Arrowheads and Spear Points in the Prehistoric Southeast: A Guide to Understanding Cultural Artifacts PDF
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Arrowheads and Spear Points in the Prehistoric Southeast A Guide to Understanding Cultural Artifacts This page intentionally left blank Arrowheads and Spear Points in the Prehistoric Southeast A Guide to Understanding Cultural Artifacts By Linda Crawford Culberson Illustrated by Jim University Press of Mississippi Culberson Jackson All artifacts in this book ore depicted In their actual size unless otherwise noted. Copyright © 1993 by the University Press of Mississippi All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Designed by Sally Hamlin The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Culberson, Linda Crawford, 1953- Arrowheads and spear points in the prehistoric southeast : a guide to understanding cultural artifacts / by Linda Crawford Culberson ; illustrated by Jim Culberson. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87805-643-2 (alk. paper). - ISBN 0-87805-638-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) I. Indians of North America-Southern States-Implements. 2. Indians of North America-Southern States-Antiquities. 3. Stone implements-Southern States-Classification. 4. Arrowheads —Southern States-Classification. 5. Projectile points-Southern States-Classification. 6. Southern States-Antiquities, I. Title. E78.S65C85 1993 975'.01-dc20 93-8455 CIP British Lib'ary Cataloging-in-Publication data available Contents Illustrations 7 Preface 1 1 Acknowledgments 13 1 Some Basic Principles of Archaeology 17 2 The First Immigrants 30 3 The Paleo-lndians 40 4 The Archaic Stage 48 5 The Woodland Stage 62 6 The Mississippian Stage 71 Glossary 77 Appendixes A. Additional Projectile Points 81 B. State Archaeologists in the Southeast 83 C. Museums with Southeastern Archaeological Collections 87 Bibliography 103 Index 1 1 3 5 This page intentionally left blank Illustrations Projectile point terminology 25 Direct percussion flaking 26 Indirect percussion flaking 27 Pressure flaking 28 Scraper 28 Grooved ax manufactured by peck and grind method 28 Shovel-shaped incisors and 4 + molar cusp pattern in upper jaw 31 5-Y molar cusp pattern in lower jaw 31 Extent of Beringia in the Western Hemisphere 32 Laurentide and Cordilleran ice sheets 35 Monte Verde, Chile and the Perada Furado Rockshelter, Brazil 38 Clovis point 46 Cumberland point 46 Plainview point 46 Agate Basin point 46 Beaver Lake point 46 Suwannee point 47 Quad point 47 Dalton point 50 Side Notched Dalton point-Greenbriar variety 50 Hardaway point 51 7 San Patrice point 51 Kirk Corner Notched point 51 Pine Tree Corner Notched point 52 Morrow Mountain point 52 Stanly Stemmed point 53 Ungrooved ax or celt 53 Beginning to throw a spear with an atlatl 54 Having thrown a spear with an atlatl 55 Bannerstone 55 Gorget 56 Two plummets 56 Pendant 56 Stone mortar and grinding stone 56 Steatite bowl 56 Cooking balls 57 LeCroy point 57 Eva I point 57 Eva II point 57 Benton Stemmed point 58 Gary points 58 Ledbetter Stemmed point 58 Pickwick point 59 Saratoga Broad Bladed point 60 Saratoga Parallel Stemmed point 60 Saratoga Expanding Stemmed point 60 Savannah River point 60 Turkeytail point 60 Delhi point 60 Wade point 60 Stemmed or hafted scraper 60 Two Microliths 60 Bone awl 61 Jar form DOttery 65 Shallow bowl 65 Rimmed bowl 66 Tripodal bowl 66 Effigy pipe 67 Chipped drill 67 Two Effigy drills 68 Copena point 68 Coosa pcints 69 8 Illustrations Jack's Reef Corner Notched point 69 Scallorn point 69 Sequoyah point 70 Hernando point 70 Raccoon Side-notched point 70 Bone fish hooks 7 1 Flint hoe 72 Jack's Reef Pentagonal point 72 Madison point 72 Fort Ancient point 73 Nodena point 73 Scrapers 73 Discoidal 74 Ceremonial stone mace 74 Platform pipe 75 Mississippian stirrup jar 75 Mississippian pots 76 Folsom point 81 Lost Lake point 82 Illustrations 9
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