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Name Details:
Named By: Gregory Perino
Named For: Type Site
Date Identified: 1962
Type Site: The Schild Site, Illinois
Schild Spike
Cluster:
Commonly Utilized Material:
Date:
Cultural Period:
1,300 - 500 B.P.
Late Woodland to
Mississippian
Roman Warm to Medieval
Warm
Glacial Period:
Culture:
Outline is Representative of Size and Shape:
Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:
This is a small to medium thick narrow expanding stem point. The cross section is primarily elliptical, but may also have a medial
ridge or in some thicker examples may almost be round. The blade may range from excurvate to straight. The shoulders may vary from weak to prominent and are angled upwards. The stem is expanding, but may range to almost straight.
base ranges from straight to convex and may be unfinished, have basal
grinding, or thinning. This points are commonly crudely made and have a random flaking pattern.
Size Measurements: Data Needed, see similar types
below
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
This point is primarily found in Illinois and into Indiana, Missouri, and Kentucky.
Related / Associated Points:
Additional Comments:
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.
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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:
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References: (See Reference Page, Entry Number):
30, 37
Schild Spike Projectile Point, Schild Spike Arrowhead
