FLUTED POINTS

The photo gallery on this page illustrates the fluted points from the Barnes site. "Fluting" refers to the (long) flake struck up the axis of the point from the base in order to thin the point. This is a characteristic unique to Paleo-indian projectile points. "Fluting nipples" and their remnants appear on several of the points and indicate that they were fluted with a technique similar to that used to flute Folsom points in the western Unitied States, see for example #4370, 4373, 4377, 4380, 4381, 4384.

References to the published articles on the Barnes site are provided below for the artifacts in the photo gallery. The artifacts numbered between 4368 and 4398 were surface collected by Mr. Wallace Hill. The artifacts numbered between 5318 and 5346 were recovered during the 1974 excavations at the site.

#4368 Not in Wright and Roosa 1966.

#4369 Wright and Roosa 1966:854. Drawing - Figure 3c. Metrics - Table 2 #15.

#4370 Wright and Roosa 1966:854. Drawing - Figure 3b. Metrics - Table 2 #14.

#4371 Wright and Roosa 1966:856. Drawing - Figure 4c. Metrics - Table 2 #22.

#4372 Wright and Roosa 1966. Drawing - Figure 3d. Metrics - Table 2 #16.

#4373 Wright and Roosa 1966:854. Drawing - Figure 2e. Metrics - Table 2 #11.

#4374-4375 Wright and Roosa 1966:856. Drawing - Figure 4b. Metrics - Table 2 #21.

#4376 Wright and Roosa 1966:855. Drawing - Figure 3g. Metrics - Table 2 #19.

#4377 Wright and Roosa 1966:856. Drawing - Figure 4d. Metrics - Table 2 #23.

#4378 Wright and Roosa 1966:854. Drawing - Figure 2b. Metrics - Table 2 #8.

#4379 Wright and Roosa 1966:856. Drawing - Figure 5a.

#4380 Wright and Roosa 1966:854. Drawing - Figure 2d. Metrics - Table2 #10.

#4381 Wright and Roosa 1966. Drawing - Figure 3f. Metrics - Table 2 #18.

#4382 Wright and Roosa 1966:855. Drawing - Figure 4f.

#4383 Wright and Roosa 1966:855. Drawing - Figure 4e.

#4384 Wright and Roosa 1966:854. Drawing - Figure 2c. Metrics - Table 2 #9.

#4398 Wright and Roosa 1966. Drawing - Figure 3e. Metrics - Table 2 #17.

#5318 Voss 1977:257-258. Drawing - Figure 4c. Metrics - Table 1 #3.

#5322 Voss 1977:257-258. Not illustrated or measured.

#5323 Voss 1977:257-258. Not illustrated or measured.

#5342 Voss 1977:257-258. Drawing - Figure 4b. Metrics - Table 1 #2.

#5346 Voss 1977:257-258. Drawing - Figure 4a. Metrics - Table 1 #1.

References

Wright, Henry T. and William B. Roosa. "The Barnes Site: A Fluted Point Assemblage from the Great Lakes Region." American Antiquity 31 (1977), pages 850-860.

Voss, Jerome A. "The Barnes Site: Functional and Stylistic Variability in a Small Paleo-indian Assemblage. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 2 (1977), pages 253-305.

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