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Name Details:
Named By: James W. Cambron
Named For: Type Site location
Date Identified: 1955
Type Site: Stone Pipe Site, Wheeler Valley, Limestone County, Alabama
Wheeler Excurvate
Cluster:
Commonly Utilized Material:
Date:
Cultural Period:
10,000 - 8,500 B.P.
Transitional Paleo
Early Holocene
Glacial Period:
Culture:
Outline is Representative of Common Size and Shape:
Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:
This is a small to medium
lanceolate point with an elliptical point. The blade is excurvate, curving at the tip and becoming parallel at the hafting area. The base is most commonly deeply concave, but may have a shallow concave base. On some examples the basal ears may turn inward. Grinding on the basal edge
and hafting region may occasionally be seen, but is primarily absent. Some examples may be fluted. The flaking pattern may
vary from collateral to random.
Size Measurements: Total Length - 27 to 67 mm (48 mm average), Blade Width -
21 mm average, Thickness - 6 mm average.
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
This point is primarily found in Tennessee River Valley and it's watersheds. This point may be found with decreased frequency into the Gulf Coastal region.
Additional Comments:
This point is similar to the McKean point found on the Plains region (Cambron reports being found into Alabama), except that this point is older and the
basal edge is steeply beveled (Cambron 1975).
Other points in this Cluster:
Point Validity: Valid Type
Cambron is a distinguished
avocational archaeologist that did extensive work in Alabama and the Tennessee River valley. This point was named in a personally published book. This point has been
referred to in numerous professional publications and is considered a valid type.
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Age Details:
Pictures Provided By:
As Illustrated by Bell, 1958
George Verworren
Mary Jennifer Dunlap
Tracy Davis
J. McCluskey
Ken's Relics
References: (See Reference Page, Entry Number):
12, 23, 30, 178
Wheeler Excurvate Projectile Point, Wheeler Excurvate Arrowhead
