Uniface points anyone??

[Arrow1492]

Does anyone have early archaic points that are uniface (or have limited flaking?) on one side? I have read that early archaic points are always bifacial and never made from a flake. Anyone have any examples they can post?

 

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[joshuaream]

I have a nice dovetail I found in Northern Indiana that is mostly uniface. There are a couple or flakes in the notches and to shape the base, but the blade portion is uniface.

They aren’t common, but seem to be purely knife form of the relatively common early archaic type.

 

[Arrow1492]

Anyway you can post a picture? I’d like to see that
Thanks

 

[Tnmountains]

I have some unifaced points but unsure on AGE.

 

[smokeythecat]

Uniface generally refers to blades and scrapers. I have some collected this summer but no pics as of yet.

 

[tnmudman]

 

[filmiracl]

I know your asking about early archaic points, but just wanted to throw in that I have plenty of uniface points from a woodland camp I hunt... I also have a few uniface late/terminal archaic stemmed points. Well, I should say that I don't think any are truly uniface though, because there's usually a little work on the edges or base. It's not worth posting photos of the stemmed points because they're all broken and worn, but they were made on large flakes.

 

[sandchip]

Here's an Edgefield.

 

[11KBP]

They aren’t common, but seem to be purely knife form of the relatively common early archaic type.

I agree with Joshua and I have also seen a number of of paleo points with one side being unifacial.

 

[ToddsPoint]

When you set out to knap a point you start with a piece of flint. You can go one of two ways with it. Spall it, or center cut it. Center cutting is making the largest possible point from a piece of flint. A center cut point will always be worked on both sides. If you have a large piece of flint, you can center cut or instead, spall it. Spalls are just large flakes, maybe 3-4" across and 1/2" thick. One side of the spall is usually flat and the knapper took advantage of this already flat side and took thinning flakes off the opposite side. A point with one flat side shows good economy on the part of the Indian. More, but smaller points can be made from a nodule by spalling. Gary

 

[IAMZIM]

Best point I found this year was in fact a uniface!