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Projectile Points Projectile points vary a great deal in size, shape, and workmanship, and it is from such characteristics archaeologists are able to suggest the time period when certain types of points were in use. The smaller sized dart points overlap with the larger sized arrow points and commonly one cannot be certain with regard to the classification of a particular point. Arrow points are small sized and light weight projectile points, usually less than 35 mm in length and with a narrow stem or hafting width. www.ou.edu /cas/archsur/OKArtifacts/points.htm   (626 words)

Projectile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Items like arrows, hand darts, and spears are generally tipped with sharp metallic or lithic artifacts called projectile points that allow them to more easily penetrate a target, although some types of arrows used for hunting are designed to stun or kill through shock rather than to penetrate. Projectiles designed to be non-lethal, for example for use against riots, include rubber bullets and flexible baton rounds. Among projectiles which do not contain explosives are railguns, mass drivers, and kinetic energy penetrators, in addition to smaller weapons such as bullets. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Projectile   (538 words)

White Dove's Native American Indian Site Arrowheads In some cases a projectile point was not used at all, and a wooden shaft was simply brought to a sharp point, an enlarged piece of wood (or bunt point) was used effectively on birds and small mammals. Projectile points changed gradually over time, and although some types are often difficult to distinguish, if a large sample of points is recovered in a good geologic context and can be assumed to have been made by one cultural group, an archaeologist can usually determine, within limits, both the culture and the time period represented. Although these small projectile points were often referred to as bird points or small animal points, thousands of them have been recovered on the Great Plains at sites of buffalo jumping and trapping during the bow-and-arrow period, a fact that demonstrates the lethal qualities of such points on large animals. users.multipro.com /whitedove/encyclopedia/arrowheads.html   (1063 words)

mass When point mass was increased to 11.5 grams or decreased to 7.5 grams overall distance decreased by 3 to 7 yards from a maximum of approximately 120 yards. Projectile points of these other materials can be made to have the same mass as stone points, but they would be larger and less efficient and therefore less desirable than stone. In experiments conducted in hafting projectile points I have found that the glue, sinew bindings, and the surrounding wood of the notch itself add an average of one gram to the overall mass of the point. www.onagocag.com /mass.html   (2896 words)

PROJECTILE POINTS Tanged points are projectile points that have a tang at one end to facilitate hafting. Bifacial triangular points are bifacial projectile points that are retouched on both surfaces and triangular in shape. Bifacial lanceolate points are bifacial projectile points that are retouched on both surfaces and lanceolate i.e. www.hf.uio.no /iakk/roger/lithic/PROJ.html   (410 words)

What are Projectile Points? -- Illinois State Museum In archaeology, the term projectile point refers to a class of pointed, chipped, and ground stone objects that were once fastened to a wooden shaft and propelled by a hand-held thrusting or throwing motion, or by a hand-held devices that launched the stone-tipped wooden shaft into flight. Projectile points made for lances and spears tend to be the largest, and thus the heaviest. Dart points are generally smaller and lighter, and arrow points are the smallest and lightest projectile points. www.museum.state.il.us /ismdepts/anthro/proj_point/What_are_projectile_points.html   (165 words)

Cumberland Point   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) The Cumberland Point is a Paleoindian projectile point that was most commonly used during the Transition Period in North America. It was a projectile point made out of chert which was a hard rock that could be chipped away by using antler to make razor sharp edges. These points were manufactured with barbs at the base and fluted from the tip to the base. www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/archaeology/artifacts/cumberlandpoint.html   (233 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) Projectile points are perhaps the most commonly recognized of archaeological tools or artifacts. One reason projectile points stand out among stone tools is because they are very stylized to show clear differences between their makers, who lived in different times and places. Projectile points are thus an indicator of social variability and tradition; in the puna where mobility of groups was limited, style became localized within small groups. www.stanford.edu /~johnrick/preceram/points_tools.html   (281 words)

OfOBPP.htm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) Projectile points in various sizes and forms (Photo) were found in almost all graves at the Feathered Serpent Pyramid. Projectile points found outside the pyramid were well preserved, while those found inside the pyramid were often fragmented and dispersed due to the placement of rocks over the burials. In addition, twenty-eight projectile points were discovered by the our project in front of the staircase of the Feathered Serpent Pyramid as caches or as grave offerings removed from their original contexts. archaeology.la.asu.edu /teo/fsp/Offer/ofobpp.htm   (372 words)

[No title] Projectile points of the Early Archaic transition are medium to large in size. Traits particularly diagnostic of projectile points from this period are steep alternate edge sharpening of the blade which creates a very angular, rhomohedral cross-section, the removal of small thinning flakes along the basal edge, and heavy grinding along the haft element edges. Projectile points from this period are highly variable and often reflect the sphere of influence to which the owner had been directly or indirectly exposed. www.tcinternet.net /users/cbailey/lithic1.html   (4990 words)

