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Name Details:
Named By: Maurice Robbins
Named For:
Date Identified: 1968
Type Site: Wapanucket Site (19-PL-203), Assawompsett Pond, Middlesboro, Massachusetts
Wapanucket
(Collector's Type)
Cluster:
Commonly Utilized Material:
Date:
Cultural Period:
6,000 - 4,000 B.P.
Middle Archaic
Middle Holocene
Glacial Period:
Culture:
Outline is Representative of Common Size and Shape:
Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:
This is a medium to very large triangular to lanceolate expanding stem
projectile point with a thin elliptical cross section. The blade is excurvate with many examples having the blade becoming parallel and curving back in towards the shoulders. The shoulders are
weak and at an upward angle. The stem is short with shallow notches and is slightly expanding. The base ranges from straight to slightly concave. This point has a random flaking pattern.
Size Measurements: Data Needed
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
This point is primarily found in Massachusetts and into Rhode Island
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Additional Comments:
Pictures:
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Point Validity: Collector Type
Robbins is a renowned avocational archaeologist who was the founder of the Massachusetts
Archaeological Society and served as Director for the Bronson Museum. He is most known for his excavations at the Wapanucket site. This type was named in his publication on the Wapanucket site, but has no
professional references. There are many collector type references to this type. This is considered a collector type.
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Age Details:
Pictures Provided By:
As Illustrated by Robbins, 1980
References: (See Reference Page, Entry Number):
23, 30
Wapanucket Projectile Point, Wapanucket Arrowhead
