Small stone tools and arrow points are among the few remaining traces of human history stretching back over 10,000 years. This convenient guide to the projectile points that can be found in the Midwestern United States is designed as a field reference. It provides a type name and a short description of the physical characteristics, age, and distribution for the most frequently found styles of projectile points. Each type is illustrated with a detailed drawing, and most have cross-sectional views to aid in identification. The authors also provide a guide to the terminology used to describe the physical characteristics of projectile points. Here is the perfect companion to keep at hand in your search for traces of the native peoples of the Midwest.
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Noel D. Justice is Assistant Director and Curator of Collections at the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology at Indiana University. Author of a series of books on stone age spear and arrow points of the regions of the United States, he has spent his life exploring the lands, institutions, and libraries of the U. S. in search of answers to the questions of who the first Americans were, where they lived, and what artifacts they left behind.
Suzanne K. Kudlaty is Curator of the Johnson County Museum in Franklin, Indiana.
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This review is from: Field Guide to Projectile Points of the Midwest: (Paperback)
This small booklet is an incredibly abridged version of Justice's longer book "Stone Age Spear and Arrow Points." Unfortunately all the benefits of the longer text are lost in this shorter "field guide" version. (For details see my review of the book cited above.) Although this book is nice as a pocket manual to carry in the field, it contains only one line drawing of each point type and a very abbreviated description of the points. One must ask the question, "Who really wants to spend their time in the field looking at a book?" Nobody. In the field, one wants to find artifacts. That is, leave the books at home and get down to the business of surveying and collecting. With this said, don't waste your money on this field guide. The larger, more profusely illustrated, and vastly more detailed version is just $10 more in paperback. Buy that instead!
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This book really helped me to identify a bunch of the points I had it's a very easy read and most interesting.
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Clovis projectile points are identified by their distinctive grooved characteristic, or fluting, of each side of the blade. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
basal ears, side notched forms, corner notched, notched points, basal edge, flake scars, stemmed forms, projectile points, concave base, points exhibit, blade edges Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Great Lakes, Ohio Valley, United States, Kirk Corner Notched, Mississippi Valley, Beaver Lake, Brewerton Corner Notched, Morrow Mountain, Table Rock, Tennessee River Valley, Hardin Barbed, Middle South, Nebo Hill, Rice Lobed, Agate Basin, Brewerton Eared-Notched, Jack's Reef Pentagonal, Karnak Stemmed, Merom Expanding Stem, Nodena Elliptical, North America, Raddatz Side Notched, Saratoga Parallel Stemmed New!
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Clovis projectile points are identified by their distinctive grooved characteristic, or fluting, of each side of the blade. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
basal ears, side notched forms, corner notched, notched points, basal edge, flake scars, stemmed forms, projectile points, concave base, points exhibit, blade edges Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Great Lakes, Ohio Valley, United States, Kirk Corner Notched, Mississippi Valley, Beaver Lake, Brewerton Corner Notched, Morrow Mountain, Table Rock, Tennessee River Valley, Hardin Barbed, Middle South, Nebo Hill, Rice Lobed, Agate Basin, Brewerton Eared-Notched, Jack's Reef Pentagonal, Karnak Stemmed, Merom Expanding Stem, Nodena Elliptical, North America, Raddatz Side Notched, Saratoga Parallel Stemmed New!
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- Dating Methods in Archaeology by Joseph W. Michels in Back Matter
- Introduction to the Prehistory of Indiana by James H. Kellar in Back Matter
- Archaeology of the Central Mississippi (New World Archaeological Record Ser) by Phyllis A. Morse in Back Matter
- Ancient North America, Fourth Edition by Brian M. Fagan in Back Matter
- Mound Builders of Ancient America: The Archaeology of a Myth by Robert Silverberg in Back Matter
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