New here!! Need help identifying!!

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Central Oregon find. Anybody have any info? I’m dying to know what it is!!
 

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North American Arrowhead Identification Guide

most PNW points are pretty easy to identify by time period, but there is a lot of style variations that are not very well identified. It is best not to rely on a "name" but rather a general style..."side notch", "expanding stem", "cascade series" etc. the diversity of material is unmatched too. It looks like you have jasper, dacite, chalcedony, carnelian, and maybe obsidian too. that big white one is the oldest one you posted and is a material seen in archaic points but disappears later.
 

Wow, nice finds...definitely enjoyed the pics...keep em' comin'! Btw, welcome to Tnet!
 

It looks like a Shaniko / Early Stemmed point. The were originally called Early Stemmed, but then I think it was Jim Houge who started calling them Shaniko stemmed for examples found by Ray Snyder near the town of Shaniko in Wasco Co. Oregon. They are basically a medium-sized Late Archaic to Mid-Woodland stemmed point that's commonly found along the Columbia River and it's tributaries (from Washington to central Oregon). The stems are generally squarish and some examples are lightly ground.
 

I keep going back to the photos and that is a real nice stemmed point . It looks like a little Scottsbluff to me with those squared shoulders Happy hunting .
 

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