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With a couple of triangle threads active lately, I thought I'd show examples of the earliest triangles from my region. Those familiar with this type name from the Mid Atlantic will note there is not much similarity in form. It's really a borrowed name I guess, and perhaps another name will be erected for these if they are ever found in a context that can be dated. At any rate, they are assumed to date to the earliest Archaic.
Here is a display of examples in the Robbins Museum of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society:
Here are three Rhode Island examples identified by the late Jeff Boudreau, who wrote our region's most recent typology/ Left and middle found by the wife and I. Example on right found by the wife of our friend Jeff(JMatt):
I love how deep the base is on the quartz example. Boudreau states that this type may be "a vestige of Paleo points with roots in the fluted tradition", and there is flute-like thinning on the quartz example, which is hard to see because of the material. An erose example, also common in the type...
These are often resharpened to the point where the hafting area is wider then the blade. Damage at one corner here makes that less obvious then it was prior to that damage. Boudreau states that these points are seldom found broken, and are often worked to nub stage. He felt they were likely used as knives.
Feel free to post examples from New England, or from other regions. Again, those from the Mid Atlantic home region look quite different....
Here is a display of examples in the Robbins Museum of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society:
Here are three Rhode Island examples identified by the late Jeff Boudreau, who wrote our region's most recent typology/ Left and middle found by the wife and I. Example on right found by the wife of our friend Jeff(JMatt):
I love how deep the base is on the quartz example. Boudreau states that this type may be "a vestige of Paleo points with roots in the fluted tradition", and there is flute-like thinning on the quartz example, which is hard to see because of the material. An erose example, also common in the type...
These are often resharpened to the point where the hafting area is wider then the blade. Damage at one corner here makes that less obvious then it was prior to that damage. Boudreau states that these points are seldom found broken, and are often worked to nub stage. He felt they were likely used as knives.
Feel free to post examples from New England, or from other regions. Again, those from the Mid Atlantic home region look quite different....
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