Name Details:
Named By: Bettye Broyles
Named For:
Date Identified: 1966
Type Site: St. Albans site, Kanawha County, West Virginia
MacCorkle
AKA: Large Biface (Ohio) / Drake Indented Base (1967)
Cluster: Rice Lobed Cluster
Commonly Utilized Material:
Cherts and flints
Date:
Cultural Period:
8,850 - 8,750 B.P.
Early Archaic
Early Holocene
Glacial Period:
Culture:
Outline is Representative of Common Size and Shape:
Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:
This is a
medium (1.5 to 2.5 inches) triangular bifurcated point with an flattened cross section. The blade is primarily excurvate, but may be straight on some examples. The blade may be serrated. The shoulders may vary from horizontal to having an upward slope. The stem is
expanding with a bifurcated base. The deep notched base and the corner notch stem can create large lobed ears. The
base is commonly ground. This point has a random flaking pattern.
Size Measurements: Total Length
- 40 to 84 mm (average 45 to 55 mm / rarely up to 120 mm), Stem Length - 12 to 17 mm, Width - 22 to
47 mm (average 31 mm), Neck Width - 16 to 25 mm, Stem Width
at Base - 18 to 36 mm, Thickness - 3 to 10 mm.
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
These points have been found through out the Tennessee River valley and the Ohio River valley and into the mid Mississippi River valley. They have also
been found into southern New York down into Maryland.
Related / Associated Points:
Additional Comments:
At the St. Albans site these points appeared to
be the transitional point between the older Kirk series points and the newer
smaller St. Albans and Lecroy points (Broyles, 1972).
This point has been dated to the Early Archaic period, but Gardner (1989), suggests that the bifurcated points were the beginning of the Middle Archaic period.
Broyles (1971) feels that this point was a transitional point between the Kirk points and the St. Albans point. However, Anderson (1991), feels that this is a variant of the St. Albans point and not a separate
point.
MacCorkle points found at the Jergen Site in southwestern Indiana have been referred to as Jergen points.
Point Validity: Valid Type
Broyles is a distinguished
anthropologist who was a professor at many prestigious universities. She is most known for her excavations at St. Albans Site in West Virginia. This type was named in a professional publication and has many professional references. This is a valid type.
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Age Details:
References: (See Reference Page, Entry Number):
23, 30, 37, 162, 184, W2, W10, W11, W18
MacCorkle Projectile Point, MacCorkle Arrowhead
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