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Selby Bay Point (Otter Creek Point?)
dark gray chert, 1.75 inches long
Late Archaic Period 3500 to 2500 BC
Found May 14, 1988 in plowed field, Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
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Arrowhead
obsidian, 1 inch long
Anasazi Period
Found July 2006 on eroded hillside, Los Alamos County, New Mexico.
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Side-Notched Point
white quartz, 0.75 inches long
Early Archaic Period 7000 to 3000 BC
Found May 11, 1991 in plowed field, Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
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Datil Point
maroon and tan chert, 1.25 inches long
Early Archaic Period 6000 to 4000 BC
Found June 6, 1992 on desert surface, Hueco Mountains, Texas.
Morrow Mountain Point
white quartz, 1.75 inches long
Archaic Period 5000 to 3000 BC
Found May 21, 1992 in plowed field, Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
It was Camille's first archaeology field work and she found a projectile point. It is a side-notched point of Prairie du Chien chert.
Levanna Point
dark gray flint, 1 inch long
Late Woodland to Mississippian Period 600 to 1400 AD
Found September 29, 1993 in plowed field, Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
Madison Triangular Point
quartz, 0.75 inches long
Mississippian Period 900 to 1800 AD
Found May 21, 1989 in plowed field, Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
Wade Point
translucent quartz, 1.5 inches long
Late Archaic to Woodland Period 2500 to 500 BC
Found May 1, 1988 in plowed field, Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
This was the first point I found at a friend's farm after they plowed the field to plant corn. For many years I went back every spring after they plowed and never failed to find something. Now they have built a house over part of the land and let the rest of the field grow grass for hay so I can't collect there anymore.
Guilford Point
tan quartzite, 2.5 inches long
Early Archaic Period 5500 to 3000 BC
Found May 6, 1989 in plowed field, Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
Little Bear Creek Point
quartz, 2 inches long (broken and repaired)
Late Archaic to Late woodland Period 2000 BC to 500 AD
Bottom half found May 6, 1989 in plowed field, Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
Top half found May 1990 in plowed field, Anne Arundel County, Maryland
(Note: This point must have been broken by the farmer’s plow. I found the two halves in the same location one year apart. And it took me another year to realize they were two halves of the same point.)
Side-Notched Point
white quartz, 0.75 inches long
Early Archaic Period 7000 to 3000 BC
Found May 11, 1991 in plowed field, Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
These projectile points illustrate the wide variety of material types and forms that points in the state of New Mexico are found in. These particular points were recovered from the Deming highway salvage project in the southwestern portion of the state.
Armijo Series points come in a variety of types and date to the late Middle and early Late Archaic (ca. 4000-3000 BP).
Corner-Notched Point (Bassett Point?)
light gray chert, 2 inches long
Late Woodland or Mississippian Period 1000 to 1800 AD
Found spring 1986 on a hiking trail, northern Kettle Moraine, Wisconsin.
I was bringing up the rear while hiking with friends when I spied this point in the middle of the trail. It looked like one of the dry willow leaves that were scattered all over, but for some reason it caught my eye as being just a little bit different.
Looks like a Projectile Point but it was actually used as a plow point. Found in Richmond County, NC
projectile point, probable arrowhead, found at the north end of Crooked Crossing, Ottawa, by Ben & Evelyn Walker.
after the spring flooding of 2o19 redistributed the thin layer of soil & other particulates that underlies the north section of the lane directly over bedrock, various larger bits of stone, bone, glass, porcelain, metal & other material has continually surfaced as the path's surface is disturbed by use & rain.
this is the first pre-colonial artefact known to be found at this particular location. it is chipped semirandomly in red flint with a median-ridged excurvate blade with more or less horizontal shoulders over a flat-based straight stem, what would appear to be an Adena Narrow Blade (were it not so small, its total length not too much more than an inch), which suggests its manufacture at at least some 75o years ago.
personally, i suspect it of slightly more recent origin, considering the dovetail notches on both sides of the base, permitting its insertion into a corresponding notch in a wooden shaft, which detail i've failed to find illustrated as yet.
this is in no way to be regarded as fact but it's as close as i can get with the finding aids at hand.
Dovetail Point (St. Charles Point?)
tan and gray flint, 2.5 inches long
Late Archaic Period 2000 to 0 BC
Reported location: Jo Davies County, Illinois.
Arrowhead
obsidian, 1 inch long
Anasazi Period
Found July 2006 on eroded hillside, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Piedmont, RC, NC
I believe all of these are spear points. They are too big and heavy for arrow heads.
