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Name Details:
Named By: John Powell
Named For: Withlacoochee River, Florida
Date Identified: 1992
Type Site:
Withlacoochee
(Collector Type)
Cluster:
Commonly Utilized Material:
Date:
Cultural Period:
10,500 - 10.000 B.P.
Late Paleo
Early Holocene
Glacial Period:
Culture:
Outline is Representative of Common Size and Shape:
Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:
This is a thin medium auriculate point with a flattened to thin elliptical cross section. The blade is primarily excurvate and may slightly flare out towards the base. Fine pressure flaking on the blade may form fine serrations. The base is concave forming basal ears or auricle that point downward. Basal grinding and hafting region grinding are present on this point. This point has a random to oblique flaking pattern.
Size Measurements: Total Length -
50 to 91 mm (average 75mm), Blade Width - 24 to 28 mm (average 25
mm), Thickness - 6 to 8 mm (Powell, 1992).
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
This point is primarily found in northern Florida and into Southern Florida and southeastern Alabama.
Related / Associated Points:
Additional Comments:
This point is thought to be an intermediate type between Clovis and Dalton, Simpson and Suwannee types. This point is thinner than the Suwannee type and does not have a constricting waist like a
Simpson type (Granger and Granger, 2013).
Powell (1992) describes "this form represents, both physically and
temporally, an intermediate entity between the unfluted Clovis and members
of the southeastern Dalton complex".
Other points in this Cluster:
Point Validity: Collector Type
Powell has served a curator of an archaeological museum and as an instructor of
archaeology. He published a book on classification of blades and point in the Gulf Coastal region. This point was identified in his book. Professional references to this type are limited. There are many collector references to this type. This is considered a
collector type.
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Age Details:
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References: (See Reference Page, Entry Number):
23, 30, 59, 164
Withlacoochee Projectile Point, Withlacoochee Arrowhead
