and Calico Site percussion flaked artifacts dating 200,000 +/- 20,000 years B.P. This evidence is episodic: surface percussion flaked stone artifactsof the Lake Manix Industry dating to a minimum of 15,000 to 18,000 years B.P. The Manix Basin provides the greatest time depth of Early Man evidence in the New World. The crowd was huge!Įvidence For Middle and Late Pleistocene Man In South -Central Mojave Desert, San Bernardino County, California. The event was very successful and was covered by several local news papers. The prupose of the rendezvous was to flintknap, exchange ideas about lithic technology, demonstrate various techniques, and display replications. The event was the brain child of yours truly, Ray Harwood. The Northridge (California) Flintknapping Rendezvous was held at the Northridge Archaeological Research Center, on the C.S.U.N. Dabil (Beas'-wax chert) Jeanne Binning (obsidian) Ray Harwood (basalt, glass), Ted Harwood (basalt) Nancy Peterson (obsidian) Walter Clay Singer (quartzite),Fred E. Lithic Materials where supplied by: Terry P. Blanchard, Harry Smead, Roy Vande Hoch, Mike McIntire, Nancy Peterson Walter, Ted Bennett, Charlott Buetou, John F. Terry Caruso, Veeianne Rogers, Clay Singer, Erin J. Atwood, Jeanne Binning, Wright Huff, Ed Ryman, Alton Safford, Bryn Barabas, Fred E. Johnson, Annie Marilnnes, Eric Scott, John Bats, John E. Those kanppers who regestered on the morning of April 14th, 1984:ĭelores Hemphill, Chris Martinez, Terry P. Review of the first California Flintknapping Rendezvous.

Crabtree obsidian scalpel