Name Details:
Named By: James W. Cambron
Named For: Sublet Ferry on the Tennessee River, Jackson County, Alabama
Date Identified: 1976
Type Site:
Sublet Ferry
Cluster:
Commonly Utilized Material:
Date:
Cultural Period:
2,500 - 1,500 B.P.
Woodland
Neoglacial to
Medieval Warm
Glacial Period:
Culture:
Outline is Representative of Size and Shape:
Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:
This is a small to medium
side notch point with an elliptical cross section. Then blade is primarily excurvate. Many examples have serrations on the blade. Shallow parallel side notches low on the blade form horizontal shoulders and an expanded stem. The stem is small with a straight to slightly concave base. Basal grinding and thinning is common on this point. This point has a random flaking pattern.
Size Measurements: Total Length - 28 to 48 mm (42 mm average), Stem
Length - 7
to 10 mm (8 mm average), Blade Width - 16 to 22
mm (19 mm average), Stem Width - 16 to 22
mm (19 mm average), Thickness - 5 to 8 mm
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
This point is primarily found in the Tennessee River Valley and into the Cumberland River Valley of Tennessee and Kentucky.
Additional Comments:
This point is thought to be the intermediate point between the Damron point and the Knights Island point (Cambron, 1969).
Other points in this Cluster:
Point Validity: Valid Type
Cambron is a distinguished
avocational archaeologist that did extensive work in Alabama and the Tennessee River valley. This point was named in a personally published book. This point has been
referred to in numerous professional publications and is considered a valid type.
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Age Details:
References: (See Reference Page, Entry Number):
12,
23, 30, W11
Sublet Ferry Projectile Point, Sublet Ferry Arrowhead
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