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Name Details:
Named By: Richard
S. MacNeish
Named For: Type
Site
Date Identified:
1964
Type Site: The Taye Lake site, Yukon
Taye
Provisional Type
Cluster:
Commonly Utilized Material:
Date:
Cultural Period:
5,000 - 3,500 B.P.
Middle to Late Archaic
Middle Holocene to Neoglacial
Late Gladstone and Taye Complex
Glacial Period:
Phase:
Outline is Representative of Size and Shape:
Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:
This is a thin medium to large triangular point with a thin plano convex
cross section. The blade is primarily excurvate with rounded
shoulders that are an upward angle. The stem ranges from parallel
to contracting with a
concave base. This point is made from a flake with percussion
flaking used only one face leaving the other face smooth. Fine
pressure flaking is used along all edges leaving flaking short flaking
scars on both faces. This point has a random flaking pattern.
Size Measurements: Length - 48 to 60 mm, Stem Length - 12 to 19 mm, Blade Width -
25 to 36 mm (average 24 mm), Basal Stem Width - 19 to 34 mm, Neck
Width - 18 to 28 mm, Notch Width - 7 to 13 mm, Thickness - 7 to 11 mm (average
10 mm)
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
This point was reported at the Taye Lake site and the Gladstone site in
Yukon. May be found throughout southwestern Yukon and into Alaska
and British Columbia.
Related / Associated Points:
Additional Comments:
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Other points in this Cluster:
Point Validity: Provisional Type
MacNeish was a pioneering
anthropologist who was most notable for his excavations and studies at Tamaulipas Mexico.
He conducted extensive excavations throughout Texas and northwestern Canada. This type has been references in professional publications, but few
samples were recovered. More samples and details are needed.
This is a provisional type.
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Age Details:
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References: (See Reference Page, Entry Number):
200
Taye Projectile Point, Taye Arrowhead
