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Name Details:
Named By: Robert C. Euler
Named For: Associated Culture
Date Identified: 1958
Type Site
Yavapai
(Cultural Type)
Cluster:
Commonly Utilized Material:
Date:
Cultural Period:
900 - 200 B.P.
Developmental to Historic
Medieval Warm to Little
Ice Age
Yavapai Culture
Glacial Period:
Culture:
Outline is Representative of Common Size and Shape:
Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:
This is a small
triangular side notch point with a flattened to elliptical cross section. The blade is primarily straight. Parallel U-shaped notches enter the blade forming horizontal shoulders and an expanded stem. The base is deeply concaved forming a V or U shape. This point has a random flaking pattern.
Size Measurement: Total Length - 18 to 32 mm, Stem Length -
13 to 15 mm, Neck Width - 6 to 9
mm, Max Width (basal width) - 12 to 20 mm, Thickness - 3
to 5 mm
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
This point is primarily found in central Arizona in regions associated with the Yavapai culture
Additional Comments:
These points are commonly types as Desert series points, but are associated with the Yavapia culture. Buck Taylor points are similar points with multiple notches associated with the Yavapia culture.
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Point Validity: Cultural Type
Euler was a distinguished anthropologist who specialized in the archaeology of Arizona.
He serves as Anthropologist for the National Parks Service at Grand Canyon National Park. This type was identified in his dissertation on the Walapia Culture of Arizona. This name is primarily used
to identify points associated with the Yavapai culture. This is a cultural type.
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Yavapai Projectile Point, Yavapai Arrowhead
