"North American Indian Artifacts... Authentication and Restoration Services"
Welcome to RGArtifacts, the official website of Great Basin artifact specialist, Roger Gidney. Our main focus resides in the authentication of Great Basin/Far Western Region projectile points and restoration of all native American projectile points.
Authentication Services
With Decades of experience in the field, and countless long hours of hands on study of ancient Great Basin and Western region Native American point types, RG Artifacts is the qualified place to have your relics authenticated. Visit our Authentication page for more.
Restoration Services
RG Artifacts is pleased to offer restoration of projectile points from all regions and most all materials including obsidian, chert, jasper, and chalcedony. Visit our Restoration page for more.
History
Roger Gidney has lived within "the Great Basin" his whole life (54 yrs.) and has a passion and a deep respect for the Native American culture, history and artifacts that grows with intensity more and more each passing year.
Roger has been a taxidermist for almost forty years and specializes in the mounting of gamebirds. Click on this link to learn more about these services also: Cedar Glen Wholesale Bird Taxidermy
Roger spent a good portion of his younger life living on the shores of the mighty Columbia River in a town called Rainier, Oregon near "The Trojan Site" cutting his teeth (so to speak) in the Pacific Great Northwest.
He now resides in Victorville, California in the high desert (Mojave desert) approximately eighty miles northeast of Los Angeles, and approximately 40 miles south of "The Calico Early Man Site!" The Mojave desert is rich with Native American history including tribes such as Paiute, Serrano (mountain dwellers), the much feared Mojave Indian tribe, and even the very controversial "Early Man Site" in a town called Yermo near Barstow, California. The Mojave desert even boasts of the well known "Newberry Cave" which produced split twig figurines as a very key part of its yield, pleistocene dry Lake Manix, dry Lake Mojave (type site for the Lake Mohave point) with the pinto basin nearby (type site for the Pinto point), and even borders on the rich Owens Valley. Please feel free to e-mail with any questions concerning these areas.
Roger is a self taught flint knapper and he has explained that "being a flintknapper opens up a whole new world of insight and understanding concerning the flintknapping process and the resulting artifact! You are just more familiar with, and aware of what you're looking at when evaluating a piece.You learn first hand about the striking platform, point of percussion, the bulb of percussion, the bulb (bulbar) scar, and the conchoidal fractures (shockwaves or ripples) that follow. I can look at debitage (flakes, chips, debris) on the ground and tell you why it looks the way it does, whether it was a thinning flake, a fluting flake, etc. Having these skills gives you a definite advantage over those who don't flintknapp!"