

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Archaeological Society of Delaware: New Castle Chapter Speaker Series
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 30 Mar, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Mon, 30 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Please join the Archaeological Society of Delaware (ASD) for our first speaker of 2026 on March 30th! Jack Cresson will be speaking to about the use of fire as an agency in prehistoric mining of toolstones. This is a research topic that began in the 1970’s, continuing today in 2026. At least 16 specific toolstones have been documented ethnologically or archaeologically to have been mined with fire.

More recently major strides have been made to record, document and experimentally test a variety of lithic materials. From 2018 to 2025 extensive experimental tests were conducted on several varieties of these common toolstones. These include sites in Papua New Guinea, Canada, Eastern North America and Norway attributed to hard rock outcrops, boulder isolates and boulder erratics. The materials range from quartzite*, (1) orthoquartzite, (5) quartz,( 1) chert, (2) rhyolite, (2) metarhyolite, (1) andesite (1) glaucophane schist (1) greenstone (1) and diabase (1). Other materials are suspected, including jasper, basalt and argillite. These are earmarked for future research, as are the massive *quartzite outcrops associated with the ancient Appalachia orogenies that produced a variety of quartzite toolstones including Erwin Antietam, Mount Rose, Chickies and Hardyston materials suspected to have been quarried with fire. This presentation will summarize this research 

This talk is sponsored by the Archaeological Society of Delaware as well as the Bear Public Library. It is free and open to the public!
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- **city**: Claymont
- **state**: DE
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Claymont Library
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- **full address**: Claymont Library, 400 Lenape Way, Claymont, DE 19703-3331, United States

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