Made in several styles and sizes by the pre-Columbian Manufacturers and Distributors of Hoodoo and Conjure Supplies: Oils, Powders, Incense, Baths, Washes, Herbs, Resins, Colognes, Roots, Minerals, Curios, Books, Candles, Statuary, and Amulets.Īre the so-called phallic or penis-shaped charmstones of central and northern coastal California. The Lucky W Amulet Archive by catherine yronwodeĦ632 Covey Road, Forestville, California 95436Įmail: 7 Days a Week, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Pacific Time Later, early Holocene Stemmed Series peoples had a smaller, more limited foraging radius and more protracted mobility patterns procuring only Coso and Casa Diablo volcanic glass sources.Charmstone: A Native American Penis Amulet from California These late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers traversed enormous foraging territories and either directly accessed or traded for volcanic glass and fused shale from the Napa Valley, Casa Diablo, Coso, Mount Hicks, Mono Glass Mountain, Queen, and Grimes Canyon sources. Obsidian originated from no less than six (6) different source localities from 100 to 250 miles distant. Tracing studies of the early obsidian implements from Tulare Lake, in this study, indicate that Concave Base tradition foragers were far more mobile than the Great Basin Stemmed Series cultural expression. Eccentric crescents are apparently coeval with both Concave Base and Great Basin Stemmed Series points and have a lengthy temporal span from 13,500 to 7,000 years cal BP. Great Basin Stemmed Series points are of more recent age dating from ca. 13,500 to 10,000 years cal before present (BP). Obsidian tracing and dating indicate that Concave Base points are partly contemporaneous with Clovis age artifacts, although they have a far lengthier duration dating from ca. Results of these studies indicate that obsidian hydration dating is a useful tool even for very ancient artifacts of volcanic glass. Thirty-eight (38) artifacts from China (n = 5) and Tulare (n = 33) Lakes were chemically characterized to source and analyzed for their hydration measurements. An indirect means of obtaining such temporal parameters is the use of obsidian tracing and hydration dating. Until recently, no direct dates for the flaked stone materials found at either locality have been published (yet, see Basgall 2003, 2005a, 2005b). The Tulare Lake points appear to be a local variant of this same tradition. The range of variation for these points, typically assigned to the Great Basin Concave Base Series, has not been clearly defined. These projectiles are similar to Clovis points but are often smaller, somewhat thinner, are pressure rather than percussion flaked, and, most often, lack the distinguishing flutes (Rondeau 2005a, 2005b Rondeau et al. Some of these artifacts are basally thinned, Concave Base points (over 500). In Central California, projectile points hypothesized to date from these periods have been discovered in abundance at the Witt locality (CA-Kin- 32) on the southwest margins of Tulare Lake in Kings County in the southern San Joaquin Valley (Dillon 2002, Moratto 2000 Riddell and Olsen 1969 Wallace 1991). Thousands of artifacts dot the fossil shoreline on the desert floor of eastern Kern County at the interface of the Mojave Desert and the Great Basin near Ridgecrest (Davis 1978). A prominent locality for Paleoindian material is Lake China. Archaeological sites within the Great Basin and California appear to demonstrate that human occupation occurred in late Pleistocene and early Holocene times from ca.
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