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Name Details:
Named By: Gregory Perino
Named For: Pike County, Illinois
Date Identified: 1985
Type Site:
Pike County
Cluster:
Commonly Utilized Material:
Date:
Cultural Period:
9,500 - 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 large auriculate lanceolate with an elliptical cross section. The blade is
recurvate with the tip curving in, becoming parallel towards the middle, curving back in, forming a constricted waist, and flaring back out at the base. The base is concave with basal grinding. This
point has a parallel flaking pattern.
Size Measurements: Total Length - 60 to
120 mm, Blade Width - 20 to 35 mm (***based on small sample
size***)
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
This point is primarily found in the Illinois Valley and into the mid Mississippi River basin. This point may be found into Iowa, Kansas, and Oklahoma.
Related / Associated Points:
Dalton Additional Comments:
Other points in this Cluster:
Point Validity: Valid Type
Perino was a well-respected
self-taught archeologist who was the founder of the Illinois State Archeological Society. This point was named in a professional publication and has professional
references to this type. This is a valid type.
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Age Details:
References: (See Reference Page, Entry Number):
23, 30
Pike County Projectile Point, Pike County Arrowhead
