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Name Details:
Named By: Roy Carlson
Named For: Point Characteristics
Date Identified:  2008
Type Site:
 Slightly Stemmed Pentagonal
(Provisional Type)
Cluster:








Commonly Utilized Material:
 

Date:                   
Cultural Period:   
4,500 - 2,000 B.P.
Late Archaic
Neoglacial

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Culture:

     
      


Outline is Representative of Common Size and Shape:



Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:

This is a small to medium pentagonal stemmed point with a flattened cross section.  The blade is excurvate with the widest part of the blade being the mid-point of the point.  The blade curves back in towards the shoulders.  The shoulders are weak to absent and at an upward angel.  The stem is short and slightly contracting.  The base varies from straight to slightly concave.  This point has a random flaking pattern.
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:

This point was reported in the southwestern Yukon and into British Columbia and Alaska.  The full distribution is not known.

Similar Points:
Chindadn
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Point Validity:   Provisional Type

Carlson is a distinguished anthropologist and professor for the Department of Anthropology, University of Washington. Carlson has conducted extensive studies into the archaeology of Canada.  This point was identified in a professional publication. Currently only two examples have been recovered from the southwestern Yukon ice patches.  More research is needed on this type. This is considered a provisional type.




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48, 144, 201
Slightly Stemmed Pentagonal Projectile Point, Slightly Stemmed Pentagonal Arrowhead