#Flint is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 28 people shared 51 posts with it — around 2 a day. Activity is down 10% versus the previous week, peaking on Sep 2 with 5 posts.

Posts with #Flint

Tricia Dewberry

@triciawokeaf.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

#PeacefulProtests #NoKings #GentleAngryPeople #Resist #Flint #Michigan #GreatSign #StrongerTogether #June14th

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USA

@usamailbox.bsky.social

10 months ago

#StreetArt By 1440 in #Flint, #Michigan

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Durotriges Dig

@durotrigesdig.bsky.social

4 months ago

For #FindsFriday Some freshly recovered flint artefacts from the machine clearance of our new trench at #Durotriges26 I have a feeling we're not in Duropolis anymore 😱 #Neolithic #BronzeAge #Flint #Archaeology

Four pieces of worked flint held in the open hand of an archaeologist

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Prehistoric Wirral

@prehistoricwirral.bsky.social

9 months ago

🪨A collection of flint debitage or waste flakes created during the production of flint tools. These are from a Neolithic occupation site. Read more 📖👀👉🏻 prehistoricwirral.com/too…. #Archaeology #Lithics #Flint #Prehistory #Wirral

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Tricia Dewberry

@triciawokeaf.bsky.social

about 1 year ago

#WorkersOverBillionaires #Flint #Michigan #Resist #PeacefulProtests #GentleAngryPeople #Sept1st #LaborDay

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Patrick Kapty

@patrickkapty.bsky.social

3 months ago

Maya eccentric 'flint' obsidian late Classic period c. 550-900 CE Maya culture Mexico #handmade #carved #obsidian #flint #knapped #ceremonial #religion #offering #ritual #mayaculture #lateclassic #mexico #mesoamerica #precolumbian #prehispanic #ancientart #art #craft #sculpture #scepter #axe

Maya Eccentric Flint,
Late Classic, ca. A.D. 550 - 950
Delicately knapped with a royal figure wearing a serrated headdress and back rack, from obsidian.
An eccentric flint, an elite chipped artifact of an often irregular ('eccentric') shape produced by the Classic Maya civilization of ancient Mesoamerica. Although generally referred to as "flints", they were typically fashioned from chert, chalcedony and obsidian. Eccentric flints are among the finest lithic artifacts produced by the ancient Maya. They were very technically challenging to produce, requiring considerable skill on the part of the artisan. Large obsidian eccentrics can measure over 30cm in length. Their actual form varies considerably but they generally depict human, animal and geometric forms associated with Maya religion.
Most examples of eccentric flints have been recovered from caches interred under Maya monuments and buildings. Thus, a cache under the altar of Copan's stela M, at the foot of the Hieroglyphic Stairway, rendered three identical eccentric flints, each shaped like a human figure extending into a tang and evincing six human head outgrowths. Nine eccentric flints with human figures were found in an early Copan Temple room (Temple 16, Rosalila phase), and originally wrapped in a deep blue cloth, showing similar tangs. The presence of these tangs suggests that the examples concerned may originally have been set into a shaft or handle, possibly as the head of a sceptre or as the blade of a ceremonial axe. Some flint eccentrics were unsuitable for wearing or carrying and they may have been sculpted specifically to be buried as an offering.
Eccentric flints were first categorised by western archaeologists in Belize in the first half of the 20th Century, when they were identified as ceremonial in nature. Small obsidian eccentrics have been found at the great metropolis of Teotihuacan in the Valley of Mexico.

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Mr. P. Explores

@mrpexplores.bsky.social

about 1 year ago

The ravaged recesses of a library book storage room inside an abandoned high school in Flint, Michigan. The depth of the waste here is a true travesty. Also, sadly, a statement on how our country thinks of public education as a whole... #abandoned #urbex #EastCoastKin #photography #school #Flint

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Mr. P. Explores

@mrpexplores.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

The "Angels" Church, or "Blue Church" in Flint, Michigan, circa 2022. This old beauty sadly was torched by vandals in 2023 and is no more. #abandoned #urbex #EastCoastKin #Flint #Michigan #photography

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Blonde Okie

@blondeokie.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

Making an arrowhead from an old glass insulator #ARROWHEAD #flintknapping #glassinsulators #flint #kiln

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Colin Howey

@colinhowey.bsky.social

6 months ago

Black Tower: section of Norwich's medieval city wall running parallel with Carrow Hill #norwich #medieval #medievalcitywall #citywall #flint #tower #medieval #history #heritage #architecture #14thcentury

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ChaSE Project

@chalksea.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

Sponges are very common in the #Cretaceous Chalk of the 🇬🇧 and their fossilised skeletons were probably important for silica cycling & formation of #flint nodules. This week we've been databasing and selecting 100 specimens for re-dating, helped by our regular volunteer Neil Ireland. #FossilFriday ⚒️🧪