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    This one won't win any beauty contests, but it's the first point I found on my own back in the day. It came from Washington County, RI, and is 1 1/4 inches. Dart point maybe? Arrowhead? Beats the heck out of me.

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    That is a very aesthetically pleasing quartz point.
    Professor Shellman
    Tampa Bay

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    • #3
      Nice! It would likely fall into the Wading River type, which is Late Archaic well into later Woodland times.

      BTW, Boudreau suggested, based on tip analysis, that most of these so-called "Small Stem" points were used in graving, scoring, boring activities, and not used as projectiles. Really surprised me to learn that.

      Also interesting is that they were the product of a quartz pebble industry, and not produced from quarried quartz....
      Last edited by CMD; 10-09-2019, 05:47 PM.
      Rhode Island

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      • Cecilia
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        Lotsa good info in response!

    • #4
      Hey Pete, That is a beautiful quartz point. It takes some real skill to knap quartz like that.
      Michigan Yooper
      If You Don’t Stand for Something, You’ll Fall for Anything

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