Guide to the Identification of Certain American Indian Projectile Points
Creators: name: Bell, Robert E.
Publisher: name: Oklahoma Anthropological Society
Year: 1958
Subjects: subject: Missouri (State / Territory)
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subject: Republic of Costa Rica (Country)
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subject: Trinity River
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subject: Tennessee (State / Territory)
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subject: Ohio (State / Territory)
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subject: Kansas (State / Territory)
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subject: California (State / Territory)
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subject: Pecos River
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subject: Colorado (State / Territory)
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subject: Arizona (State / Territory)
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subject: Red River
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subject: Folsom
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subject: Washita River Phase
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subject: Custer Focus
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subject: EVA FOCUS
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subject: FOURCHE MALINE FOCUS
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subject: PaleoIndian
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subject: Clovis
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subject: Folsom
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subject: Dalton
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subject: Archaic
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subject: Falcon Focus
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subject: Edwards Plateau Aspect
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subject: Late Archaic
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subject: East Texas Aspect
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subject: Wylie Focus
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subject: Woodland
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subject: Gibson Aspect
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subject: Henrietta Focus
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subject: Early Woodland
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subject: Galveston Bay Focus
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subject: Texarkana Focus
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subject: Carrollton Focus
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subject: Trinity Aspect
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subject: Llano Complex
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subject: Mier Focus
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subject: Brownsville Focus
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subject: Arkansas Focus
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subject: Gahagan Focus
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subject: Spiro Focus
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subject: Rockport Focus
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subject: Aransas Focus
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subject: Adena
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subject: Alto Focus
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subject: Belcher Focus
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subject: Optima Phase
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subject: Pecos River Focus
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subject: Grove Focus
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subject: Antelope Creek Focus
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subject: Chipped Stone
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subject: Milnesand Point
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subject: Meserve Point
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subject: Eva Point
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subject: Adena Point
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subject: Afton Point
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subject: Lerma Point
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subject: San Patrice Point
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subject: Hayes Point
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subject: Dalton Point
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subject: Osceola Point
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subject: Scottsbluff Point
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subject: Marcos Point
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subject: Gary Point
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subject: Talco Point
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subject: Lange Point
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subject: Marshall Point
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subject: Snyders Point
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subject: Abasolo Point
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subject: Alba Point
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subject: Bassett Pointed Stem
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subject: Carrollton Point
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subject: Alba Barbed
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subject: Bassett Point
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subject: Evans Point
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subject: McKean Point
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subject: Kinney Point
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subject: Catan Point
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subject: Plainview Point
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subject: Edgewood Point
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subject: Montell Point
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subject: Morhiss Point
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subject: Matamoros Point
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subject: Maud Point
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subject: Nolan Point
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subject: Langtry Point
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subject: Harrell Point
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subject: Wells Point
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subject: Pedernales Point
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subject: Morris Point
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subject: Nodena Point
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subject: Trinity Point
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subject: Tortugas Point
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subject: Washita Point
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subject: Pandale Point
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subject: Travis Point
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subject: Reed Point
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subject: Refugio Point
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subject: Folsom Point
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subject: Clovis Point
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subject: Motley Point
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subject: Sandia Point
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subject: Collections Research
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subject: Heritage Management
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description: This guide to the identification of certain American Indian projectile points is designed to acquaint the reader with a series of projectile point types that have been identified and named by archaeologists. As a guide it is far from complete, and there are many additional types of projectile points that are not included; also, there are a number of distinctive forms which have not been typed. There are somewhere between 150 and 200 projectile point types that have been named in the United States; of these, only 50 are discussed here, for reasons that will be mentioned in the text. This publication is entirely the result of interest expressed by members of the Oklahoma Anthropological Society and other persons interested in arrowheads. It is designed to bring together available information on projectile point types for amateur archaeologists, collectors, or anyone having an interest in the subject. This information, for the most part, is scattered throughout a variety of sources, often publications of limited distribution or those obscured by a more technical language, so that it is frequently available only to the professional archaeologist.