Can someone help identify anything about this...

[jamillusions]

Help. I found this what appears to be a quartz or some type of projectile while searching for sea glass at the beach down the street from me. I was wondering if anyone can help identify it. I have looked online and only thing I could find was that quartz arrowheads are rare. I found it off the Magothy River, right around the corner from where the Magothy River meets the Chesapeake Bay. It is also right near Gibson Island, MD....which I know Indians would come to seasonally for hunting and such. I had also read that the Paleos and the Archaic Indians inhibited the area, but as far as QUARTZ arrowheads I was unable to come up with any information. So ANY info that anyone could give me about it would be awesome. Would love to find out more about it.

Thank you! :


http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamillusions/3698036149/
It is a beautiful little gem!!!

 

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[*Molly*]

After much disscussion with a professional collector, from NC. He pointed out to me there are no Halifax points from PA. Also he has pointed out to me time & time again Overstreet is not a reliable source for typology. We have seen several points the same given different ID's.
Anyways, lets just agree to differ. It was just my opinion, for what its worth.

Molly.

 

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[uniface]

For what it's worth (assuming anything) : I had the same problem. Bought GF's first typology book, found a point that looked like a Squibnocket (going by his outline drawings), and he couldn't get it through my head that Squibnocket is a New England type that nobody finds in Pennsylvania because the culture that made them didn't exist here. In short, that the name refers to both the artifact itself and the culture that made it.

We had the same issue come up, not long ago, with a site (put together by a university department) that gave point types in (I think it was) Oklahoma the names assigned to similar ones made elsewhere in the midwest.

Occasionally you see pictures of Barnes (var. Clovis) points and Redstones that look like clumsy Folsom points. But they aren't Folsoms, because the Folsom people never got further east than around Illinois.

Where (IMHO) it gets outright silly is with points that are manifestly the same, made in the same era over a wide area. Nobody succeeds in splitting Clovis points into too many regional species, but the same point in North Carolina is a Hardaway, a San Patrice in Texas, and probably has other names in other places.

With Snyders points, at least there are distinct manufacturing differences between western and eastern forms.

Like any other principle, it's probably solid in the middle and pretty fuzzy around the edges.