The Curious Case of Stemmed Jude Points in the Upper Tombigbee River Valley, Mississippi

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Late Pleistocene Stemmed Points across North America: Continental Questions and Regional Concerns" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In the American Southeast, there are only a limited number of securely dated sites from the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene, and type descriptions are often cobbled together across subregional projectile point guides. Many of these projectile point types are poorly defined and lack any kind of chronological underpinning. One such type, the stemmed Jude, has a limited distribution in northeastern Mississippi but has recently been recovered from a dated, Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene context at the Hester site in Amory, Mississippi. Here, we argue that this type may be among the earliest stemmed varieties in the American Southeast.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Late Pleistocene Stemmed Points across North America: Continental Questions and Regional Concerns   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 36537.0