Projectile Points Net (2024)

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Is there an app to identify arrowheads? ›

The Arrowhead Identifier is a software application that includes multiple photo databases and information on arrowheads and other artifacts. The app includes helpful images, names, descriptions, and additional details about each artifact.

Larger, heavier projectile points are commonly referred to as spears or darts (e.g., Clovis, Savannah River, Simpson, Bolen, Alachua), while smaller, lighter projectile points are commonly called arrowheads or arrow points (e.g., Pinellas, Tampa, Itchetucknee) and are typically associated with use on a bow type shaft.

In prehistoric North America, they were made from a variety of materials, including antler, bone, and copper but most, at least most that have preserved, were made from stone. The vast majority of these were made by chipping various types of “flint” to shape the projectile point for penetration, cutting, and hafting.

In archaeological terminology, a projectile point is an object that was hafted to a weapon that was capable of being thrown or projected, such as a javelin, dart, or arrow. They are thus different from weapons presumed to have been kept in the hand, such as knives, spears, axes, hammers, and maces.

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Archaeologists usually identify a stone tool as an arrowhead by size, shape, and modifications to the stone (such as notches or a stem) for affixing the arrowhead to the shaft. Arrowheads were frequently made on flakes or blades and shaped using a pressure flaking technique, often applied bifacially.

Clovis points, along with other stone and bone/ivory tools, have been identified in over two dozen artifact caches. These caches range from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and Northwest United States.

The Clovis is a medium to large size, narrow, fluted, lanceolate point with a concave base. Some Clovis points show a slight narrowing at the base of the blade edges, while others have entirely straight sides. The Clovis point dates to the Paleo-Indian period, 9200 to 8800 BCE.

The most valuable arrowheads are those that are rare or have historical significance, such as those that were used by famous Native American tribes or were discovered at important archaeological sites. For example, an arrowhead found at the Battle of Little Bighorn could be worth thousands of dollars.

Native Americans used projectile points as tips on their lances, spears, darts, and arrows, all weapons used primarily for hunting, occasionally fishing, and sometimes combat. The sharp point and edges of the projectile point, when propelled with sufficient force, penetrated the hide of an animal.

What are fluted projectile points? ›

Fluted points are quite rare in the Colorado archaeological record, but their importance to understanding the people of the New World is fundamental. The “flute” of a fluted point is the groovelike flaking scar intentionally created by a flintknapper by removing a flake from the base of a spear point.

Although any objects in motion through space are projectiles, they are commonly found in warfare and sports (for example, a thrown baseball, kicked football, fired bullet, shot arrow, stone released from catapult).

The Kirk Corner Notched point has a large triangular blade with a straight base, corner notches, and serrated edges. The Kirk Corner Notched point dates to the Early Archaic period, 7400 to 6500 BCE. Coe (1964) noted that this type appears to have evolved from the earlier Palmer type.

Arrowheads can be as much as 14,000 years old, and when someone today finds one, it's likely that he or she is the first person since the original maker to touch it! Holding your first arrowhead can be the beginning of an exciting, lifelong hobby of collecting and learning about a common Native American tool.

In the Americas, obsidian tools found at the site of Santa Isabel Ixtapan, Mexico, have been associated with a mammoth skeleton. Radiocarbon dating suggests that the tools may be as old as 10,000 years. Obsidian tools found in Ethiopia might be as old as 180,000 years.

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The Google Goggles app was an image recognition mobile app using visual search technology to identify objects through a mobile device's camera. Users take a photo of a physical object, and Google searches and retrieves information about the image.

Arrowhead symbolism is rooted in protection, courage, strength, and security, but its meaning can be applied to many other aspects of life too.