Kenneth Honea

Name: Early Man Projectile Points in the Southwest
Author: Kenneth Honea

Early Man Projectile Points in the Southwest

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“Early Man Projectile Points in the Southwest”, is a work by Kenneth Honea. It explores elements such as flake, Upper lateral edges and Basal thinning.

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Kenneth Honea, Early Man Projectile Points in the Southwest

“ It is a curious fact that Early Southwestern Man most often made his tools of very finely textured stone. Perhaps this custom was induced by the exacting, finely controlled technologies of stone flaking practiced and the kinds of tools made. Indeed, workmanship on many projectile points, knives, and scrapers is so well achieved that one is led to believe that Early Man strove to express some degree of esthetic idealism in his tools. ”

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Kenneth Honea, Early Man Projectile Points in the Southwest

“ Browns Valley points are broad lanceolate in shape. Upper lateral edges are slightly rounded. Lower lateral edges are much less rounded, contracting very slightly to either a shallowly concave or straight base. These points are broadest at mid-section. 17 Dimensions are: length 7.0 to 8.0 cm., width 3.0 cm. (full range indeterminate since few specimens known) . Workmanship is fine. Initial shaping may have been by direct or indirect percussion. The initial flake scars are parallel and run obliquely across the point faces; less often they are at right angles. ”

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Kenneth Honea, Early Man Projectile Points in the Southwest

“ Instead of tapering to a rounded base, the straight-edged stem of Sandia II points contracts to a straight or slightly concave base. Workmanship is 6 generally finer than in the other type, though achieved by the same means. Resolved secondary edge thinning is noticeable on many specimens. Sandia II points are also marked by vertical basal thinning, produced by the removal of a large, or several smaller longish flakes parallel to the point long-axis, anticipating perhaps the fluting found on Clovis and Folsom points. Vertical basal thinning is absent on points of the Sandia I type. ”

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Kenneth Honea, Early Man Projectile Points in the Southwest

“ The cultures of Early Man in the Southwest, though yet imperfectly known, seem most readily distinguishable by characteristic types of projectile points. The majority of finds, and they are rare, have been made on the surface ”

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Kenneth Honea, Early Man Projectile Points in the Southwest

“ Kill sites, by contrast, are usually situated on the edges of streams, lakes, or ponds. Features will include animal skeletons, sometimes partially dismembered, points used in killing game, some stone butchering tools such as scrapers, knives, utilized flakes, and waste flakes resulting from the sharpening of stone tools. ”

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Kenneth Honea, Early Man Projectile Points in the Southwest

“ Occupational features generally include hearths, split and charred food bones, debris from stone tool manufacturing, and a full inventory of stone tools. Seeds, grinding stones, storage and cooking pits are rarely found at such early sites. ”

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Kenneth Honea, Early Man Projectile Points in the Southwest

“ Also, Folsom points often have a small nipple in the middle of the basal concavity, a feature lacking on Clovis points.
FOLSOM POINTS
Folsom points were first discovered in the twenties at an Early Man kill site near Folsom, in northeast New Mexico. The points were associated with the remains of an extinct form of giant Late Pleistocene bison. These finds were among the first to demonstrate the great antiquity of man in the New World.
Folsom
Folsom points are symmetrically lanceolate in shape, and are broadest at mid-section or somewhat nearer to the tip. ”

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Kenneth Honea, Early Man Projectile Points in the Southwest

“ Small Clovis points may be confused with Folsom points. However, Clovis points are both thicker and heavier; flutes do not ordinarily extend up the entire face, and workmanship is not as fine as on Folsom points. ”

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