Can't make up my mind - New England Sea Coast Paleo?

[MAMucker]

This one has me intrigued, and I'd like to know what the forum thinks about it.

It has been tossed and polished and left with a shiney rusty patina. I'm not sure about the lithic, but it could be made from a native quartzite.

I'm on the fence between a Paleo and an Eared Triangular Brewerton. It clearly has a fine display side and problems on the other.

What do you think?







and the cleanup...

 

[Charl]

MAMucker, before I forget, I love your personal find Brewertons. Great examples of two types in that series!

According to Gramly, fluted point technology, and fluted point hunters, persisted longer in New England then elsewhere, due, apparently, to caribou migration lasting longer here. But the rounds of the Early Paleo fluted point hunters meant they were able to access Hudson Valley cherts, and lithics like Munsungun chert from northern Maine. Usually, the transition to local and regional lithics in Late Paleo times reflected hunters actually settling in year round in New England, and more reliance on regional rhyolites and other lithics like quartzite. So our Late Paleo lances, like Ste. Anne-Varney( Eastern analog of Eden points), and Eastern Agate Basin are seldom made from exotics sourced at a great distance.

The more I look at your point, the more I agree with others that it's more likely a Dalton family form. Which should be Transitional Paleo-Earliest Archaic in our region.

 

[MAMucker]

MAMucker, before I forget, I love your personal find Brewertons. Great examples of two types in that series!

According to Gramly, fluted point technology, and fluted point hunters, persisted longer in New England then elsewhere, due, apparently, to caribou migration lasting longer here. But the rounds of the Early Paleo fluted point hunters meant they were able to access Hudson Valley cherts, and lithics like Munsungun chert from northern Maine. Usually, the transition to local and regional lithics in Late Paleo times reflected hunters actually settling in year round in New England, and more reliance on regional rhyolites and other lithics like quartzite. So our Late Paleo lances, like Ste. Anne-Varney( Eastern analog of Eden points), and Eastern Agate Basin are seldom made from exotics sourced at a great distance.

The more I look at your point, the more I agree with others that it's more likely a Dalton family form. Which should be Transitional Paleo-Earliest Archaic in our region.

Charlie,
Thanks again for digging in and providing a solid resource and your knowledgeable opinion.
If I can paraphrase Bill Moody, .. every piece tells a little bit more of the story.

 

[MAMucker]

If you all don’t mind, I’d like to open this ‘cold case’ file and request a skilled nappers opinion -an experts testimony or speculation (if you will) regarding the indent on the base. Was there an attempt at reduction, thinning, a fluting accident, or maybe a material flaw that caused the concavity on that one side?

 

[Charl]

If you all don’t mind, I’d like to open this ‘cold case’ file and request a skilled nappers opinion -an experts testimony or speculation (if you will) regarding the indent on the base. Was there an attempt at reduction, thinning, a fluting accident, or maybe a material flaw that caused the concavity on that one side?

I'm not a knapper, but that just looks like basal thinning to me. I see lots of points with basal thinning on one face only.

 

[pghDFXer]

Almost looks fire treated , little reddish,

 

[MAMucker]

The reddish color is from stewing over a long period of time in a heavily mineralized iron/rust saturated gravel along a salt water shoreline. There are many rock specimens in that deposit area that have the same coating (patina).