Name Details:
Named By: Robert Stephenson, R.L.L.L Ferguson and G. H. Ferguson
Named For:
Date Identified: 1963
Type Site: Accokeek Creek Site, Maryland
Vernon
Cluster:
Commonly Utilized Material:
Primarily quartz and quartzite followed by rhyolite and
chert.
Date:
Cultural Period:
5,500 - 4,00 B.P.
Late Archaic
Middle Holocene to Neoglacial
Glacial Period:
Culture:
Outline is Representative of Common Size and Shape:
Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:
This is a
thick small to medium triangular expanding stem point with an elliptical cross section. The blade may vary from straight to excurvate. The shoulders are sloped upwards. The stem is expanding. It constricts from the shoulders to midway of the stem
and then expands towards the base. The base is primarily straight, but may vary from slightly convex to slightly concave. This point has a random flaking pattern.
Size Measurements: Total Length - 24 to 49 mm (average 37 mm),
Stem Length - 7 to 12 mm, Width - 16 to 30 mm (average 23 mm),
Stem Width - 11 to 20 mm, Neck Width - 10 to 15 mm,
Thickness - 6 to 13 mm
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
This point is primarily found in Maryland and into Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey.
Related / Associated Points:
Lamoka Additional Comments:
Many researchers feel that this point is similar, or the same as, the Halifax point. Others feel that this point is similar to, and often difficult to distinguish from, the Bare Island point (W10).
Ebright (1992), suggest that this point was used in the Late Archaic period and continued use into the early Woodland period.
Please see link below for more examples of this type.
Other points in this Cluster:
Point Validity: Valid Type
Stephenson is a distinguished
anthropologist who was a professor at the University of South Carolina and was an expert in southern archaeology. R. Ferguson and G. Ferguson conducted excavations at the Accokeek
Creek Site. This type was named in a professional publication and has many professional references. This is considered a valid type.
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Age Details:
Pictures Provided By:
Lee W.
Nichole Elkins
References: (See Reference Page, Entry Number):
12,
23, 30, W10
Vernon Projectile Point, Vernon Arrowhead
