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Blitz Quiz on
Projectile Points of the
Tall Grass Prairie PeninsulaThis tutorial is made to accompany the book, The Tall Grass Prairie Peninsula: Its Role in Shaping American Culture. It is an illustration of the kinds of lithic artifacts that can be found all across the surface of the tall grass peninsula. The artifacts illustrated here are from the Peotone, Illinois area and would have probably never come to the public's attention if the area had not been surveyed for the construction of an airport. Our thanks go to Bob Wishoff and Margo Hupe for allowing us to adapt the images from their web offering. [reference]
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This is not really a typical, full blown tutorial with significant discussion and explanation of the material. It is just a "blitz quiz" designed to be a quick review, and maybe even a fun one. Hope you enjoy it.
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DOCUMENT INFORMATION
This document: http://www.prairienet.org/prairienations/PointBlitz/
Prairie Nations Home Page: http://www.prairienet.org/prairienations
Author: Jim Fay
Comments to: jfay@prairienet.org
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Nothing down here. You shouldn't be here. This is out of any frame. Remember, to make this tutorial work you must click on the links to move through the frames. Nothing will make sense if you just scroll through the frames.
Click here to get back to the tutorial.
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"Peotone: Caught in the Middle" is posted at <http://www.dirtbrothers.org/Peotone/> (no date), accessed 9 March 07. Special thanks to Bob Wishoff/dirtbrothers.org.
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1. What point is this?
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1. What point is this?
Matanzas.
Bullet shaped, bullet thick (although you can't see that from the illustration), and "minimally" side notched.
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2. What is this?
Hardin or Hardin Barbed.
. 3.Thebes, and a well used one at that.
4. What is this?
Kirk Notched, or Palmer. Or if you think the lopsidedness is significant, Charleston.
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5.Madison.
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6. What is this?
Big Creek. Gregory Perino describes the tear-drop shape, bulbous base, and needle-like tip. The single dramatic hertzian cone for each side notch is characteristic.
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Bifurcate. For our purposes, that is as specific as we need to get.
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Waubesa, the deep prairie (Illinois and western Indiana) beavertail.
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North, an unnotched Snyders.
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Drill.
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Kramer.
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Bottleneck.
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Late Woodland, a true arrowhead. This is particular point is identified by Perino as a Schild Spike.
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Clovis, the most highly prized point of all.
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St. Charles, also known as Dovetail for its "dovetail" or "rocking chair" base.
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Raddatz.
That concludes the tutorial. Hope you found it valuable.
