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Name Details:
Named By: Richard "Scotty" MacNeish
Named For: Type Site
Date Identified: 1962
Type Site: Nogales Cave (Tm-c-82), Tamaulipas, Mexico
 Nogales
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Commonly Utilized Material:


Date:                   
Cultural Period:   
4,500 - 1,300 B.P.
Middle to Transitional Archaic
Neoglacial to Roman Warm

Glacial Period:
Culture:

     
      


Outline is Representative of Size and Shape:



Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:

This is a medium to large isosceles triangular point with an elliptical cross section.  The blade is excurvate with the widest portion of the blade being near the base.  The base is slightly convex with primarily rounded basal corners, but can occasionally form right angles.  Bases are commonly thinned with 1 to 5 percussion flakes.  This point is made with course percussion flaking and finished with a course pressure flaking.  Rarely this point will have fine pressure flaking on the edges and base.

Size Measurements:  Length - 35 to 88 mm (average 50 mm),  Blade Width - 16 to 51 mm (average 27 to 33 mm),  Thickness - 6 to 15 mm (average 9 to 11 mm)

Distribution:
Distribution Comments:

This point have been reported in Pinejo Cave in southern Arizona, throughout the Valley of Mexico and throughout the Tehuacan Valley of Mexico.  Reported in Cueva de la Nopalera, Hidalgo, Mexico.

Similar Points:
Archaic Knife, Triangular Knife
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Other points in this Cluster:
Point Validity:   Valid Type

MacNeish was a pioneering anthropologist who was most notable for his excavations and studies at Tamaulipas Mexico.  This type was identified during excavations of Nogales Cave and has many professional references.  This is considered a valid type.




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Age Details: 
MacNeish (1993), notes that the these occur earliest in the Fresnal phase and progress into the El Paso phase.  He notes that these were probably used as as both knives and possibly projectiles which would account for the long span of time in which they were used.
Pictures Provided By:
George Verworren
Dirk Diggler
Wildrido Ocejo
As illustrated by MacNeish, 1993



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References: (See Reference Page, Entry Number):

167, 189, 190
Nogales Projectile Point, Nogales Arrowhead