ALAPAHA (Contracted Stem) – some ethnologists believe that Alapaha was the Creek word for ‘other side’; others believe it was the word Timucuan Indians used for ‘bear’.   At least one ethnolinguist believes that Alapaha is a Creek adaptation of the Timucuan word Arapaha which meant ‘bear lodge’.  Yet another theory is that it was the Seminoles who changed the pronunciation from Arapaha to Alapaha, since their language did not contain an R sound.   

This point type was named for examples recovered from the type site on the Alapaha River, Berrian County, Georgia.  The name of this large sized knife (4” to 6”) is an old assignment that may have been replaced by another name sometime in the past.  The basal edges are more angular and basal nipple straighter than the Bascom and also less bulbous than a Morrow Mountain.  Distribution includes lower Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, northern Florida and they were in use during the Archaic period.