Guide to the Identification of Certain American Indian Projectile Points

Author(s): Robert E. Bell

Year: 1958

Summary

This guide to the identification of certain American Indian projectile points is designed to acquaint the reader with a series of projectile point types that have been identified and named by archaeologists. As a guide it is far from complete, and there are many additional types of projectile points that are not included; also, there are a number of distinctive forms which have not been typed. There are somewhere between 150 and 200 projectile point types that have been named in the United States; of these, only 50 are discussed here, for reasons that will be mentioned in the text.

This publication is entirely the result of interest expressed by members of the Oklahoma Anthropological Society and other persons interested in arrowheads. It is designed to bring together available information on projectile point types for amateur archaeologists, collectors, or anyone having an interest in the subject. This information, for the most part, is scattered throughout a variety of sources, often publications of limited distribution or those obscured by a more technical language, so that it is frequently available only to the professional archaeologist.

Cite this Record

Guide to the Identification of Certain American Indian Projectile Points. Robert E. Bell. Special Bulletin ,1. Norman, OK: Oklahoma Anthropological Society. 1958 ( tDAR id: 428030) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8428030

Keywords

Culture
Adena • Alto Focus • Antelope Creek Focus • Aransas Focus • Archaic • Arkansas Focus • Belcher Focus • Brownsville Focus • Carrollton Focus • Clovis • Custer Focus • Dalton • Early Woodland • East Texas Aspect • Edwards Plateau Aspect • EVA FOCUS • Falcon Focus • Folsom • FOURCHE MALINE FOCUS • Gahagan Focus • Galveston Bay Focus • Gibson Aspect • Grove Focus • Henrietta Focus • Late Archaic • Llano Complex • Mier Focus • Optima Phase • PaleoIndian • Pecos River Focus • Rockport Focus • Spiro Focus • Texarkana Focus • Trinity Aspect • Washita River Phase • Woodland • Wylie Focus Show More

Material
Chipped Stone

Investigation Types
Collections Research • Heritage Management

General
Abasolo Point • Adena Point • Afton Point • Alba Barbed • Alba Point • Bassett Point • Bassett Pointed Stem • Carrollton Point • Catan Point • Clovis Point • Dalton Point • Edgewood Point • Evans Point • Eva Point • Folsom Point • Gary Point • Harrell Point • Hayes Point • Kinney Point • Lange Point • Langtry Point • Lerma Point • Marcos Point • Marshall Point • Matamoros Point • Maud Point • McKean Point • Meserve Point • Milnesand Point • Montell Point • Morhiss Point • Morris Point • Motley Point • Nodena Point • Nolan Point • Osceola Point • Pandale Point • Pedernales Point • Plainview Point • Reed Point • Refugio Point • Sandia Point • San Patrice Point • Scottsbluff Point • Snyders Point • Talco Point • Tortugas Point • Travis Point • Trinity Point • Washita Point • Wells Point Show More

Geographic Keywords
Afton • Alaska (State / Territory) • Arizona (State / Territory) • Arkansas (State / Territory) • Caddoan • California (State / Territory) • Clovis • Colorado (State / Territory) • Durango • East Fork • Folsom • Kansas (State / Territory) • Kentucky (State / Territory) • Lake Texoma • Louisiana (State / Territory) • Mexico (Country) • Mississippi (State / Territory) • Missouri (State / Territory) • Montana (State / Territory) • Nebraska (State / Territory) • New Mexico (State / Territory) • Ohio (State / Territory) • Ohio Valley • Oklahoma (State / Territory) • Pecos River • Red River • Republic of Costa Rica (Country) • Rio Grand Drainage • Rio Grande Valley • Tamaulipas • Tennessee (State / Territory) • Texas (State / Territory) • Trinity River Show More

Spatial Coverage

min long: -167.695; min lat: 3.864 ; max long: -34.102; max lat: 70.729 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Cultural Resource Office, Joint Base San Antonio

Repository(s): Fort Sam Houston

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