Sweet Levanna

[arrow86]

I got out yesterday after work for a quick hunt down the river and hit a new spot. I found this point with one ear sticking out of the rocks and sand I could tell it had some nice flaking but wasn’t expecting it to be this nice the material is beautiful. It’s translucent which I tried to show in a few pics .... sunlight would have been better but apparently spring isn’t happening this year as were getting sleet rite now and snow rite behind it.

Sorry for so many pics but it’s the nicest point Iv found this year
Also found this quartz point it was rite at the low tide water marker

Also found this really rough point and another broken triangle

Bunch of flakes and a nice piece of pottery

 

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[ptsofnc]

Very nice finds!

 

[BrettCo124]

Awesome finds arrow. Love that Levanna.

 

[lairmo]

Nice!! I've only found one point on a beach. I think it was somewhere between Gulfport and Biloxi when I was a teenager.

 

[Shorewalker]

Nice material on the Levanna. The pattern on the pottery is neat!

 

[Charl]

Great hunt! As soon as I saw your point, but before reading your comments, I said "hey, looks like it has a single ear". You may be familiar with the Brewerton Eared Triangle type. Well, there is a common variant of that type that have only a single ear. I think more then half the examples of that type I find are the single ear variant. Your's might be one as well, but you know your spots better then I do. I just could not help but notice that slightly dinged ear. Number 6 at this link shows one ear. Number 4 at the link has two ears, but is a shorter, resharpened eared triangle similar in shape to your's. Just a suggestion that it might be a single eared version of that type, and much older then Levanna. Nice point by any name!

New York State Museum - Projectile Point Type Collection

New York State Museum - Projectile Point Type Collection

 

[arrow86]

Great hunt! As soon as I saw your point, but before reading your comments, I said "hey, looks like it has a single ear". You may be familiar with the Brewerton Eared Triangle type. Well, there is a common variant of that type that have only a single ear. I think more then half the examples of that type I find are the single ear variant. Your's might be one as well, but you know your spots better then I do. I just could not help but notice that slightly dinged ear. Number 6 at this link shows one ear. Number 4 at the link has two ears, but is a shorter, resharpened eared triangle similar in shape to your's. Just a suggestion that it might be a single eared version of that type, and much older then Levanna. Nice point by any name!

New York State Museum - Projectile Point Type Collection

New York State Museum - Projectile Point Type Collection

Good call I think you are correct , I was just checking it out originally I thought it was a broken piece missing but it looks intentionally ground on that corner .... does that variant type have a different name ? Here’s a few more pics of it.... something else that’s cool that I have had happen to a few points is the colors changing ..... from yesterday afternoon till now the color has changed a lot

 

[Charl]

Here's what Jeff Boudreau had to say in his description in his recently published expanded typology: "Some examples have ears produced by shallow side-notches set very low on the blade. Another form has ears that result from continuous blade retouching that isolates the lower corners of the blade. As a result, these points are always widest at the base. Some have ears produced by the combination of both methods. In some cases the ears are barely discernible. One-eared forms are not unusual".

So, no, there is not a different name for single-eared examples. The photo shows the two ways, described above, in which the ears were produced:

 

[Charl]

Also, Jeff states that "the ears may be ground".

 

[arrow86]

Gotcha , so probably had ears on both sides and maybe the one side broke off and was retouched. Mine definitely looks like it is this type ..... hmmm maybe I should change the name of the post lol

 

[Charl]

Gotcha , so probably had ears on both sides and maybe the one side broke off and was retouched. Mine definitely looks like it is this type ..... hmmm maybe I should change the name of the post lol

Actually, the truly single eared variants seem to have simply been made that way, for whatever reason....

 

[arrow86]

Actually, the truly single eared variants seem to have simply been made that way, for whatever reason....

Wonder if it’s for hafting purposes , I have noticed quite a few of these style points that all have a raised section or almost a bump in them all near the same place surely it’s intentional just not sure what purpose it served. Guess it would help gripping it if holding by hand but that’s all I can come up with. Do any of the ones you find have that same characteristic? Here’s few pics of what I’m talking about it’s visible on the point above but hard to see in pics but a few other points easier to see.

Thanks for the info you have provided already always good to learn !

 

[rock]

Thats some good eyes to see some of them in the rocks as they are stained just like the others. Cleaned up nice to, congrats on a good hunt.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Very nice looking points. The coloration on the first one is outstanding.

 

[Wandermore91]

I can’t leave the flakes behind either even though I know they are nothing compared to the product of them [emoji51] I figure one day I’ll use them as toppers in plant pots, or something lol..

 

[arrow86]

I can’t leave the flakes behind either even though I know they are nothing compared to the product of them [emoji51] I figure one day I’ll use them as toppers in plant pots, or something lol..

Yeah I’m not half as bad as I use to be ... now I only keep the nicer ones .... unique color or shape at one point I had a filled mason jar on every window ledge in the kitchen and mud room ... wife didn’t like my decorating scheme but I can keep the points on their still .....all about compromise lol

 

[Charl]

Wonder if it’s for hafting purposes , I have noticed quite a few of these style points that all have a raised section or almost a bump in them all near the same place surely it’s intentional just not sure what purpose it served. Guess it would help gripping it if holding by hand but that’s all I can come up with. Do any of the ones you find have that same characteristic? Here’s few pics of what I’m talking about it’s visible on the point above but hard to see in pics but a few other points easier to see.
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Thanks for the info you have provided already always good to learn !

Those are not intentional. It's called a "stack", and it's actually a defect that, for various reasons, could not be removed in the knapping/thinning of a piece. A knapper could explain a stack way better then I can, actually. But they are not deliberate or intentional.

 

[StoneHunter]

Wow, that levanna does look like it's made of English flint! I read an article last night which included pics of two arrowheads made of English flint having been recovered during an archeological dig at Jamestown. I'm now researching the port town near the location where I've collected the flint. Great finds man!

 

[dognose]

good stuff!

 

[arrow86]

Wow, that levanna does look like it's made of English flint! I read an article last night which included pics of two arrowheads made of English flint having been recovered during an archeological dig at Jamestown. I'm now researching the port town near the location where I've collected the flint. Great finds man!

They may look similar but that point was made hundreds of years earlier , there’s so much material available on the beaches around that area. A lot of the jasper points trace back to Pennsylvania there is a huge jasper quarry