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Name Details:
Named By: Collector's
Named For: Sauvies Island, Oregon
Date Identified:
Type Site:
Sauvies Island Hafting Notched
(Collector Type)
Cluster:
Commonly Utilized Material:
Date:
Cultural Period:
1,750 - 400 B.P.
Transitional Archaic to Classic
Roman Warm to
Medieval
Warm
Glacial Period:
Culture:
Outline is Representative of Size and Shape:
Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:
This is a small to medium
triangular stemmed point with a flattened to elliptical cross section. The blade varies from slightly excurvate to straight. There is a single notch on one or both blades. Parallel notches enter the blade just above the shoulders. Examples that have the notch enter at the corner
of the shoulder would be the Shoulder Notch type. The shoulders are most commonly slightly barbed, but may range to horizontal. The stem varies form slightly contracting to slightly expanding. This point has a random flaking pattern.
Size Measurements: Total Length - 16 to 51 mm,
Stem Length - 3 to 6 mm, Blade Width - 10 to21 mm, Stem Width - 3
to 5 mm
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
This point is primarily associated with the coastal regions of the Portland Basin and down the Oregon Coastal region to the Umpqua River in Douglas County, Oregon. This
point is also found in the lower Columbia River Valley.
Related / Associated Points:
Additional Comments:
This point is similar to the larger older Contra Costa point found in California.
This type has been found at many professionally excavated sites including the Umpqua-Eden (35DO83), Douglas County, Oregon and The Duck Lake site (45CL6),
Oregon,
but has not been discussed as a specific type.
Other points in this Cluster:
Point Validity: Collector Type
This type was listed in Overstreet's Price Guide and has many collector type references.
Even though this type has been pictures in many professional excavation reports, this type has not been discussed as a specific type and this name is currently only used by collector's. This is considered a
collector type.
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Age Details:
References: (See Reference Page, Entry Number):
5, 23
Sauvie's Island Hafting Notch Projectile Point, Sauvie's Island Hafting Notch Arrowhead
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