Outline is Representative of Size and Shape: 
Name Details:
Identified By: Dorothy Cross
Named For: Abbott Farm (Minisink Site location)
Date Identified: 1943
Type Site: Minisink Site (36PI04), Pennsylvania
Identified By: Dorothy Cross
Named For: Abbott Farm (Minisink Site location)
Date Identified: 1943
Type Site: Minisink Site (36PI04), Pennsylvania
Point Validity: Provisional type
Cross was a pioneering anthropologist who served as a professor at Hunter College in New York and as a curator at the New Jersey State Museum. This point was named in a professional publication and has limited professional references. This is considered a provisional type.
Abbott Side Notch
(Provisional Type)Cluster:
Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:
This is a small to medium (1 1/2 to 2 1/2 inch) triangular corner notch point. The blade may vary from excurvate to recurvate and commonly has an asymmetrical appearance. The stem is expanding with a convex base. This point is made from a flake and is uni-facial. Some examples show notch retouching on the smooth side.
Size Measurements:
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Commonly Utilized Material:
Additional Comments:
This type is similar to the Brewerton Side Notch, but this point is a unifacial point made from a flake.
See:
McNett, Charles W. (1985), Shawnee Minisink: a Stratified Paleoindian-Archaic Site in the Upper Delaware Valley of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Academic Press
Cross, Dorothy (1943), The Effect of the Abbott Farm on Eastern Chronology, Proceeding of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 86, Philadelphia, pp. 315 - 319
This type is similar to the Brewerton Side Notch, but this point is a unifacial point made from a flake.
See:
McNett, Charles W. (1985), Shawnee Minisink: a Stratified Paleoindian-Archaic Site in the Upper Delaware Valley of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Academic Press
Cross, Dorothy (1943), The Effect of the Abbott Farm on Eastern Chronology, Proceeding of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 86, Philadelphia, pp. 315 - 319
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
The full distribution of this type is not known, but thought to be found through-out the Delaware River valley in New York, Pennsylvania New Jersey, and Delaware.
The full distribution of this type is not known, but thought to be found through-out the Delaware River valley in New York, Pennsylvania New Jersey, and Delaware.
Age / Periods:
Date: 8,000 - 7,000 B.P.
Cultural Period: Early Archaic
Glacial Period: Middle Holocene
Culture:
Date: 8,000 - 7,000 B.P.
Cultural Period: Early Archaic
Glacial Period: Middle Holocene
Culture:
Age Details:
Similar Points:
Brewerton Side Notch
Brewerton Side Notch
Other points in this cluster / Related points:
