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Name Details:
Named By:  Clarence Bloomfield Moore
Named For: 
Date Identified:  1912
Type Site:  Haley site, Texas
 Hayes Var. Turner
 AKA: Crickett
(Collector Type)
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Commonly Utilized Material:


Date:                   
Cultural Period:   
1,200 - 600 B.P.
Mississippian - Late Prehistoric
Vandal Minimum to Medieval
Warm
Caddoan Culture

Glacial Period:

Culture:
     
      


Outline is Representative of Common Size and Shape:



Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:

This is a narrow small to medium triangular expanding stem point with a flattened cross section.  The blade is primarily excurvate, but may vary to recurvate flaring out at the shoulders edge.  Many examples have fine serrations along the blade.  The shoulders may range from horizontal to having a downward angle.  The stem is expanding with a base that comes to a point which gives the stem a diamond appearance.  This point commonly has a high quality of workmanship and a random flaking pattern.

Size Measurements:  Total Length - 40 to 50 mm,  Stem Length - 8 to 10 mm,  Blade Width - 15 to 20 mm,  Neck Width - 5 to 7,  Stem Width - 7 to 9 mm (***based on small sample size***)
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:

This point is primarily found in the Spiro region of Oklahoma and into Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana.

Similar Points:
Alba, Blevins, Hayes, Homan, Howard, Perdiz, Sequoyah,
Related / Associated Points: 
Alba, Hayes
Additional Comments:

Collector sources feel that this is a later variant of the Hayes type.  Size measurements are identical to Hayes, only difference is the offset tip.  At the Craig Mound, Spiro Oklahoma, Brown (1966), types later Hayes types as Hayes Short type points which followed the Alba and Hayes points.

Moore (2015) note that these points have also been referred to as Crickett points.




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Point Validity:   Collector Type

Moore was an avocational archaeologist who conducted excursion into Egypt, the Amazon, Florida and Louisiana.  He excavated several sites in Florida and published books on sites in Louisiana.  This type was named in his book published in 1912, but this type is not currently used in professional literature.  This type is used by many collector type sources.  This is considered a collector type.




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References: (See Reference Page, Entry Number):

23, 30, 130, 182
Turner Projectile Point, Turner Arrowhead