Point, Projectile

Object/Artifact

St. Joseph Museums

Name/Title

Point, Projectile

Entry/Object ID

192/700

Description

PROJECTILE POINT / CREME COLOR / TYPE: NARROW NOTCH St. Charles Corner Notch

Collection

ARCHAEOLOGY

Made/Created

Place

Continent

North America

Notes

Date: 10,000 - 8,000 B.P. Cultural Period: Early Archaic Glacial Period: Early to Middle Holocene

Ethnography

Culture/Tribe

Needs to be Identified

Notes

Originally catalogued as Eastern United States. Accession book does not indicate geographic affiliation

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Point, Projectile

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Edged Weapons

Nomenclature Class

Armaments

Nomenclature Category

Category 05: Tools & Equipment for Science & Technology

Dimensions

Height

3/8 in

Width

1-1/2 in

Length

4-5/8 in

Condition

Overall Condition

Good

Maintenance

Maintenance History

Date

Jan 8, 2008

Research Notes

Notes

This projectile point is called a St. Charles Corner Notch point and is between 10,000 and 8,000 years old. During this time, the Early Archaic people would have been hunting deer, elk, bear, and wolves. Mammoths had gone extinct almost 1000 years before this projectile point was created.