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Original Items: Very Few Sets Available. Included with each purchase is a set of 5 arrowheads. We have photographed a few different groups to show representative examples of what you can expect to receive.
The Late Archaic is the last major sub-period of the Archaic and dates from around 1,500 B.C. to A.D. 700 and the Late Woodland Period dates from 500 to 1000 AD. Therefore, these arrow heads have a 2500+ year span.
Each and every arrow head was excavated in Limestone County, Alabama on private property over the past 100 years. IMA recently acquired a collection from a local of Limestone County who explained that this was his and his family's hobby for over a century.
The Limestone projectile point is small to medium sized with barbed to tapered shoulders which can be occasionally rounded and a straight or slightly expanded and occasionally contracting stem. The stem is usually long and can have incurvate side edges. The blade is narrow, triangular in outline, and medium in length with edges that are usually straight but can be incurvate or excurvate. The blade edges are unbeveled. The blade terminates in an acute distal tip. The basal edge is always concave and thinned. The stem was formed by the removal of a pair of broad percussion flakes from each side of the preform. The cross section is biconvex. Limestone points are most frequently made of Bangor flint.
Limestone points are found in Alabama and Tennessee and extend into adjacent states. The typical Limestone point measures between 38 and 65 mm long, between 20 and 45 mm wide and is between 6 and 9 mm thick. The stem ranges from 16 to 18 mm wide and ranges from 13 to 18 mm in length. The point was named by James W. Cambron in 1969 for examples which were recovered from a shell mound along the Tennessee River in Limestone County, Alabama.
The Late Archaic is the last major sub-period of the Archaic and dates from around 1,500 B.C. to A.D. 700 and the Late Woodland Period dates from 500 to 1000 AD. Therefore, these arrow heads have a 2500+ year span.
Each and every arrow head was excavated in Limestone County, Alabama on private property over the past 100 years. IMA recently acquired a collection from a local of Limestone County who explained that this was his and his family's hobby for over a century.
The Limestone projectile point is small to medium sized with barbed to tapered shoulders which can be occasionally rounded and a straight or slightly expanded and occasionally contracting stem. The stem is usually long and can have incurvate side edges. The blade is narrow, triangular in outline, and medium in length with edges that are usually straight but can be incurvate or excurvate. The blade edges are unbeveled. The blade terminates in an acute distal tip. The basal edge is always concave and thinned. The stem was formed by the removal of a pair of broad percussion flakes from each side of the preform. The cross section is biconvex. Limestone points are most frequently made of Bangor flint.
Limestone points are found in Alabama and Tennessee and extend into adjacent states. The typical Limestone point measures between 38 and 65 mm long, between 20 and 45 mm wide and is between 6 and 9 mm thick. The stem ranges from 16 to 18 mm wide and ranges from 13 to 18 mm in length. The point was named by James W. Cambron in 1969 for examples which were recovered from a shell mound along the Tennessee River in Limestone County, Alabama.
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