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Name Details:
Named By: Leslie Davis
Named For: Type Site
Date Identified: 1988
Type Site: Metzal Site (24Ma171), Madison County, Montana
Metzal
Cluster:
Commonly Utilized Material:
Date:
Cultural Period:
8,700- 7,500 B.P.
Transitional Paleo
Early Holocene
Hardinger Complex
Glacial Period:
Culture:
Outline is Representative of Size and Shape:
Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:
This is a medium lanceolate with an elliptical cross section. The
blade is excurvate with the tip curving in, becoming parallel to almost parallel, and curving back in towards the base. The widest part of the blade is the top on third to one half of the blade. The
base is deeply concave or deeply notched. The hafting region has light grinding, this point has parallel flaking pattern.
Size Measurements: Data Needed
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
This point is considered the Plains Mountain tradition and is associated with the foothills of the western plains of Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and into Canada.
Related / Associated Points:
Additional Comments:
Frison (1991) feels that this is a Plains / Mountain cultural adaptation coeval with the Scottsbluff type.
Other points in this Cluster:
Point Validity: Valid Type
Davis was a pioneering anthropologist and professor at the University of Montana. He
served as Curator of Anthropology and Ethnology at the Museum of the Rockies. He conducted extensive studies into the archaeology of Montana and the Plains. This type was named in a professional
publication and has many professional references. This is considered a valid type,
.
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References: (See Reference Page, Entry Number):
Metzal Projectile Point, Metzal Arrowhead
