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Name Details:
Named By: Kevin Dowdy and John Sowell
Named For: Ichuaway Notchaway Creek,
Date Identified: 1998
Type Site:
Notchaway
(Collector Type)
Cluster:
Commonly Utilized Material:
Date:
Cultural Period:
5,000 -2,000 B.P.
Late Archaic to Woodland
Middle Holocene to
Roman Warm
Glacial Period:
Culture:
Outline is Representative of Size and Shape:
Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:
This is a thick medium to large triangular stemmed point with an elliptical cross section. The blade is primarily excurvate. The shoulders are at an upward slope. The stem is short and broad and primarily straight, but may vary to slightly expanding or slightly contracting. The base is most notably slightly concave, but may vary to straight or slightly convex. This point has a random flaking pattern.
Size Measurements: Data needed
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
The full distribution of this point is unknown. It is primarily found in the Ichuaway-Notchaway Creek region of southwestern Georgia and the mid Flint River Valley.
Related / Associated Points:
Additional Comments:
Dates based on comments by Kevin Dowdy. No radiocarbon dates have been provided for this type. This point has morphological correlates with the Wacissa point which is an older point (Early to Middle
Archaic) which may make this point older than currently reported.
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Point Validity: Collector Type
Dowdy runs a website that deals in artifacts. Sowell is an artifact authenticator. Together they publish a identification and price guide. This point was named in a
professional publication and there are many collector type references to this type. There are no professional references to this type, this is considered a collector type.
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Age Details:
References: (See Reference Page, Entry Number):
23, 30, 57
Notchaway Projectile Point, Notchaway Arrowhead
