Projectile Point Identification Guide

Lanceolate / Auriculate Shaped Projectile Points of the

Yukon Territory

 

    

 

 

Name Picture Shape Size Cultural Period Validity
Lanceolate / Auriculate          
Agate Basin Ovoid to Lanceolate Medium to Large Transitional Paleo to Early Archaic Valid Type
Annie Lake Lanceolate Medium Early Archaic Valid Type
Clovis Auriculate / Lanceolate Small to Large Paleo Valid Type
Clovis Unfluted Auriculate / Lanceolate Small to Large Paleo Valid Type
Denbigh Lanceolate to Ovoid Medium Artic Small Tool Tradition Valid Type
Dorset Lanceolate to Triangular Medium Dorset Tradition Valid Type
Mesa Lanceolate Medium to Large Transitional Paleo Valid Type
Pelly Contracting Stem Small Early Archaic Valid Type
Sluiceway Lanceolate Large Artic Tradition Valid Type
Yukon Fishtail Auriculate Lanceolate Medium Transitional Archaic Provisional Type
Ovoid          
Chindadn Triangle to Ovoid Small Paleo - Artic Tradition Valid Type
Naknek Lanceolate to Ovoid / Triangular Medium Artic Small Tool Tradition / Brooks River Gravel Phase Collector Type
Slightly Stemmed Pentagonal Stemmed to Pentagonal Small Late Archaic Provisional Type
St. Michael Ovoid Medium Thule Tradition Valid Type
Xil Ovoid to Contracting Stem Medium to Large Transitional Paleo to Early Archaic Valid Type
Xilju Ovoid to Contracting Stem Medium Early Archaic Valid Type
Yukon Bipoint Ovoid / Diamond Medium to Large Transitional Paleo to Early Archaic Provisional Type
Yukon Constricting Stem Contracting Stem to Ovoid Medium to Large Late to Transitional Archaic Provisional Type
Triangle          
Minto Triangle Medium Transitional Paleo Provisional Type
Moosehide Triangular Medium Middle Archaic Provisional Type
Sub-Triangular Triangle Small Paleo-Arctic Tradition Valid Type
Whitehorse
AKA: P3
Lanceolate to Triangular Medium Late Archaic Valid Type