Outline is Representative of Size and Shape:
Name Details:
Identified By: Martha Rollingson and Michael F. Rodeffer
Named For: Cogswell Phase
Date Identified: 1968
Type Site: Cold Oak Rockshelter, Bath County, Kentucky
Identified By: Martha Rollingson and Michael F. Rodeffer
Named For: Cogswell Phase
Date Identified: 1968
Type Site: Cold Oak Rockshelter, Bath County, Kentucky
Point Validity:
Valid type
Rollingson is a professional anthropologist who is a professor and who has served as the Acting Director of the Museum of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky. Rodeffer is an archaeologist with a private archaeological research firm. This type was named in a professional publication and has many professional references. This is considered a valid type.
Rollingson is a professional anthropologist who is a professor and who has served as the Acting Director of the Museum of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky. Rodeffer is an archaeologist with a private archaeological research firm. This type was named in a professional publication and has many professional references. This is considered a valid type.
Cogswell Contracting Stem
Cluster: Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:
This is a medium triangular contracting stem point with an elliptical cross section. The blade may vary from excurvate to straight. The shoulders are commonly weak and at an upward angle or rounded. The stem is contracting with a convex base. This point has a random flaking pattern.
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Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
This point is primarily associated with the mountainous region of the Ohio River Valley most commonly southwestern Ohio, Southeastern Indiana and northern Kentucky.
This point is primarily associated with the mountainous region of the Ohio River Valley most commonly southwestern Ohio, Southeastern Indiana and northern Kentucky.
Age / Periods:
Date: 3,500 - 2,800 B.P.
Cultural Period:Late Archaic to Early Woodland
Glacial Period: Neoglacial
Culture:
Date: 3,500 - 2,800 B.P.
Cultural Period:Late Archaic to Early Woodland
Glacial Period: Neoglacial
Culture:
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Other points in this cluster / Related / Associated Points:
Wade
Wade
