Name Details:
Named By: Dena F. Dincauze
Named For: John Stark, early settler of property with type site
Date Identified: 1976
Type Site: Neville Site, Manchester, New Hampshire
Stark
Cluster: Morrow Mountain Cluster
Commonly Utilized Material:
felsite and quartz
Date:
Cultural Period:
7,000 - 6,500 B.P.
Middle Archaic
Middle Holocene
Glacial Period:
Culture:
Outline is Representative of Size and Shape:
Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:
This is a small to medium
triangular contracting stem point with an elliptical cross section. The blade may vary from excurvate to straight. Re-sharpened examples may have an incurvate blade. Then shoulders are at an upward slope and may be rounded. The stem is
contracting with a straight to convex base. The hafting region commonly is ground. This point has s random flaking
pattern.
Size Measurements: Total Length - 30 to
70 mm, Stem Length - 9 to 14 mm, Width - 16 to 24 mm,
Stem Width at shoulders - 11 to 19 mm
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
This point is primarily found in the Merrimack River valley and into eastern New York.
Additional Comments:
Point Validity: Valid Type
Dincauze is a renowned
anthropologist who has specialized in prehistoric archeology of eastern and central New England and was a professor at the UMass Amherst. This point was named in her book
on the Atlantic Phase culture and has many professional references. This is considered a valid type.
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Age Details:
Pictures Provided By:
Mike Daviault
References: (See Reference Page, Entry Number):
23, 30, W11
Stark Projectile Point, Stark Arrowhead
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