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Name Details:
Named By: Gary L. Fogelman
Named For: Susquehanna River Valley
Date Identified: 1988
Type Site:
Susquehanna Bifurcated
AKA: Susquehanna Valley
(Collector Type)
Cluster:
Commonly Utilized Material:
Date:
Cultural Period:
8,500 - 8,000 B.P.
Early Archaic
Early Holocene
Glacial Period:
Culture:
Outline is Representative of Size and Shape:
Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:
This is a
medium triangular bifurcated point with a flattened to elliptical cross section. The blade may vary from excurvate to straight. Re-sharpened examples may have a recurvate blade. The shoulders are primarily slightly barbed, but may range to horizontal. The stem is expanding with pronounced lobes. The basal ears are commonly squared. Basal grinding may be seen on
this point. This point has a random flaking pattern.
Size Measurements: Total Length - 28
to 65 mm (30 to 35 mm average), Stem Length - 8 to 15 mm,
Blade Width - 25 to 30 mm (average 30 mm), Stem Width - 18 to
28 mm, Neck Width - 16 to 24 mm (average 20 mm)
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
This point is primarily found in Susquehanna River Valley. This is a common point through-out the middle Potomac drainage and the Delaware River valley.
Similar Points:
Adams Valley, Kanawha, LeCroy, MacCorkle, Nottoway, Penns Creek, Rice Lobed, Southampton, Stanly, St, Albans Related / Associated Points:
Additional Comments:
This point was re-named to Susquehanna Valley to avoid confusion with the Susquehanna Broad Spear (stemmed) point (Hranicky, 2011). This point is not associated with the Late Archaic Susquehanna point or with
the Susquehanna Soapstone Culture.
This type is similar to the Adams County variant, but differs in this type has
"squarish" basal lobes while the Adam County variant has rounded basal lobes.
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Point Validity: Collector Type
Fogelman has written many
professional books including the Pennsylvania Fluted Point Survey. This point was named in his personally published book and has many collector type references. No professional references to this type
were located. This is considered a collector type.
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Age Details:
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References: (See Reference Page, Entry Number):
29, 30, 37, W10, W11
Susquehanna Bifurcated Projectile Point, Susquehanna Bifurcated Arrowhead
Susquehanna Valley Projectile Point, Susquehanna Valley Arrowhead
