Point
date: label: Accession Date
content: 19 Mar 1986
label: Collection Date
content: 1962 - 1970
name: label: Collector
content: Mrs. Charlotte Stein
label: Collector
content: Mr. Sidney Stein
label: Donor Name
content: Mr. Sidney Stein
label: Site Name
content: Mason Ridge Site 6 And 6a
notes: label: Notes
content: VARIOUS SPECIMENS OF PROJECTILE POINTS REPRESENTATIVE OF ARCHAIC ALABAMA CULTURE. 35 OF THE SPECIMENS ARE FAIRLY COMPLETE IN BASIC POINT SHAPES AND FEATURES, RANGING FROM STEMMED, NOTCHED AND STEMLESS POINTS WITH SERRATED AND GROUND BLADE EDGES. FLAKING IS RANDOM ON ALL OF THE POINTS THE CROSS SECTION OF ALL OF THE SPECIMENS FALL INTO THE CLASSIFICATION OF BICONVEX THE REMAINING 4 SPECIMENS ARE LOWER HALVES WHICH REFLECTS THE SHOULDERS AND BASE(HAFTING AREAS-WORKMANSHIP APPEARS TO BE CONSISTENT. PERIOD ARCHAIC TO LATE ARCHAIC. CHERT & LOCAL MATERIAL CHERT VARIES FROMDARK GRAY TO LIGHTGRAY WITH TAN - SOME SHOW DISCOLORATION
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 50
place: label: Place
content: Limestone County, Alabama, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Archaic
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 358144
label: USNM Number
content: A527146-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Point
physicalDescription: label: Length - Largest Complete
content: 6 cm
label: Width - Largest Complete
content: 2 cm
label: Minimum Length - Object
content: 2 cm
label: Minimum Width - Object
content: 1 cm