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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.
Similar Points:
Lagoon, Piscataway, Poplar Island, Rossville, Schuylkill
Related / Associated Points:
Neville, Merrimack
Additional Comments:


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Other points in this Cluster:
Morrow Mountain
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
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References: (See Reference Page, Entry Number):

23, 30, W11
Stark Projectile Point, Stark Arrowhead