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Name Details:
Named By: Lawrence Tully
Named For: Lyon County Kentucky
Date Identified: 1986
Type Site:
Lyon County
(Collector Type)
Cluster:
Commonly Utilized Material:
Date:
Cultural Period:
9,000 - 8,000 B.P.
Early Archaic
Early Holocene
Glacial Period:
Culture:
Outline is Representative of Size and Shape:
Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:
This is a medium to large triangular corner notch point with an elliptical cross section. The blade may vary from excurvate to recurvate with the tip curving in and curving back out towards the
shoulders. The shoulders are barbed with rounded terminations. The stem is expanding with a concave base. The basal corners are rounded. This point has a random flaking pattern.
Size Measurements: Data Needed
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
This point is reported in Kentucky.
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Point Validity: Collector Type
Tully is an avocational archaeologist who has published books about projectile points in
the Tennessee and Ohio river valley's. This type was named in his personally published book and has no professional references. This is considered a collector type.
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References: (See Reference Page, Entry Number):
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Lyon County Projectile Point, Lyon County Arrowhead
