Name Details:
Named By: David DeJarnette, Edward Karjack, and James Cambron
Named For: Association with the Morrow Mountain point
Date Identified: 1960
Type Site:
Morrow Mountain Straight Base
Cluster: Morrow Mountain Cluster
Date:
Cultural Period:
7,100 - 6,000 B.P.
Middle Archaic
Middle Holocene
Glacial Period:
Culture:
Outline is Representative of Size and Shape:
Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:
This is a
medium triangular contracting stem point with an elliptical cross section. The blade is primarily excurvate and may be serrated. The shoulders may vary from being angled upwards to horizontal. The stem is contracting with a straight base. Basal thinning or grinding may be present with this point. This point has a random flaking pattern.
Size Measurements: Total Length - 25 to 90 mm (28 mm average), Stem
Length - 7
to 15 mm (9 mm average), Blade Width - 25 to 45
mm (28 mm average), Stem Width - 16 to 19
mm (17 mm average), Thickness - 7 to 9 mm
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
These points are found along the Atlantic Seaboard northeast into New England, west into the Tennessee River basin, and into the Gulf coast states. This
point may be found in the Ohio River valley infrequently.
*** It has been argued that these points do
not extend into Florida. It is felt points there are a separate
culture and fall under Westo and other various type points.***
Additional Comments:
Morrow Mountain points post-date Stanly and Eva points and pre-date Savannah River and Guilford point (Justice, 1987).
This may represent a variant of the Morrow Mountain Type 2 with a less pronounced stem and base.
Point Validity: Valid Type
Dejarnette what the first anthropologist hired by the University of Alabama and was an expert on southeastern archaeology. Kurjack studied Alabama archaeology as a graduate student at
the University of Alabama and went on to become an expert on Mayan anthropology.
Cambron is a distinguished avocational archaeologist that did extensive work in Alabama and the Tennessee River valley. This point was named in a personally published book. This point has been referred to in
numerous professional publications and is considered a valid type
.
Age Details:
References: (See Reference Page, Entry Number):
12, 23, 30, 37, W2, W10
Morrow Mountain Straight Base Projectile Point, Morrow Mountain Straight Base Arrowhead
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