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Name Details:
Named By: Gary L. Fogelman
Named For: Penn's Creek, Snyder County, Pennsylvania
Date Identified: 1988
Type Site:
Penn's Creek Bifurcated
Cluster:
Commonly Utilized Material:
Date:
Cultural Period:
9,000 - 8,000 B.P.
Early Archaic
Middle Holocene
Glacial Period:
Culture:
Outline is Representative of Size and Shape:
Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:
This is a small to medium
triangular corner notch / bifurcated point with an elliptical cross section. The blade varies from slightly excurvate to straight. The
shoulders are horizontal to slightly barbed. The stem is expanding with rounded basal corners. The base is concave forming
a bifurcated point. The rounded basal edges and concave base gives the point basal lobes that angle at a fourth-five degree angle. This point has a random flaking pattern.
Size Measurements: Data
Needed
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
This point is primarily found in central Pennsylvania and into lower New York.
Related / Associated Points:
Additional Comments:
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Other points in this Cluster:
Point Validity: Valid Type
Fogelman has written many
professional books including the Pennsylvania Fluted Point Survey. He has written many books on archaeology. This type was named in a personally published book and has
several professional references. This is considered a valid type.
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Age Details:
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References: (See Reference Page, Entry Number):
23, 30, 57
Penn's Creek Bifurcated Projectile Point, Penn's Creek Bifurcated Arrowhead
