Outline is Representative of Size and Shape:
Name Details:
Identified By: Richard "Scotty" MacNeish
Named For:
Date Identified: 1964
Type Site:
Identified By: Richard "Scotty" MacNeish
Named For:
Date Identified: 1964
Type Site:
Point Validity:
Provisional type
MacNeish was a pioneering anthropologist who was most notable for his excavations and studies at Tamaulipas Mexico. He conducted extensive excavations throughout Texas and northwestern Canada. This type has been references in professional publications, but few samples were recovered. More samples and details are needed. This is a provisional type.
MacNeish was a pioneering anthropologist who was most notable for his excavations and studies at Tamaulipas Mexico. He conducted extensive excavations throughout Texas and northwestern Canada. This type has been references in professional publications, but few samples were recovered. More samples and details are needed. This is a provisional type.
Aishihik Expanding Stem
(Provisional type)Cluster:
Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:
This is a large triangular expanding stem point with an elliptical cross section. The blade is relatively narrow and excurvate with the widest portion of the blade being at the bottom third of the blade. The shoulders range from horizontal to having a slight upward angle. The stem is slightly expanding with a base that varies from straight to slightly concave. This point is made using broad irregular percussion flaking with pressure flaking used along the all edges forming a random flaking pattern.
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Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
This point was reported in the southwestern Yukon and into British Columbia and Alaska. The full distribution is not known.
This point was reported in the southwestern Yukon and into British Columbia and Alaska. The full distribution is not known.
Age / Periods:
Date: 1,250 - 800 B.P.
Cultural Period: Developmental
Glacial Period: Vandal Minimum to
Medieval Warm
Culture:
Phase:: Aishihik Complex
Date: 1,250 - 800 B.P.
Cultural Period: Developmental
Glacial Period: Vandal Minimum to
Medieval Warm
Culture:
Phase:: Aishihik Complex
Age Details:
MacNeish (1993) notes that these points are diagnostic of the Hueco and Mesilla phases in the Jornada region.
MacNeish (1993) notes that these points are diagnostic of the Hueco and Mesilla phases in the Jornada region.
Other points in this cluster / Related / Associated Points:
