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Name Details:
Named By: Butler
Named For: Type Site
Date Identified: 1978
Type Site: Wadsen (Owl Cave), Snake River Plain, Idaho
 Owl Cave
(Collector Type)
Cluster:







Commonly Utilized Material:


Date:                   
Cultural Period:   
9,500 - 8,500 B.P.
Transitional Paleo
Late Pleistocene

Glacial Period:
Culture:
     
      


Outline is Representative of Size and Shape:
Owl Cave Projectile Point



Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:

This is a medium lanceolate point with an elliptical cross section.  The blade is excurvate with the tip curving in, becoming widest at the mid-point, and curving back in towards the base.  The base may vary from straight to slightly concave with basal grinding present.  This point has a random flaking pattern.    

Size Measurements:  Total Length - 36 to 90 mm,  (average 45 to 55 mm),  Blade Width - 17 to 39 mm
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:

This point is primarily associated with the Snake River Plains and through-out the Great Basin.

Similar Points:
Agate Basin, Alder Complex, Haskett, Humboldt, Goshen, Green River, Midland
Related / Associated Points:
Additional Comments:

This point is named for examples that were recovered from the Wasden (Owl Cave) Site in Idaho which was excavated by Butler in 1978.  He described a tool kit that have many non-descript plano lanceolate projectile point.  These points were found with two Birch Creek points.  Folsom points were also received from the same levels that contained these non-descript lanceolate points.




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Other points in this Cluster:
Point Validity:   Collector Type

Butler (1978), described these points which were recover from Owl Cave, but there is no mention of them by name nor identified them as a unique type.  There has been no professional reference to this type, but there are many collector type references.  This is considered a collector type.





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Age Details:
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References: (See Reference Page, Entry Number):

23, 30
Owl Cave Projectile Point, Owl Cave Arrowhead