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Name Details:
Named By: David
Sanger
Named For: Associated Culture
/ Type Site
Date Identified: 1970
Type Site The Lochnore
Creek Site (EdRk 7), British Columbia, Canada
Lochnore
Notched
Cluster:
Commonly Utilized Material:
Date:
Cultural Period:
5,000 - 3,500 B.P.
Middle Archaic
Middle Holocene
Nesikep Culture
Glacial Period:
Culture:
Outline is Representative of Size and Shape:
Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:
This is a
narrow thick medium ovoid
side notch point with an elliptical cross section. The blade
is excurvate with the tip curving in, becoming the widest about the
mid point of the blade, and curving back in towards the shoulders.
Wide notched form a shoulder that is at an upward angle and an
expanding stem. The stem is long with a base that ranges from
convex to pointed giving many examples a "turkeytail" appearance.
This point has a random flaking pattern.
Size Measurements: Total Length - 36
to 74 mm, Stem Length - 16 to 23 mm, Blade Width - 19 to
31 mm, Neck Width - 14 to 19 mm, Stem Width - 15 to 21
mm
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
This point is primarily found in the mid
Frazier River Valley of British Columbia and may be found into the mid
to lower Chilcotin Plateau in areas associated with fishing.
Additional Comments:
The Lochnore culture represented a Salishan group
which was primarily focused on fishing. (Sturtevant and Ortiz,
1983).
Prentiss and Kuijt (2004), differentiate points from the Lehman culture and
the Lochnore culture. They admit that these two point may represent a
continuum of the point technology, but note that the Lehman point is thicker
with a broader blade than commonly seen on the Lochnore point. Also,
the base is generally smaller and more convex than the Lochnore point.
The point progression in the mid to lower Frazier River Valley is: Cody
points, Nesikep, Lehman, Lochnore, Shuswap, Plateau Horizon, Kamloops.
Other points in this Cluster:
Point Validity: Valid Type
Sanger is a distinguished anthropologist and professor for the Department of
Anthropology, Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine. His
primary interest in in pre-European contact in Maine, but studied the
prehistoric cultures in Canada while at the University of Washington.
This type was identified while studding the Nesikep culture and has many
professional references. This is a valid type.
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Age Details:
Pictures Provided By:
Re-illustrated from examples by Rousseau, 2008
References: (See Reference Page, Entry Number):
48, 144
Lochnore Projectile Point, Lochnore Arrowhead
