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Name Details:
Named By: James Cambron
Named For: Type Site
Date Identified: 1969
Type Site: New Market site, Madison County, Alabama
New Market
Cluster:
Commonly Utilized Material:
Date:
Cultural Period:
3,000 - 1,000 B.P.
Woodland
Neoglacial to Medieval Warm
Glacial Period:
Culture:
Outline is Representative of Size and Shape:
Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:
This is a thick small to medium
triangular stemmed point. The cross section may range from elliptical to having a median ridge giving the point a spike appearance. The blade is primarily excurvate, but may vary to straight. Some examples may have a recurvate blade, flaring out at the shoulders edge. The shoulders may range from having an upward angle to almost being horizontal. The shoulders are commonly asymmetrical with one shoulder being higher than the other shoulder. The stem is contracting with a flat to convex base. This point has a random flaking pattern.
Size Measurements:
Total Length - 45 to 61 mm (51 mm average), Stem
Length - 9
to 12 mm (11 mm average), Blade Width - 15 to 18
mm (17 mm average), Stem Width - 10 to 13
mm (12 mm average), Thickness - 6 to 9 mm
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
This point is primarily found in the Tennessee River Valley.
Additional Comments:
These points were originally classified as the Randolph point by Cambron (1969). It was established that these points were flaked differently than the Randolph point as well as associated with a different
culture. The Randolph point is primarily associated with the Piedmont where these points are associated with the Tennessee River Valley (Cambron, 1969).
Schroder (W18) notes
the difference between the spike type points found in Georgia and Florida.
He points out that the Bradley
Spike has a stem that varies from straight to contracting with a pointed
base. The Duval point has a
straight to bulbous style stem. The Flint River point
has a rounded stem. The New
Market point has a contracting stem. The Schild point has a short
straight to slightly expanding stem, and the Florida Spike has a
straight to contracting stem with a straight base. The name Woodland
Spike was a term used by Whatley that lumped all the Woodland period spike
type points into a single category. Farr credits Whatley for the term
Woodland Spike while Schroder credits Jerald Ledbetter for the name.
Other points in this Cluster:
Point Validity: Valid Type
Cambron is a distinguished avocational archaeologist that did extensive work in Alabama and the Tennessee River valley. This point was named in a personally published book. This point has been referred to in numerous professional publications and is considered a valid type.
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Age Details:
References: (See Reference Page, Entry Number):
12, 23, 30
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