Outline is Representative of Size and Shape:
Name Details:
Identified By: Joffre L. Coe
Named For: Type Site
Date Identified: 1964
Type Site: Hardaway Site, Stanly County, North Carolina
Identified By: Joffre L. Coe
Named For: Type Site
Date Identified: 1964
Type Site: Hardaway Site, Stanly County, North Carolina
Point Validity:
Valid type
Coe was a highly respected and pioneering anthropologist in North Carolina archaeology and a preeminent authority on eastern North American anthropology. This type was named in a professional publication and has many professional references. This is considered a valid type.
Hardaway Blade
Cluster: Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:
This is a thin small to medium lanceolate point with a flattened cross section. The blade is excurvate, but may slightly expand towards the base. The base is concave and commonly has basal grinding and thinning. This point has a random flaking pattern.
Size Measurements:
Total Length - 25 to 50 mm (35 mm average), Width - 22 to 35 mm (25 mm average), Thickness - 3 to 6 mm (Coe, 1959)
Total Length - 25 to 50 mm (35 mm average), Width - 22 to 35 mm (25 mm average), Thickness - 3 to 6 mm (Coe, 1959)
Commonly Utilized Material:
The primary type of material is based on location, but commonly used materials include quartz, quartzite, cherts, flints, felsite, and jasper.
The primary type of material is based on location, but commonly used materials include quartz, quartzite, cherts, flints, felsite, and jasper.
Additional Comments:
Justice (1987), labels this point the same as the Quad point. However, the distribution is not the same so this point was listed separately here. Some have argued that this may represent a preform for the Hardaway type, but Oliver (1999), feels that this is the first manifestation of the Hardaway type. He feel that this type evolved into the Hardaway Dalton type, followed by the Hardaway Side Notch, and then into the Palmer type.
Justice (1987), labels this point the same as the Quad point. However, the distribution is not the same so this point was listed separately here. Some have argued that this may represent a preform for the Hardaway type, but Oliver (1999), feels that this is the first manifestation of the Hardaway type. He feel that this type evolved into the Hardaway Dalton type, followed by the Hardaway Side Notch, and then into the Palmer type.
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
This point is primarily found southern Virginia and into Mississippi. This point is found with less frequency from northern Virginia and north and western Mississippi and west.
This point is primarily found southern Virginia and into Mississippi. This point is found with less frequency from northern Virginia and north and western Mississippi and west.
Age / Periods:
Date: 10,500 - 9,000 B.P.
Cultural Period: Transitional Paleo
Glacial Period: Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene
Culture:
Date: 10,500 - 9,000 B.P.
Cultural Period: Transitional Paleo
Glacial Period: Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene
Culture:
Age Details:
Other points in this cluster / Related / Associated Points:
Hardaway Dalton, Hardaway Palmer, Hardaway Side Notch
Hardaway Dalton, Hardaway Palmer, Hardaway Side Notch
