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Name Details:
Named By: Robert E. Funk
Named For: Type Site
Date Identified: 1965
Type Site: Sylvan Lake Rockshelter, Duchess County, New York
Sylvan Lake
Cluster:
Commonly Utilized Material:
Date:
Cultural Period:
4,300 - 3,500 B.P.
Late Archaic
Neoglacial
Glacial Period:
Culture:
Outline is Representative of Size and Shape:
Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:
This is a thick small to medium triangular side notch to expanding stemmed point with an elliptical cross section. The blade is primarily slightly excurvate. The shoulders
may vary from prominent to weak and poorly defined. Shoulders range from horizontal to having an upward angle. The stem is expanding with a base that ranges from straight to convex. This point
has a random flaking pattern.
Size Measurements: Data Needed
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
This point is primarily found in the lower Hudson River valley.
Related / Associated Points:
Additional Comments:
This point can vary from a side notch point that is similar to the Brewerton Side Notch point to a narrow expanding stem resembling a Lamoka point. Most literature compare this point to the Lamoka point.
Justice (1987) notes this point is a morphological correlate to the Brewerton Side Notch cluster.
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Point Validity: Valid Type
Funk was a renowned anthropologist who conducted extensive studies and excavations in the New England area. He was appointed to New York State
Archaeologist and worked in the New York State Museum as a research associate. This point was named in a professional publication and has many professional references. This is a valid type.
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Age Details:
This type is part of the Narrow Point tradition.
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References: (See Reference Page, Entry Number):
30, 37, 48
Sylvan Lake Projectile Point, Sylvan Lake Arrowhead
