Exercises: What can we learn from novaculite quarry sites?

After exploring the pages on novaculite quarries in Garland, Montgomery, Polk, and Hot Spring counties and recent whetstone mining:

High school students: Calculate the volume of a quarry pit that measures 15 meters by 10 meters by 1.5 meter deep. How many pits like this would have to be dug to yield a dump truck load of novaculite?
STEM Lab students: What technology was used to extract novaculite from bedrock sources? Write an essay about the extraction of novaculite from an engineering perspective.

Suggested citation format for this website:

Arkansas Archeological Survey 2016 "Arkansas Novaculite: A Virtual Comparative Collection."
http://archeology.uark.edu/novaculite/index.html (accessed January 15, 2016).

We welcome comments and feedback from you! For further information on this website, please contact Mary Beth Trubitt, Arkansas Archeological Survey, mtrubit@uark.edu.

This project is supported in part by a grant from the Arkansas Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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