Rock, Paper, Scissors - Arrowhead Collecting On The Web

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Arrowhead Collecting On The Web
Arrowhead Collecting On The Web
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My grandfather, Donald Wilkins, always
used to say that he “was born in Kentucky
and fetched up in Misery.”
Long Before My Grandfather’s Parents Had An Old Kentucky
Home, There Was A Major Concentration Of Population Where
The Ohio River Crosses Middle America To The Mississippi.
These four fl int or carnelian agate Archaic period dart points were found on a farm in Smith
County, Tennessee. They were in a set of three frames of fi eld grade Archaic period points
which the publisher purchased in 2007.
MISSISSIPPI
RIVER
OHIO RIVER
From left to right, these points seem to be:
a “Pine Tree”, an early Archaic medium to
large side notched, usually serrated point
in use from 8000 to 5000 B.P.; a “Beacon
Island”, a late Archaic, 4000 to 3000 B.P.,
small to large sized, triangular point with
a rounded, bulbous base and defi ned, even
barbed shoulders; another “Beacon Island”
point; and perhaps a well-used “Pentagonal
Knife” from the middle Archaic period 6500
to 4000 B.P.
(...continues on p. 5)
Volume II, Number 12 4
December 2010
MISSISSIPPI RIVER