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Name Details:
Named By: Gregory Perino
Named For: Type Site
Date Identified: 1986
Type Site: Sorter's Bluff Mound, Cedar County, Missouri
Sorter's Bluff
(Provisional Type)
Cluster:
Commonly Utilized Material:
Date:
Cultural Period:
1,000 - 900 B.P.
Late Woodland
Medieval Warm
Caddoan Culture
Glacial Period:
Culture:
Outline is Representative of Size and Shape:
Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:
This is a small triangular corner notch point with a thin elliptical cross section. The blade may vary from slightly excurvate to straight. Many examples have fine
serrations on the blade. Broad round diagonal notches enter the corner of the preform forming a shoulder that is barbed and an expanding stem.
Size Measurements: Data Needed
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
Full distribution is not known. Above distribution is based on the distribution of the Sorter's Bluff site, Copperhead Site, and and Anderson Shelter which are the confirmed sites
that have had these points. This type may extend to the same distribution as the similar Sallisaw or Scallorn points.
Related / Associated Points:
Additional Comments:
This type was originally typed as Scallorn type points by Wood and Brock in 1984 before being re-defined as Sorter's Bluff points by Perino in 1986.
These points are similar to the Sallisaw points in the characteristics of the stem and base. They differ from Sallisaw points in the articles being longer and the total width of the stems is narrower than seen
in Sallisaw point. The stem of the Sorter's Bluff points is commonly narrower than the width of the blade at the shoulders and have a shallower basal concavity (Hill and Gilliland, 2005).
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Point Validity: Provisional Type
Perino was a well-respected
self-taught archeologist who was the founder of the Illinois State Archeological Society. This point was named in a professional publication. William G. Hill
and J. Eric Gilliland (2005) provided additional description for this type based on examples from the Copperhead Site in Arkansas. No additional professional references were located. This is considered a
provisional type.
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Age Details:
Sorter's Bluff points recovered at the Anderson Shelter (3BE174) were found in levels 7B. No radio-carbon dating was conducted on this level, but levels directly above provided dates
of 850 A.D. and levels directly below was dated at 1,260 A.D. giving these an approximate age of 950 - 1.050 A.D. (Hill and Gilliland, 2005)
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References: (See Reference Page, Entry Number):
30, 123
Sorter's Bluff Projectile Point, Sorter's Bluff Arrowhead