Petroglyphs inscribed on basalt by Native Americans of the Coso Culture. Most of the images in this area date from 2000 B.C. to about 1300 A.D. Little Petroglyph Canyon. Coso Range. Inyo Co., Calif. (This site is on land within the U.S. Naval Air Weapons Center at China Lake. Access is regulated by the Navy.)
Piedmont, RC, NC.
The large one is a spear point. The black one above is an arrow point as is the one at bottom right. I am not sure of the others. They could be large arrowheads or small spear points.
I found this projectile point in Indiana several years back. I had it dated by an archiologist at IU and it is around 3,000 to 5,000 years old.
A selection of finds from a probable Bronze Age building and associated pit, which included a large quantity of decorated pottery.
All of these points are from 1,500 to 5,000 years old. Made of white quartz and found over a one-year period on a small beach in Duxbury, MA.
Williams Point
petrified wood, 1.75 inches long
Middle Archaic to Woodland Period 4000 BC to 1000 AD
Reported location: Lake Livingstone, Texas.
These two projectile points are from my neighbor's collection who found them at the same location on the beach.
The San Jose Series dated to the Middle Archaic in the northern Southwest. Individual types vary in size and shape but all have a concave flaring base and most have a serrated blade (ca. 5000-3500 BP)
Obsidian Flakes. This lithic scatter or debitage has accumulated as a result of thousands of years of tool-making by Native Americans at this location. The ground here at the Pagunda village area is especially dense with obsidian. The source for nearly all of the obsidan here is Sugarloaf Mountain in the Coso Range several miles away. Little Lake Ranch. Rose Valley. Inyo Co., Calif. (This site is on private property and trespassing is prohibited.)
Halifax Point
white quartz, 1 inch long
Late Archaic Period 3500 BC
Found May 7, 2005 on hiking trail, Occoquan, Virginia.
Anne and I were spectators at a crew meet that Kelly was competing in. While we were hurrying along the trail through the woods to get from the starting line downriver to the finish line I noticed this white rock in the brown dirt and its shape immediately caught my eye. After I washed it off, it showed up as a nice little brilliant white projectile point. We looked for others, but just found ordinary rocks (and an old unfired .22 caliber bullet).
Lamoka Point
red and brown flint, 2 inches long
Late Archaic Period 300 to 500 BC
Reported location: Eastern US.
broken spear point (Bulverde Point ?)
coarse gray chert, 1.5 inches long
Mid Archaic to Woodland Period 3000 BC to 800 AD
Found August 1986 on shore of Rainy River, northern Minnesota (across international border from Canada). The upper right edge of the point has broken away, possibly as a result of an impact fracture when the point hit something hard.
re-worked scraper (from broken point)
white flint, 1.25 inches long
age indeterminate
Reported location: Jo Davies County, Illinois.
Now that's a great biface! We found in a stream, having lost its context.
Sent from my mobile. Enjoy.
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Flintknapping ban has been lifted, I came home and started on this #normanskill #flutedpoint I am covered in blood but i should reshape it a little and one flute did not travel far at all? Other side went to almost the tip. #paleoindian #paleo #clovis #arrowhead #projectilepoint #experimentalarchaeology #crafts #boomimback #lithics #newyorkchert. Thanks to the dude doing the knapping demonstration at #hammonassetstatepark for this chunk of normanskill. ift.tt/2h6RFL4
Orient Point
gray and red mottled flint, 2.25 inches long
Late Archaic to Woodland Period 2000 to 500 BC
Reported location: Jo Davies County, Illinois.
Obsidian Projectile Point made by Native Americans. If complete, this broken point would be about 5 inches long. This style of point is a Humboldt basal-notched biface. A point of this type would have been used on the tip of a thrusting spear -- a dispatching tool. A large biface like this may also have been used as knife. Little Lake Site. Rose Valley. Inyo Co., Calif. (This site is on private property and trepassing is prohibited.)
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Large flakes came off the middle preform biface. Might make a hardaway point #northcarolina #rhyolite #flintknapping #preform #hardaway #projectilepoint #paleo #paleoindian #paleolithic #experimental archaeology #crafts ift.tt/2jkwpDD
Petroglyphs of projectile points inscribed on basalt by Native Americans of the Coso Culture. Most of the images in this area date from 2000 B.C. to about 1300 A.D. Little Petroglyph Canyon. Coso Range. Inyo Co., Calif. (This site is on land within the U.S. Naval Air Weapons Center at China Lake. Access is regulated by the Navy.)