Name Details:
Named By:  
Named For:  Associated Timpanogus Culture
Date Identified:
Type Site:
 Timpanogus Blade
AKA: Shouldered Knife / Drill
(Cultural Type)
Cluster:









Date:                   
Cultural Period:   
800 - 200 B.P.
Late Prehistoric to Historic
Medieval Warm to Little
Ice Age
Timpanogus Utes

Glacial Period:

Culture:
     
      


Outline is Representative of Common Size and Shape:



Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:

This is a medium to large lanceolate blade with an elliptical cross section.  The blade may vary from excurvate, straight, or recurvate curving in at the tip and flaring out at the shoulder.  The shoulders are weak to absent and at an upward angle.  The stem is contracting with a pointed to convex base.  The hafting region has basal grinding.  This point may have a random to parallel horizontal flaking pattern.   

Size Measurements:  Data Needed

Distribution:
Distribution Comments:

This point is primarily found in central Utah and into western Utah.

Similar Points:
Wahmuza Blade
Related / Associated Points: 
Desert series, Cottonwood Triangle
Additional Comments:

This as a "handled knife" used by the Timpanogogts, a Ute sub-culture who resided around Utah Lake and into the surrounding area.  This name was first used to describe these knifes found in Timpanogus Cave and surrounding sites in American Fork Canyon (Holzapfel, 1999).  In professional literature, this name has been used to describe those examples, but has not been used to these knifes outside of that site.  Examples excavated in mound sites around Utah Lake have referred to these as handled knifes, shouldered knifes, and shouldered drills.

Loyd Doty reports:

TIMPANOGOS BLADE (Stemmed & Lanceolate) – comes from the Aztecan word Timpanogostzis meaning ‘people of the rock’.  The Timpanogos Indians, alternately called Eutahs were a native people living in Utah. This point type was named for examples recovered from sites near Mount Timpanogos in the Wasatch Mountain Range and Timpanogos Cave.  It is yet another provisional point type from the far west.  They are medium to large sized (3” to 5”) knives that are often found in caches.  There are two forms, the stemmed form and the enlarged basal type that contracts to a straight, pointed or round base.  Blade edges can vary and the stem areas can be short or very long.  One variant has shallow side notches that create small tapered shoulders.  They are similar to or the same as Wahmuza.  Distribution is northwestern Utah and they were in use during the northern high plains Historic to Transitional phase.  References: Anderson, Adrienne B. 1975, Archeological Evaluation, Timpanogos Cave National Monument.   Anonymous 1979, Summary of Archeological Resources and Resources Management Needs for Timpanogos Cave National Monument.  Prepared By Rmr Inventory of Archeological Sites Program, Midwest Archeological Center.








Pictures:

Utah County, Utah
Utah County, Utah
Other points in this Cluster:
Point Validity:   Cultural Type

This name was used for examples found from American Fork Canyon that were associated with the Timpanogus Culture.  Professionally, this name has only been used to describe these examples, and not this type as whole.  This is considered a cultural type.




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References: (See Reference Page, Entry Number):

23, 92
Timponogus Projectile Point, Timponogus Arrowhead