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Name Details:
Named By: Bennie Keel
Named For: Pigeon river in
Western North Carolina
Date Identified: 1987
Type Site:
Pigeon Side Notch
Cluster:
Commonly Utilized Material:
Quartzite
Date:
Cultural Period:
2,200 - 1,800 B.P.
Middle Woodland
Neoglacial to Medieval Warm
Glacial Period:
Culture:
Outline is Representative of Size and Shape:
Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:
This is a thick medium triangular stemmed point with an elliptical cross section. The
blade may vary from slightly excurvate to straight. parallel notches are shallow forming a shoulder that are weak to absent ant at an upward angle and a expanding stem. The base is primarily straight, but
may vary from slightly concave to slightly convex and always thinned by
pressure flaking. This point has a random flaking pattern.
Manufactured with direct percussion flaking and finished with fine
pressure flaking around the edges. Small patches of cortex may
remain.
Size Measurements: Length - 28 to 39mm
(average 33 mm), Width - 13 to
23 mm (average 18 mm), Neck Width - 12 to 21 mm (average 16 mm),
Basal Width - 13 to 23 mm (average 18 mm), Notches - 1 mm deep 1
to 2.5 mm wide, Thickness - 6 to 8mm (Keel, 1987)
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
This point is primarily found in western North Carolina and into western Virginia.
Additional Comments:
Other points in this Cluster:
Point Validity: Valid Type
.
Age Details:
This type is associated with the Appalachian Summit, Pigeon Creek Phase.
Pictures Provided By:
Mandy Lanier
References: (See Reference Page, Entry Number):
30, W20
Pigeon Projectile Point, Pigeon Arrowhead
