Native American Tallahatta Quartzite Stone Quarry Site in East Central Mississippi

This video shows a visit by several Mississippi archaeologists, including Kenneth Carleton, to a tallahatta quartzite quarry site in east central Mississippi. This video was filmed in July of 2007.

This Native American archaeology site has been used for over 10,000 years as a quarry for knappable stones in the area. The quarried stones were used to make a wide variety of tools.There are lithics (stones) scattered over a wide area around the main outcrop. This stone is also called Tallahatta Sandstone by some archaeologist. The site is on a small creek and the rocks were very slippery.

My blog post with more information and pictures about this rare site is: http://miss-archaeology.blogspot.com/2007/08/tallahatta-quartzite-quarry-site...

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• Mississippi Archaeology
• archaeology
• tallahatta quartzite
• tallahatta sandstone
• lithics
• Native American tools