In a message dated 1/25/01 9:42:58 AM Pacific Standard Time,
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<< as anyone
 come across any reference to something like this on later European sites?
 Native American Sites? >>
Kira, Depends on what you call "late"? Around here, contact period Kumeyaay
took broken dark green wine and lighter olive green wine bottle glass to make
Desert Side Notch arrowpoints at least as early as 1780 and as late at 1900.
There are numerous accounts of Apache using bottle glass and telephone pole
insulators for arrowpoints and cutting tools, including spectacular red glass
objects well into the 1880s. By the 1890s, steel seems too plentiful to
explain flaked glass. But hey, your farmers might have been flintknappers.

Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.