What kind of points are these ???

[larson1951]

I find many different styles of points in the same field
must have been many occupants over many years
now what are these ?

 

[JUNKYARD DOG]

Sorry, dont know what to type them other than they are beautiful.. Take care.. JYD...

 

[quito]

Those would be Hell Gap points Larson. They are Paleo pieces, and date from 9500 to 10,300 years before present.

Are the bases ground real nice?

Joel

 

[larson1951]

thanks joel
yes they seem to be

 

[quito]

I kinda figured they'd be ground Lars. The agate type material piece is a real gem of a point. Congratulations on having such a great site at your disposal.

keep those photo's coming.

 

[uniface]

Back in the Holocene era, everything got much warmer and drier. When it did, the folks who had been fat and happy on the western plains (Folsom. Hell Gap, Agate Basin &c.) saw their lakes and lush prarie gradually turn into scrubland. As a result, they followed the retreat of the environment they were used to (and its animals) northeastward, ending up in Illinois, the Dakotas and that part of the country in general.

50 years ago, Dragoo called this the Aquaplano era.

 

[uniface]

Bearing on this :

These subdivisions [of Paleo into Gainey, Parkhill and Crowfield] are growing evidence that un-notched, Late Paleoindian point styles persisted to perhaps as late as 8,000 BP [6,000 BC] and, in fact, at least in the upper Great Lakes the sequence of point forms in the area seems to have more in common with the plains and other areas to the west than to areas further south. If one equates Paleoindian with unnotched points and Archaic with notched points, then there is probably little or no Early Archaic (traditionally dated between 10,000 and 8,000 BP) in the upper Great Lakes, northernmost New England the Canadian Maritime Provinces and, perhaps, parts of the Atlantic Seaboard extending as far south as New Jersey" (see Cavallo, 1981).]

 

[abarnard]

Looks to be hell gap to me. I see bigger examples in TX. Sweet finds.. Thanks for sharing..

 

[bravowhiskey]

A good point, (no pun intended) Larson. I, too, find quite a variety of different points on the family farm. I had always assumed there would be more similarities than differences.
Your finds, as always, are as diverse as they are astonishing.

BW