While working
as an archaeological technician for the Forest Service this past summer, one of
my friends and coworkers taught me how to illustrate lithics. Artifact
illustrations are often taken for granted due to the modern bias towards photography.
However, a lot of small details get lost in photographs and are better
emphasized in clearly rendered sketches. Although These drawings are of lithics from America rather than the Old World, I am quite proud of them and would love to share them with you anyways. Though drawings of the projectile
points we found in the field were incredibly difficult to do quickly, I did get
to practice sketching the few flakes and stone tools I found around our
district office. Here are a few of my drawings~
Secondary flake, white chert
Secondary flake, opaque obsidian
Roughly worked early-stage biface
Roughly worked early-stage biface
Biface fragment, white chert
Biface fragment, opaque black obsidian
Unidentified projectile point fragment
Pinto series point, translucent obsidian
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