesex County / Cambridge / Harvard Yard
Intrasite Vicinity of Massachusetts Hall
Materials Chert
Dimensions Overall: 3.8 × 2.6 × 1.8 cm (1 1/2 × 1 × 11/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 990-10-10/14824

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Stone
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Stone
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Prismatic blade
Turner Group; Ohio State Site # 33HA 26
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Knife
South America
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2000.1.100 Chipped stone, chipping debris, flakes, prismatic blades, and bifacial fragments, including chert and quartz
Prismatic blade
Biface
Flake
Chipping debris
Turner Group; Ohio State Site # 33HA 26
Worked chert fragment
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Modified Lithic
Raw Material
Panammatee Station
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Corner-Notched Projectile Point
Flake
Cave of Loltun
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Stemmed Projectile Point
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Image Not Available for Irregular chert fragment showing signs of use
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Modified Lithic
Billa Surgam Caves
Kanama Kindi Kottala
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83-44-10/32218 Chipped stone, projectile point, fragment, chert
Projectile Point
Edwards Mound Group; Ohio State Site #33H A7 (128; 42)
Chipped stone, chipping debris and one chert biface fragment
90-37-10/A186 Chipped stone, chipping debris and one chert biface fragment
Chipping debris
Biface
Turner Group; Ohio State Site # 33HA 26
Point (?) fragment of chert
40-80-10/22670 Point (?) fragment of chert
Stemmed Projectile Point
Raw Material
Grants Series, Site 6
Chipped stone, chert projectile point, tip fragment
90-37-10/A235 Chipped stone, chert projectile point, tip fragment
Projectile Point
Turner Group; Ohio State Site # 33HA 26