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Name Details:
Named By: Edward Bottom
Named For: Nansemond (now Suffolk) County, Virginia
Date Identified: 1965
Type Site:
Nansemond
(Provisional Type)
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Date:
Cultural Period:
10,000 - 9,000 B.P.
Early Archaic
Early Holocene
Glacial Period:
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Outline is Representative of Size and Shape:
Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:
This is a medium triangular expanding stem / bifurcated point with an elliptical cross section. The blade may vary from primarily slightly excurvate to straight. The
shoulders may range from slightly barbed to having a slight upward angle. The stem is expanding with a concave or bifurcated base. Hafting region grinding is present with a random flaking pattern.
Size Measurements: Data Needed.
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
This point is reported in Virginia and into North Carolina.
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Point Validity: Provisional Type
Bottom was an avocational archeologist who helped found the Archeology Society of Virginia's Nansemond Chapter. He was awarded the Avocational Archeologist Award in 2000.
This type was named in a the Archeological Societies journal, but has no professional references. This is considered a provisional type.
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References: (See Reference Page, Entry Number):
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Nansemond Projectile Point, Nansemond Arrowhead
