Name Details:
Named By:
Named For:
Date Identified:
Type Site:
Pinwah
(Collector Type)
Cluster:
Commonly Utilized Material:
Date:
1,300 - 900 B.P.
Late Prehistoric
Vandal Minimum to Medieval Warm
Cultural Period:
Glacial Period:
Culture:
Outline is Representative of Size and Shape:
Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:
This is
a thin small to medium triangular contracting stem point with a flattened cross section. The blade may vary from slightly excurvate to slightly recurvate curving in at the tip and flaring out at the
shoulders edge. Some examples have had a straight blade. The blade broadest at the shoulders edge. The shoulder horizontal with a stem that is contracting and a convex base. This point is commonly well made and has a random flaking pattern.
Size Measurements: Data Needed
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
This point is primarily found from the San
Jacinto River Valley in Texas and into Beauregard Parish and
northwestern Allen County Louisiana. This type has been reported
into Oklahoma with decreased frequency.
Similar Points:
Alba, Bulbar, Bonham, Catahoula, Colbert, Cuney, Friley, Hayes, Hughes, Keota, Penwah Slough, Perdiz, Scallorn, Sequoyah Related / Associated Points:
Additional Comments:
Other Websites with Detailed Information:
The origins of this name are unknown. Mark
Adams named the Penwah Slough and feels that this may have been a misspelling of that type. Pictures Provided By:
Walter Williams
Tomas Oakes
Anthony Oliver
Sabine Relics
References: (See Reference Page, Entry Number):
Other points in this Cluster:
Point Validity: Collector Type
There are many collector sources that reference this type. There is
confusion if this is the same type as the Penwah Slough type. This is considered a collector type.
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Age Details:
Pinwah Projectile Point, Pinwah Arrowhead
