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I realized I haven't posted any pictures here recently, so here are approximately 1,800,000 years of East Texas points in bowl.
I need to reorganize my San Patrice points into a larger frame, so I put all of them inside a Mayan pottery bowl until the larger frame arrives.
San Patrice points have been dated to 10,400 to 9,000 RCYBP (when calibrated that's about 10,000 BC.) San Patrice makers probably bumped into Dalton, Folsom and Cody makers at times. Folsom are older (10,800 to 10,000 RCYBP at Blackwater Draw), but San Patrice overlapped of the Folsom tradition at the tail end, and probably extended into what we think of as the early Archaic. You'll notice a lot of variation in the bowl, and they are better thought of as a cluster of related types vs a single type.
One of the things that I like the most about this cluster of points is that they show their relation to many different types, they are kind of the best missing link out there. They are one of the last true paleo lance point styles, but some examples show notching. Some are clearly fluted like earlier Clovis, most are thinned like Daltons. They have been found on sites with Dalton, Midland, Scottsbluff, and Early Side Notch (Graham Cave, Cache River, etc.) points. Some of them are beveled on one side and resharpened like Red River Cody knives from the West and Edgefield Scrapers from the East.
150 points X 12,000 years old=1,800,000 years of history.
The frame to show the variation before I added a bunch more to the flock.
I need to reorganize my San Patrice points into a larger frame, so I put all of them inside a Mayan pottery bowl until the larger frame arrives.
San Patrice points have been dated to 10,400 to 9,000 RCYBP (when calibrated that's about 10,000 BC.) San Patrice makers probably bumped into Dalton, Folsom and Cody makers at times. Folsom are older (10,800 to 10,000 RCYBP at Blackwater Draw), but San Patrice overlapped of the Folsom tradition at the tail end, and probably extended into what we think of as the early Archaic. You'll notice a lot of variation in the bowl, and they are better thought of as a cluster of related types vs a single type.
One of the things that I like the most about this cluster of points is that they show their relation to many different types, they are kind of the best missing link out there. They are one of the last true paleo lance point styles, but some examples show notching. Some are clearly fluted like earlier Clovis, most are thinned like Daltons. They have been found on sites with Dalton, Midland, Scottsbluff, and Early Side Notch (Graham Cave, Cache River, etc.) points. Some of them are beveled on one side and resharpened like Red River Cody knives from the West and Edgefield Scrapers from the East.
150 points X 12,000 years old=1,800,000 years of history.
The frame to show the variation before I added a bunch more to the flock.
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