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Name Details:
Named By: Wilson Crook and R.
King Harris
Named For: Type Site
Date Identified: 1954
Type Site: The Wheeler Site, Dallas County, Texas
Wheeler Leaf
AKA for Pandora or Refugio ?
Cluster:
Commonly Utilized Material:
Date:
Cultural Period:
3,500 - 2,000 B.P.
Late to Transitional Archaic
Neoglacial to Roman Warm
Glacial Period:
Culture:
Outline is Representative of Size and Shape:
Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:
This is a medium
lanceolate point with a flattened to elliptical cross section. The blade is excurvate. The overall appearance may vary
from excurvate to the tip and parallel sides to having excurvate sides, or having a triangular appearance. The base is
may range from straight to convex. This point has a random flaking pattern.
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
This point is primarily found from the lower Pecos region
into central Texas, northern Coahuila, northern Nuevo Leon, northern
Tamaulipas, and into the coastal regions. Heaviest concentrations
on the coastal regions of Texas and Mexico.
Additional Comments:
A similar points, the Pandora and Refugio, was described by
Suhm and Krieger, (1954). The Wheeler Leaf a diagnostic point of
the Carrollton Focus as is the Pandora and Refugio points. The two may represent
the same type. However, as noted by Suhm and Krieger (1954) the
Pandora point as well as Refugio points seems to be a combination of smaller narrower points (like the
Wheeler Leaf) which they refer to as projectile points, and larger wider
points they feel are knifes. It could be that the smaller points are
Wheeler Leaf points as described by Crook and Harris while the larger knives
are Pandora or Refugio as described by Suhm and Krieger.
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Other points in this Cluster:
Point Validity: Valid Type
Crook was an avocational archaeologist who conducted extensive studies into
the Trinity River valley and northern Texas. Harris was and
archaeologist and a distinguished researcher on the archaeology of Texas.
This point was named in their publication on the Wheeler site and has many
professional references. Even though the characteristics of this point
and the Pandora point overlap and need greater research in order to
determine if this is there are two types, or a continuum of a single type,
there are many professional identification of the Wheeler type, This
is considered a valid type.
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Age Details:
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References: (See Reference Page, Entry Number):
115
Wheeler Leaf Projectile Point, Wheeler Leaf Arrowhead
