Ron:
        One of the most amazing projectile points I have ever seen is a beautiful
fluted clovis made from a scrap of porcelain toilet tank (c.1980)
        Dan W.

At 02:10 AM 1/26/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Yes Dan, but those glass scrapers make great discussion and further
>illustrate how narrow minded some of us are in defining tool kits. I recall a
>discussion at the Society for California Archaeology meetings just a few
>years back where we had Native Americans selecting broken wine bottle glass
>and Canton porcelain tradeware to knap into traditional arrowpoint styles.
>Some of our colleagues actually proposed this to be evidence of
>acculturation, while more sober archaeologists simply commented they were
>excellent datable items of traditional continuum with zero evidence of
>acculturation. Always good for discussion.
>
>Ron May
>Legacy 106, Inc.
>