Several ORNL and University of Tennessee researchers are developing an analytical method for obsidian that has the potential of ensuring a precise means of dating archaeological sites. Prehistoric ...

The artifacts found at the site, which include obsidian arrowheads, bird bone whistles and abalone shell pendants, sat in the basement of Daly City’s city hall for 30 years before being moved to ...

WHEN RYAN GILL was 13, his father gave him a stave—or long stick—from a black locust tree, along with a single wood rasp. By the time his dad got home from work that evening, Gill was ...

Networks of colorful veins decorate nerve plant’s small leaves. The intricately patterned leaves are available in shades of ...

Over about 11,500 years, the stone has been fashioned into deadly knives, razor-sharp spear points, arrowheads and darts for atlatls, or spear-throwers. The obsidian columns of Yellowstone have ...

a variation that is more resistant than black obsidian and was used to make knives and arrowheads by the family, researchers said. Golden green obsidian was used to make knives and arrowheads and ...

They include Neolithic arrowheads, an obsidian blade from Anatolia, and the bronze cooking pot. But no scrolls. And so the digging continues. Dominican Father Jean-Michel de Tarragon studies ...

Dani’s interest in gemology began during her childhood in the Mojave Desert, where she searched for rose quartz, obsidian arrowheads and geodes. She went on to earn a B.A. in English and taught high ...

Locke pointed out that she would scour the hills for hours in search of tear drops and obsidian arrowheads as well as any Indian artifacts she could discover. Her collection includes grinding ...