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One of my favorite parts of fieldwork is to implement the tools of the culture I am studying
A good archaeologist carries his own toolkit, mine has a couple of disposable cameras and a gps in it
From my geology instruction I am always picking up usuable rocks and stones for making arrowheads and spear tips
My favorite toolmaking source is obsidian but is hard to find
My archaeology training keeps me looking at the ground while I am walking anyway and its' amazing what will float to the surface during cold and rainy weather
Around my familys' estate in Tennessee theres a plant called arrowood which grows in straight segments and was what my Eastern Cherokee ancestors used for making arrowshafts and following the plow furrows in the fields after a good rain always yields a few arrowheads
I would be interested in any bow making technologies and my current area lacks a decent source of bow wood its' all brittle hardwood and not to flexible
Eastern Texas is famous for its' red soil which I attribute to a high iron content and most of the geologic specimens are reddish ironlooking rocks with really no shape to them
I have my west coast samples to work with and find something out of the ordinary occasionally
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Now there was a toolkit
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