Kirk Serrated bifurcated point

[Ron Kelley]

WOW Johnny, You really scored on that hunt. Great finds all.

[Hoss]

Those are nice Johnny thanks for sharing.

[Von]

Oh Yes! That's exactly what I was talking about and what I thought. Serrated, beveled with a ground base. It looks more like a Dalton than a Kirk to me but with all that sharpening it's hard to say? No matter what it's a super find. I've been dreaming about one like that!

Von

[OBION]

Beautiful artifacts! Wicked serrations

[lukecreekwalker]

That's a great find man. Congrats to you

[Kyflintguy]

Kirk stemmed can also be beveled, not common but it happens in there knife forms...

[Taterman421]

I think of transitional forms being made from cultures/tribes possibly exchanging ideas, taking over for resources or maybe even making slaves/captives of the weaker tribes/more passive tribes. Kirks culture (and there are many forms/types that resemble them in the US) must have had some dominance at the end of the paleo/beginning of the Archaic period. Look at this point (even other Kirks I've seen) tell me those serrations don't look wicked! I can think of some other types right now from NC that I believe were made from the idea of a Kirk culture (Palmer, St. Albans, Stanley). Kirks were corner notched, stemmed, bifuricated and side notched probably also. Actually I can't think of it being the same Natives because the form is so widespread throughout the US it's like a cognitive framework. Their design may have derived from the transitional paleo Dalton type along with the ideas of other types/cultures they encountered (Daltons can have fluting as paleo forms do).