November 1999 edition
PROJECTILE POINT TYPES
Neverending DRAFT Bibliography
INTRODUCTION: This bibliography began with an internet message from Hugh Jarvis to the Arch-L list in the summer of 1994 with about a dozen references, and I became compulsive. These references include some from the "grey market"... (i.e. tend to have prices listed but also can be good for type coverage). The collectors books with prices are also valuable aids for the archaeologist prosecuting an ARPA case in establishing commercial value. In order to provide some contextual framework, references are included which focus on: breakage, dating, descriptive systems, fluting, form, function, hafting, measurements, notching, and reshaping. This bibliography references at least 6 Ph.D.Dissertations and 13 Master's Thesis'. It also includes references on prehistoric and historic projectile points made from copper and iron. As a good cautionary reminder "Scholars...... should not be enslaved by static typology" (Wilke & Flenniken, 1991).
Some locations of projectile point information on the internet are included as
appendix A at the end of this bibliography.
Adair, L., and E. J. Sims
1970 Rockport Variety, Harpeth River Point. Tennessee Archaeologist
26(2):23-29.
Agenbroad, L. D.
1967 The Distribution of Fluted Points in Arizona. The Kiva 32(4):113-120.
Agogino, George A.
1961 A New Point Type From Hell Gap Valley, Eastern Wyoming.
American Antiquity 26(4):558-560.
Agogino, George A.
1985 The Hell Gap Point: a Twenty-Year Evaluation. Bulletin of the Central
Texas Archeological Society 10:110-116.
Agogino, George A., and Phillip Shelley
1987 Alligator Gar Scales as Possible Points. The Chesopiean 25(2):9-10.
Ahler, Stanley A.
1971 Projectile Point Form and Function at Rodgers Shelter, Missouri.
Missouri Archaeological Society Research Series No.8. Columbia.
Ahler, Stanley A.
1987 Putu: A Fluted Point Site in Alaska. Simon Fraser University
Publication No. 17. Archaeology Press, Simon Fraser University,
Burnaby.
Ahler, Stanley A.
1992 Use-Phase Classification and Manufacturing Technology in Plains Village
Arrowpoints. In: Piecing Together the Past: Applications of Refitting
Studies in Archaeology. BAR International Series 578. Oxford: B.A.R.,
36-62.
Ainsworth, Peter W.
1987 Comments on Austin's "Discovery" of Biface Notching Flakes.
Lithic Technology 16(2-3):56-58
Alexander, H.L.
1974 The Association of Aurignacoid Elements with Fluted Point Complexes
in North America. In International Conference on the Prehistory and
Paleoecology of Western North America Arctic and Subarctic, edited by
C. Raymond and P. Schlederman, pp. 21-32, University of Calgary
Archaeological Association, Calgary, Alberta.
Allely, Steven
1975 A Clovis Point From the Mohawk River Valley, Western Oregon. In:
Archaeological Studies in the Willamette Valley, Oregon, C. Melvin
Aikens, editor. University of Oregon Anthropological Papers
8:549-552. Eugene.
Allen, Ralph
1989 Boggy Branch II Point. Central States Archaeological Journal
36(2):99.
Anderson, A.D., and J.A. Tiffiny
1972 Rummels-Maske: A Clovis Find-Spot in Iowa. Plains Anthropologist
17:55-59.
Anderson, David G.
1990 A North American paleoindian Projectile Point Database.
Current Research in the Pleistocene 7:67-69.
Anderson, David G., and Michael K. Faught
1998 The Distribution of Fluted Paleoindian Projectile Points: Update 1998.
The Archaeology of Eastern North America 26:163-187.
Anderson, Peggy
1984 Buffalo River Cache. Central States Archaeological Journal 31(1):19.
Anderson, Son
1987 American Indian Point Types of North Florida, South Alabama,
and South Georgia. Privately published by the author.
Anderson, Son and Doug Puckett
1984 Field Guide to Point Types of the State of Florida. Privately
Published. Son Anderson, Route One, Box 77A, Riverview, AL 36872
{booklet, limited coverage but good considering; poor photos}
Arthur, G. W.
1962 Notes on Indented Base Projectile Points Associated With Late
Plains Materials in South Central Montana. Archaeology in Montana
4(3):8-9.
Austin, Robert J.
1986 The Experimental Reproduction and Archaeological Occurrence of
Biface Notching Flakes. Lithic Technology 15(3):96-100.
Avey, M.G.
1990 Fluted Point Occurrences in Washington State. Manuscript on file,
State Historic Preservation Office, Olympia.
Ayers, J. E.
1966 A Clovis Point from the Kayenta, Arizona Area. Plateau
28(4):76-78. Flagstaff.
Ayers, J.E.
