Other Websites with Detailed Information:
Name Details:
Named By: Gregory Perino
Named For: Type Site
Date Identified: 1969
Type Site: North Site,
Clinton County, Illinois
North Bi-Face
(Cache Blade / Pre-form)
Cluster:
Commonly Utilized Material:
Date:
Cultural Period:
2,200 - 1,600 B.P.
Late Archaic to Woodland
Roman Warm
Hopewell Culture
Glacial Period:
Culture:
Outline is Representative of Size and Shape:
Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:
This is a medium to large triangular to ovoid point with an elliptical cross section. The blade is excurvate and may have a round or leaf appearance. The base is convex with rounded basal corners. This point
is made using primary broad shallow percussion flaking, remaining on
the face of the blade, and finished using fine pressure flaking used
to shape and retouch the edges forming a random flaking pattern.
Size Measurements: Total Length -
50 to 200 mm, Blade Width - 35 to 85 mm
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
This point is most common in the Ohio River Valley and into the Great Lakes areas and in area associated with the Hopewell culture. It may also be found in the upper Mississippi River valley, Arkansas River valley,
and the Tennessee River Valley.
Additional Comments:
These points may have served many different purposes from knives to scrappers or points to ceremonial objects. The Snyders point has many different variations that served different purposes or covered different
time spans. It is felt that the Hopewell and Snyders points may have been used in ceremonial purposes while the Affis Snyders point and the Manker point were more of the daily use points. (W2).
The North Blade if felt to be a Snyders preform.
Other points in this Cluster:
Point Validity: Cache Blade / Pre-form 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.
.
Age Details:
References: (See Reference Page, Entry Number):
23, 30, 180, W2
North Projectile Point, North Arrowhead
.jpg)
