Re: A Show Me Post!! Everybody has Adena's , Lets see em!!
Hey guys and gals. I'm not trying burst anyones bubble here, but not ALL stemmed points are Adenas. I see some in Bent_Twigs posts that aren't Adenas, a few in Jeff's, and sorry Molly, but I don't believe yours is either. Some of the types I see above are actually Genessee, Snook Kill, and Buck Creek points.
There are two basic types of Adena Points. The Early Adena and the Late Adena, or the Adena Robbins as it is called and they can be hard to tell from some of the earlier Archaic stemmed types. The classic Adena type is of course the Beavertail Type with the nice long rounded base. The Late Adena or Robbins is a more square stemmed point and is hard to distinguish between some of the earlier Arcahic types, but you have to look at the shouldering to see the difference. The Early Adena is very easy to ID because of it's classic Beavertail rounded base. The Robbins isn't as easy to ID though. It will almost always have a very square shoulder that is either straight across or drooping towards the tip slightly. I have never seen an example with a shoulder that sweeps up toward the tip. The Early Adena has basically the same shoulder as it will either droop towards the tip, be rounded off, or straight across, but never sweep up towards the base.
These first 6 pics are of classic Early Adena Points with the rounded "Beavertail" bases.
The next 2 are of Robbins Points.
These next few are of points that may be confused as Adena since they are stemmed, but I don't believe they are. The first one is actually an Archaic Heavy Duty Point. The next one I had thought was an Adena type for years, but it has beveling from resharpening which is not an Adena trait and is more than likely an Archaic Knife of some type. Now this last one still has me confused and maybe some can help me out. It kind of has an Adena look with the body type and the shouldering, but the expanding base throws me off. I haven't seen an Archaic type that matches it either.
Now I may be completely wrong on all of this and if anyone thinks I am don't hesitate to correct me. We are all here to learn from each other and to educate each other, so correcting me won't hurt my feelings one bit.
Thanks for letting me rant. lol
i dont (sniff)
