Hopefully you can help classify

[watercolor]

This is a surface find I made near Chicago this past weekend
while out metal detecting and was hoping for some ideas as to
it's classification & age.

I don't actively search for artifacts like these but when your eyes
are glued to the ground while metal detecting, it's amazing what
you DO find when you least expect it.

Thanks for looking!

 

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[Th3rty7]

Nice find. I dont know much about typology in your area, but that point has early characteristics.

 

[creek astronaut]

I agree with thirty7,looks like early archaic/ paleo,if so probably around 8,000-10,000 years old.nice find

 

[Smurufett]

It could be dalton-sloan or plainveiw I agree with age early archaic time frame

 

[SouthernGirl]

Nice fine

 

[uniface]

From the two impact fractures visible in the bottom picture, I'd say it's the broken blade section of a(n originally longer) point salvaged by working a new base into it.

With that possibility in mind, check the base in the top picture, which shows the end of what looks like it was a step-terminated flute, along with a second one parallel to it that ran a little further up the top edge.

 

[watercolor]

Thanks everyone for all your insights and comments on this point.
I had no idea it could fall in the Archaic time period.

Thanks again everyone!
watercolor

 

[Th3rty7]

Thanks everyone for all your insights and comments on this point.
I had no idea it could fall in the Archaic time period.

Thanks again everyone!
watercolor

Imo that point is paleo or transitional. I've got a clovis from Ky. that has very similar flaking and the work on the base is nearly identical, it's even stacked up on one side like your piece.