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Name Details:
Named By: Floyd Painter and Loy Carter
Named For: Occaneechee Culture
Date Identified:
Type Site:
Occaneechee Large Triangle
(Cultural Type)
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Commonly Utilized Material:
Date:
Cultural Period:
600 - 400 B.P.
Mississippian to Historic
Little Ice Age
Occaneechee Culture
Glacial Period:
Culture:
Outline is Representative of Size and Shape:
Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:
This is a small to large triangular point with a flattened elliptical cross section. The blade may vary from slightly excurvate to straight. The base is concave with basal
corners that may range from sharp to rounded. This point has a random flaking pattern.
Size Measurements: Data Needed
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
This point is primarily found in piedmont along the border region of North Carolina and Virginia,
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Additional Comments:
This type was named for the Occaneechee Culture which used this knife, but these knifes were not found in Occaneechee Village site in Orange County North Carolina excavated by Coe. It
is generally felt that triangular points and knifes were used by many cultures at the end of the Woodland period and into the Historic period and that they are not diagnostic of any specific culture.
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Point Validity: Cultural Type
Painter is a respected archaeologist who spent decades documenting Paleo to post-contact cultures in Virginia Region
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References: (See Reference Page, Entry Number):
23, 30
Occaneechee Projectile Point, Occaneechee Arrowhead
