Outline is Representative of Size and Shape:
Name Details:
Identified By: Joffre L. Coe
Named For: Type Site
Date Identified: 1964
Type Site: Hardaway Site, Stanly County, North Carolina
Identified By: Joffre L. Coe
Named For: Type Site
Date Identified: 1964
Type Site: Hardaway Site, Stanly County, North Carolina
Point Validity:
Valid type
Coe was a highly respected and pioneering anthropologist in North Carolina archaeology and a preeminent authority on eastern North American anthropology. This type was named in a professional publication and has many professional references. This is considered a valid type.
Hardaway Side Notch
Cluster: Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:
This is a thin small to medium (1 to 2 inches) side notch point with a flattened to elliptical cross section. The blade is broad and may vary from straight to excurvate. Parallel notches are generally deep and narrow forming a U appearance. The base is most commonly deeply concave, but may vary to concave or recurvate. The base commonly has basal grinding and basal thinning with broad shallow flakes extending from the base into the face. Thinning flakes may extend 1/3 the face. This point may have a bifurcated appearance. This point has a random flaking pattern.
Size Measurements:
Total Length - 25 to 85 mm (35 mm average), Stem Length - 8 to 15 mm (average 10 mm), Width - 22 to 45 mm (25 mm average), Stem Width - 15 to 45 mm (average 20 to 30 mm), Neck Width - 15 to 35 mm (average 20 to 25 mm), Notch Depth - 4 mm average, Notch Width - 5 mm average, Thickness - 3 to 10 mm, Basal Concavity - 3 to 10 mm (Coe, 1959)
Total Length - 25 to 85 mm (35 mm average), Stem Length - 8 to 15 mm (average 10 mm), Width - 22 to 45 mm (25 mm average), Stem Width - 15 to 45 mm (average 20 to 30 mm), Neck Width - 15 to 35 mm (average 20 to 25 mm), Notch Depth - 4 mm average, Notch Width - 5 mm average, Thickness - 3 to 10 mm, Basal Concavity - 3 to 10 mm (Coe, 1959)
Commonly Utilized Material:
The primary type of material is based on location, but commonly used materials include quartz, quartzite, cherts, flints, felsite, and jasper.
The primary type of material is based on location, but commonly used materials include quartz, quartzite, cherts, flints, felsite, and jasper.
Additional Comments:
Both the Hardaway Dalton and the Hardaway Side Notch appear to be utilized during the same period and have been found the same levels at sites (W10). However, Justice (1987), places this point as an intermediate between the Dalton variant and the later Palmer variant.
See link below for additional examples
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/flarch/bullen/hardaway_side_notched.htm
Both the Hardaway Dalton and the Hardaway Side Notch appear to be utilized during the same period and have been found the same levels at sites (W10). However, Justice (1987), places this point as an intermediate between the Dalton variant and the later Palmer variant.
See link below for additional examples
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/flarch/bullen/hardaway_side_notched.htm
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
This point is primarily found southern Virginia and into Mississippi. This point is found with less frequency from northern Virginia and north and western Mississippi and west.
This point is primarily found southern Virginia and into Mississippi. This point is found with less frequency from northern Virginia and north and western Mississippi and west.
Age / Periods:
Date: 10,500 - 9,000 B.P.
Cultural Period: Transitional Paleo
Glacial Period: Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene
Culture:
Date: 10,500 - 9,000 B.P.
Cultural Period: Transitional Paleo
Glacial Period: Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene
Culture:
Age Details:
Similar Points:
Alamance, Chipola, Dalton, Palmer, Patrick Henry, Russell Cave, San Patrice, Union Side Notch
Alamance, Chipola, Dalton, Palmer, Patrick Henry, Russell Cave, San Patrice, Union Side Notch
Other points in this cluster / Related / Associated Points:
Hardaway Blade, Hardaway Dalton, Hardaway Palmer
Hardaway Blade, Hardaway Dalton, Hardaway Palmer
