St. Charles
Time Period : 7500 B.C. to 6000 B.C.
Location : Midwestern to Eastern states.
Shape : Corner Notched
Description:
Also known as Dovetail. A medium to large size, broad, thin, elliptical, corner notched point with a dovetail base. Blade edges are beveled on opposite sides when resharpened. The base is convex and most examples exhibit high quality flaking. There is a rare variant that has the barbs clipped (clipped wing) as in the Decatur type. There are many variations on base style from bifurcated to eared, rounded or squared. Base size varies from small to very large.
From a technical point of view Dovetail/St. Charles is a cluster not a type, there are at least four or five statistically different types of dovetail. The classic Ohio button base, two varieties from Illinois and Missouri, a generic non button base style common in parts of Ohio, Indiana -and- Kentucky. I did an undergrad thesis on them, measured the width of the base relative to the neck, width -and- depth and angle of notches, and there were four very distinct clusters and a fifth if you included a notched base version. This paragraph courtesy of Clovisoid
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Time Period : 7500 B.C. to 6000 B.C.
Location : Midwestern to Eastern states.
Shape : Corner Notched
Description:
Also known as Dovetail. A medium to large size, broad, thin, elliptical, corner notched point with a dovetail base. Blade edges are beveled on opposite sides when resharpened. The base is convex and most examples exhibit high quality flaking. There is a rare variant that has the barbs clipped (clipped wing) as in the Decatur type. There are many variations on base style from bifurcated to eared, rounded or squared. Base size varies from small to very large.
From a technical point of view Dovetail/St. Charles is a cluster not a type, there are at least four or five statistically different types of dovetail. The classic Ohio button base, two varieties from Illinois and Missouri, a generic non button base style common in parts of Ohio, Indiana -and- Kentucky. I did an undergrad thesis on them, measured the width of the base relative to the neck, width -and- depth and angle of notches, and there were four very distinct clusters and a fifth if you included a notched base version. This paragraph courtesy of Clovisoid
A few of our members finds:
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