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Common artifacts: Flakes
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- Research Laboratories of Archaeology
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- This photograph copyright ©1998. All Rights Reserved
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- Original image housed by Research Laboratories of Archaeology
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- Format: Photograph
- Date created: 1998–2003
- Location: North Carolina
- File: JPEG (44 KB)
- Size: 229×303
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- Excavating Occaneechi Town: An archaeology primer: Republished with permission from the Research Laboratories of Archaeology, the Archaeology Primer uses photographs of the excavations at Occaneechi Town to introduce fundamental concepts of archaeology. The primer provides an introduction to the methods of archaeology and to some common types of artifacts, and prepares students to participate in an electronic archaeological dig. (Page 37)
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Photograph of flakes found at the Occaneechi Town archaeological dig. Flakes are by-products of making chipped-stone tools. They usually are small, made of rhyolite or some other type of rock with conchoidal (glass-like) fracture properties, and have recognizable characteristics which allow them to be readily distinguished from unmodified rocks.