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Examples of fluted and unfluted Dalton points. The Dalton tradition is a Late Paleo-Indian and Early Archaic projectile point tradition. These points appeared in most of southeast North America from c. 10,700 BCE to at least c. 8,400 BCE.
The Calf Creek culture was active during the early to middle Archaic period in the Americas, approximately 7,500 to 4,000 years ago. The Calf Creek people were noted for their use of large, heat-treated flint spearheads. The Calf Creek point was first named and described in an Arkansas amateur archaeological journal by Don Dickson in 1968, for ...
Using radio carbon dating and other techniques, the archaeologists determined that most of the artifacts they found were from two distinct periods: 6,000 to 5,500 BC or middle archaic and the ...
The oldest projectile points found in North America were long thought to date from about 13,000 years ago, during the Paleo-Indian period, however recent evidence suggests that North American projectile points may date to as old as 15,500 years. [2] Some of the more famous Paleo-Indian types include Clovis, Folsom and Dalton points. [3]
A new analysis of arrowheads at a Bronze Age site in Germany shows that local warriors clashed with an army from the south 3,250 years ago. Thousands of bones and hundreds of weapons reveal grisly ...
Hell Gap (Smithsonian trinomial: 48GO305) is a deeply stratified archaeological site located in the Great Plains of eastern Wyoming, approximately thirteen miles north of Guernsey, where an abundant amount of Paleoindian and Archaic artifacts have been found and excavated since 1959. [2]
by Time Period Early Archaic 8000 – 6000 BCE Plano cultures: 9,000 – 5,000 BCE Paleo-Arctic tradition: 8000 – 5000 BCE Maritime Archaic: Red Paint People: 3000 – 1000 BCE Middle Archaic 6000 – 3000 BCE Chihuahua tradition: c. 6000 BCE – c. 250 CE Watson Brake and Lower Mississippi Valley sites c. 3500 – 2800 BCE Late Archaic 3000 ...
Firearms from this period are scarce. Most were made from bronze, a valuable and easily reusable material, and were often reforged into more modern shapes or different items altogether.