TINY Small Stemmed Quartz Point

[MAMucker]

Here is the smallest stemmed point I have ever found

 

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[The Grim Reaper]

Nice piece.

 

[Tdog]

Due to it's asymmetry and apparent thickness, it looks like it was resharpened many times. Nice find.

 

[quito]

Nice arrowhead!

our quartzite “Sioux quartzite” is predominantly red. It outcrops quite a bit in my area? And was used quite a bit.

 

[sandchip]

Now that's a wee biddy!

 

[MAMucker]

There’s another thread/post running here with a challenge to post the smallest arrowhead. I’m sure these were effectively utilized. But, I wonder if some of these were children’s play things; a small bow and arrow set -sort of the ancient BB Gun for the Native American son. Maybe wrapped under the totem pole on winter solstice morning.

 

[ohp733]

Nice find!

 

[Charl]

Nice find. As you likely know, before several of our region's small quartz points were separated as types, we collectors just called all of them "small stem points". Now we call them by Lamoka, Wading River, Squibnocket Stemmed. One of the most interesting things I learned from Boudreau's expanded New England typology is that a study of these various points revealed that most were not projectiles, but instead were used in cutting, graving, boring, and scoring operations. I would never have guessed that as they always seemed like the perfect small projectile point. Boudreau discussed this in an essay in his expanded typology, and that essay was reproduced from a 2008 essay in the MAS Bulletin, which can be read here: "Rethinking Small Stemmed Points":

https://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1185&context=bmas

 

[MAMucker]

Excellent info