The Distribution of Fluted Paleoindian Projectile Points:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) Finally, besides the limitations of the projectile point data sample itself, the patterning observed on these maps may also be influenced by factors such as differential geological visibility, modern population density and farming activ ities, and differences in lithic resource availability. Classic Clovis points are made from bifa ce preforms, generally with flakes traversing the entire face of the biface, although some points from early contexts have flaking scars meeting in the middle of the blade. Dense concentrations of points occur in the East in portions of the Tennessee, Cumberland, and Ohio River valleys, or in the karstic terrain of northwest Florida. www.adp.fsu.edu /aenaf.html   (10506 words)

Intrigue of the Past: Lesson 4.3 Projectile point: a pointed implement (usually made from chipped stone) that was attached to the end of a spear or an arrow. Projectile points are usually given their names by archaeologists or collectors, and not by the Native American people who used them. Students use illustrations of the projectile points from each bag and the "Chronology of Archaic Projectile Points" activity sheet to complete the profile map by filling in the blanks for soils, points, and dates. rla.unc.edu /lessons/Lesson/L403/L403.htm   (1969 words)

Point Guide Projectile points are tips fastened to the ends of spears, darts, and arrow shafts. For example, contracting stemmed points are called Waubesa in Wisconsin and the Upper Mississippi Valley, and nearly identical points are called Belknap or Dickson in Illinois and Gary points to the south and east. Point makers in general were conformists and manufactured tips according to prevailing culturally accepted styles. www.uwlax.edu /MVAC/PointGuide/PointGuide.htm   (2002 words)

[No title] This article is designed to introduce a few of the better known styles of projectile points found in Minnesota and the Upper Midwest, and thus allow you to appreciate the very distinctive style of the large tanged points, originally made of copper, represented in carvings at the Jeffers Petroglyphs in southwestern Minnesota. The particular style of the majority of projectile points represented in the petroglyphs was used by Gordon Lothson (1976), citing the work of Jack Steinbring (1970), to date some of the Jeffers rock art to the "Old Copper Age" or Late Archaic period (approximately 3500-2500 years ago). The relevance of lithic and copper point research to rock art generally is that stylistic analysis of projectile points is a part of the current basis for the dating of the Jeffers Petroglyphs. www.tcinternet.net /users/cbailey/lithic2.html   (806 words)

Effects of Stone Projectile Points Prehistorically, the concept of making smaller projectiles travel faster can be generally traced in the study of stone projectile points, with heavier points generally occurring earlier and lighter points occurring more recently in the archaeological record. In testing the mass of the points on a digital scale, allthree projectile points were found to weigh essentially the same at 7.6, 7.7, and 7.8 grams, respectively. Projectile points made from other materials can be made to have the same mass as a stone point, but they would be larger, less efficient and, therefore, less desirable than stone. www.abotech.com /Articles/perkins04.htm   (4955 words)

Projectile Points Bibliography -- Tennessee Archaeology Net Some locations of projectile point information on the internet are included as appendix A at the end of this bibliography. Copeland, J.M. and R.E. Fike 1988 Fluted Projectile Points in Utah. Cruxent, J.M. 1970 Projectile Points with Pleistocene Mammals in Venezuela. www.mtsu.edu /~kesmith/TNARCHNET/Pubs/pointbib.html   (11342 words)

Browns Valley Projectile Point Folsom points are generally shorter and wider than the preceding Clovis points, although they retain the channel fluting, which extends nearly the length of the entire point. The base of Browns Valley projectile points are usually concave and heavily ground to prevent splintering of the dart or spear shaft upon impact, and in place of the earlier channel flute, the base is thinned with a number of shorter and thinner flakes removed around the basal margins. A multitude of unused projectile points, (which were apparently broken during the fluting process,) attests to the difficulty in the manufacture of a finished fluted point. www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/archaeology/artifacts/brownsvalley_projectilepoint.html   (411 words)

Southern Ontario Projectile Points - London Chapter North Carolina Piedmont #1 Projectile Points of the North Carolina Piedmont, H. Trawick Ward, The Research Laboratories of Archaeology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Minnesota Projectile Points of Minnesota, Daniel K. Higginbottom, University of Minnesota. Southwest (Archaic) Archaic Pprojectile Point Typology in the North American Southwest, Bruce Hucknel, University of New Mexico And University of California at Berkley. www.ssc.uwo.ca /assoc/oas/points/sopoints.html   (533 words)

