Penters Chert
Description of Physical Characteristics:
Color: Penters
Chert ranges from a highly variegated with colors ranging from medium to
dark gray, bluish gray, grayish brown, and yellowish brown. May
also range to a slightly mottled chert ranging in color from a white to
pale gray or pale brown. Yellow mottling and chalcedonic veins are
commonly present.
Texture: Course to medium grain (mottled) or medium to
fine grain (variegated)
Luster: Dull (mottled) to waxy or glossy
(variegated)
Silica Fabrics / Fossils: Absent
Patina:
Heat Treatment:
Knapping:
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
Penters Chert is associated with the Penters Formation of Arkansas along
the Ozark escarpment. Primary outcroppings occur along the
northern side of the upper White River and found as cobble along the
lower White River. This is a local chert.
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Commonly made projectile point from this material:
Archaeological Context:
Penters Chert was a relatively unused material. It is rarely seen in
sites where the chert is available and not seen outside the source area.
Seen on the escarpment and the western lowlands.
