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    Posted: 20-Mar-2008 at 01:15
Certainly... Big%20smile
The larger nodules are on the table but that bag is full of large flakes...
 
 
 
 
 
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Edited by Goban - 20-Mar-2008 at 01:36
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Beautiful obsidian. Expensive looking moose billet too.
 
You realise you paid less for all that obsidian than I paid on postage getting my lump to me.
 
 
 
Here's mine, before and after I've clobbered it.
 
Light blue touch paper and stand well back

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Originally posted by Paul

I know what you mean, they can be a little distainful of amateurs. One archaeologist I know did a re-escavation of a site. It had previously been escavated by antiquarians in the 1920's. The only mention he gave of the prior excavations on the site roports was "site sustained some damage in the 1920's"


As am amateur myself I agree with your dislike of the disdainful attitude of "experts." Though in the case of 1920s amateur antiquarians based on what I know of those types from those times one would think that such people not be very careful. *shrug*
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Posts: 211 		  Quote Odin Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21-Jun-2008 at 21:18
I adore this kind of stuff. I think seeing how ancient tools, weapons, buildings, etc. may have been made is incredibly fascinating. I remember watching a TV show showing how Archimedes' sunlight focusing "death ray" set Roman warships attacking Syracuse on fire, dang was that guy clever!!!
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