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Name Details:
Named By: Berry C. Kent
Named For: Schuylkill River, Eastern Pennsylvania
Date Identified: 1970
Type Site:
Schuylkill
Cluster:
Commonly Utilized Material:
Date:
Cultural Period:
4,000 - 3,000 B.P.
Late Archaic
Neoglacial
Glacial Period:
Culture:
Outline is Representative of Size and Shape:
Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:
This is a narrow medium to
large triangular contracting stem point with an elliptical cross section. The blade is primarily excurvate, but may range to straight. The shoulders vary from horizontal to having an upward angle. The shoulders are commonly asymmetrical with one shoulder being more horizontal than the other
shoulder. The stem is contracting with a convex base. This point has a random flaking pattern.
Size Measurements: Length - 65 to 100 mm, Stem Length - 18 to 26 mm, Blade Width -
25 to 25 mm.
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
This point is primarily found in the Schuylkill River Valley of eastern Pennsylvania and into the Susquehanna River Valley of eastern Pennsylvania western New Jersey, and northeastern Maryland.
Related / Associated Points:
Additional Comments:
This point is similar to the Poplar Island point. The shoulders of this point are more pronounced and angular than the shoulders of the Poplar Island which has rounder shoulders.
Other points in this Cluster:
Point Validity: Valid Type
Jones is a professional anthropologist and serves as a professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at California Polytechnic State
University. Hylkema is a California State Parks Archeologist and serves as in instructor in anthropologist at Foothill Collage, Los Altos California. This type was named in a
professional publication and has many professional references. This is considered a valid type.
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Age Details:
Pictures Provided By:
Lee W.
References: (See Reference Page, Entry Number):
23, 30, 57
Schuykill Projectile Point, Schuykill Arrowhead