Mesa Site Projectile Point The more than one hundred projectile points that were found on the Mesa site are very similar to Agate Basin points, although they seem to average slightly smaller. These projectile points were most probably hafted on spears and thrown with an atlatl or throwing stick. The "Mesa points" are lanceolate in outline and have heavily ground or smoothed basal edges where they were hafted to a spear. lithiccastinglab.com /cast-page/mesapoint1cast.htm   (602 words)

Bullen Point Typology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) Notes in his personal "Projectile Point Typology" file folder curated at the Museum indicate that he already was gathering data for the Guide at least by 1957. He also knew that the use of outline-drawings of the points was not as satisfactory as more comprehensive illustrations or photographs, but his desire to produce a publication that was low-cost overrode that concern. In his Projectile Point Typology file folder is a copy of pages 13-14 of the Eastern States Archaeological Federation Bulletin 26 issued in 1967. www.flmnh.ufl.edu /flarch/bullentype.htm   (822 words)

Projectile Points Glossary -- Illinois State Museum Hafting area - the portion of a projectile point secured to a spear, dart, or arrow shaft. Flintknappers notch projectile points to create a different way to attach the point to the spear, dart, or arrow shaft. Corner-notched point - a point with indentations placed where the side of the blade and the base of the point meet. www.museum.state.il.us /ismdepts/anthro/proj_point/points_glossary.html   (209 words)

The Woodland Period in the North Carolina Piedmont Anyway, projectile points seemed to lose their "tails" and become lanceolate (6). Now these projectile points were definitely made for the bow (true arrowheads). The triangular points are known as triangular points (at least by me). home.sprintmail.com /~dingodog/woodland.html   (490 words)

ax2532aq.aw Chandler, C.K. Paleo-Indian Projectile Points From San Patricio County, Texas. Chandler, C.K. Paleo-Indian Projectile Points from Kendall County, Texas. Chandler, C.K. Metal Projectile Points From Medina County, Texas. anthropology.buffalo.edu /Documents/pointbib   (1916 words)

Point Types Indexed by Shape Each point shows one half of the shape and is so lettered. Some point types will appear under more than one shape due to their diversity of outline. Additionally, point types may not yet have photographed examples of all possible shapes ie: Straight, Contracting and Expanding. members.aol.com /artgumbus/byshape.html   (250 words)

North Carolina Archaeology - Projectile Points   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) NOTE: This chart, appearing in Trawick Ward's chapter in the Prehistory of North Carolina: An Archaeological Symposium (1983), shows the major projectile point types found in the North Carolina Piedmont. An excellent source of information on the point types found in the mountain region is Gary Henry's "Key to Projectile Points of the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina", in Southern Indian Studies (Vol. For instance, the Paleo-Indian and Archaic period "cut-off" is shown at around 8000 B.C., with the Palmer type tentatively placed in the latter part of the Paleo-Indian period. www.arch.dcr.state.nc.us /points.htm   (282 words)

NativeTech: POINT: Projectile Point Classification Program POINT is a type/matching program written by Tara Prindle for the IBMPC (MSDOS). Morphological attributes of projectile points are input by the user and the program finds matching type names and provides estimated date ranges. POINT uses Ritchie's (1970) and Dincauze's (1976) projectile point type descriptions. www.nativetech.org /stone/pointprogram/index.php   (131 words)

sell.com classifieds : Projectile Points of the Midwest book Indian Arrowhead for sale in Kansas City (2TSS2) Small stone tools and arrow points are among the few remaining traces of human history stretching back over 10,000 years. This convenient guide to the projectile points that can be found in the Midwestern United States is designed for use as a field reference. It provides a type name and a short description of the physical characteristics, age, and distribution for the most frequently found styles of projectile points. www.sell.com /2TSS2   (355 words)

Untitled Page Projectile points are the stone (sometimes bone) tips hafted onto dart, spear, and arrow shafts. For example, a small, corner-notched arrow point found near Lake Tahoe would be called a “Rose Spring” point, while a very similar artifact found in Mendocino County would be called a “Rattlesnake” point. However, trying to fit a particular type of projectile point into a specific time range can be misleading, at best. www.indiana.edu /~e472/cdf/training/primer/projectilepoints.html   (569 words)

Projectile Points On the right is a projectile point made from quartzite. To kill animals with a strong point it is necessary that the point be as sharp and Almost 15% of the projectile points found at Aztalan were the notched variety. www.madison.k12.wi.us /whitehorse/ss/project.htm   (590 words)

anthro-l: october-1994: Projectile Point Bibliography Fogelman, Gary L. 1988 A Projectile Point Typology for Pennsylvannia and the Northeast. 1982 Fluting of Folsom Projectile Points in Agate Basin. Ritchie, William A. 1961 A Typology And Nomenclature For New York Projectile Points. unauthorised.org /anthropology/anthro-l/october-1994/0077.html   (3031 words)

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