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Name Details:
Named By: Kevin Dowdy and John Stowell
Named For:
Date Identified: 1998
Type Site:
Seminole
(Collector Type)
Cluster:
Commonly Utilized Material:
Date:
Cultural Period:
5,000 - 3,500 B.P.
Middle to Late Archaic
Middle Holocene to
Neoglacial
Glacial Period:
Culture:
Outline is Representative of Size and Shape:
Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:
This is
a medium to large triangular stemmed to expanding stem point with an
elliptical cross section. The blade is broad and excurvate.
The shoulders are slightly barbed. The stem varies from straight
to slightly expanding with a concave base. The basal corners are
slightly rounded. This point has a random flaking pattern.
Size Measurements: Data Needed (Savannah
River variant, may have same measurements)
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
This point is primarily found in northern Florida and into southern Georgia and southern Alabama.
Additional Comments:
Dowdy and Stowell report this is a regional variant of the Savannah River point. This variant has rounder basal corners and are slightly barbed.
Other points in this Cluster:
Point Validity: Collector Type
Dowdy is an avocational archaeologist and president of the Tristates Archaeological Society
and deals in artifacts from the Gulf states region. Stowell has contributed to personally published by Dowdy. This type was named in personally published artifact guide and has several collector type
references. No professional references to this type were located. This is considered a collector type.
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Age Details:
References: (See Reference Page, Entry Number):
23, 30, 57
Seminole Projectile Point, Seminole Arrowhead