1970 Two Clovis Fluted Points From Southern Arizona. The Kiva 35(3):121-124.
Baerreis, David A., and R.A. Hornseth
1948 Measurement in Projectile Point Description: A Preliminary
Statement. Plains Archeological Conference News Letter 1(4):62-65.
(reprinted 1961).
Baerreis, David A., J.A. Freeman, and J.V. Wright
1958 The Contracting Stem Projectile Point in Eastern Oklahoma.
Oklahoma Anthropological Society Bulletin 6:61-81.
Bacon, William S.
1977 Projectile Point Typology: The Basic Base. Archaeology of Eastern
North America 5:107-122.
Baker, William S., and Clarence H. Webb
1976 Catahoula Type Projectile Points. Louisiana Archaeology 3:225-251.
Baker, Winston S.,
1995 Flaked Stone Projectiles, Tools and Ceremonials From Southeastern
United States. Solvo Corporation, Eastaboga, Alabama.
Bamforth, Douglas B.
1991 Flintknapping Skill, Communal Hunting and Paleoindian Projectile
Point Typology. Plains Anthropologist 36(137):309-322.
Banks, Alan
1978 Indians of the Upper Current River. Self-published. Alan Banks,
Eminence, MO 65466. {localized, ie Upper Current River area,
Shannon County Missouri}
Barbour, Erwin Hinckley, and C.Bertrand Schultz
1932 The Scottsbluff Bison Quarry and Its Artifacts. Nebraska State
Museum Bulletin 34(1):283-286. Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln.
Barlow, William L.
1967 Campbell County Projectile Points. The Wyoming Archaeologist
10(4):2-3.
Basa, Louise
1982 Fluted Points in Vermont. Archaeology In Eastern North America
10:42-43.
Bauman, Jerry L.
1989 A Brass Arrowpoint From San Patricio County, Texas. Journal of
the Southern Texas Archaeological Association La Tierra 16(4):25-28.
Baumhoff, Martin A., and J.S. Byrnes
1959 Desert Side-Notched Points as a Time Marker in California.
Report of the University of California Archaeology Survey 48:32-65.
Bayham, Frank E.
1986 Projectile Point Classification and Middle Archaic Stratigraphic
Relationships in the Picacho Area. IN: Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers
of South-Central Arizona: The Picacho Reservoir Archaic Project. Frank
E. Bayham, P.H. Morris, and M.S. Shakley, eds. Arizona State
University Anthropological Field Studies 13:217-246. Tempe.
Bedwell, Stephen F.
1966 A Descriptive Analysis of Side Notch Points from the State of Oregon.
M.A. Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon,
Eugene.
Bedwell, Stephen F.
1973 Classification of Projectile Points. IN Fort Rock Basin Prehistory
and Environment pp. 71-101. University of Oregon Books, Eugene.
Behm, J.
1985 Identification and Analysis of Stylistic Variation in Hardin
Barbed Points. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology,
University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Bell, Robert E.
1958 The Scottsbluff Projectile Point. Oklahoma Anthropological Society
Newsletter 6(8):3-4.
Bell, Robert E.
1958 Guide to the Identification of Certain American Indian Projectile
points. Special Bulletin 1, Oklahoma Anthropological Society.
Bell, Robert E.
1960 Guide to the identification of Certain American Indian Projectile
Points. Special Bulletin 2, Oklahoma Anthropological Society.
Bell, Robert E.
1960 Evidence of a Fluted Point Tradition in Ecuador. American
Antiquity 26(1):102-106.
Bell, Robert E., and Roland Scott Hall
1953 Selected Projectile Point Types of the United States.
Bulletin of the Oklahoma Anthropological Society 1:1-16.
Bergman, Christopher A., and Mark H. Newcomer
1983 Flint Arrowhead Breakage: Examples from Ksar Akil, Lebanon.
Journal of Field Archaeology 10:238-243.
Bettinger, Robert L.
1978 Humbolt Basal-notched Bifaces as Time Markers in the Western Great
Basin. Tebiwa 10:1-7. Journal of the Idaho State Museum, Pocatello.
Bettinger, Robert L., James F. O'Connell, and David Hurst Thomas.
1991 Projectile Points as Time Markers in the Great Basin. American
Anthropologist 93(1):166-173. March. [In the same issue, Wilke and
Flenniken rebut this article.]
Bettinger, Robert L., and Jelmer Eerkens
1999 Point Typologies, Cultural Transmission, and the Spread of Bow-and -Arrow
Technology in the Prehistoric Great Basin. American Antiquity 64(2):231-242.
Bienenfeld, P., and W. Andrefsky, Jr.
1984 Projectile Point Life Cycles and Use-Resharpening Analysis. Paper
presented at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Society for American
Archaeology, Portland.
Billeck, William T.
1998 Fluted Point Distribution in the Loess Hills of Southwestern Iowa.
Plains Anthropologist 43(166):401-409.
Binford, Lewis R.
1963 A Proposed Attribute List for the Description and Classification of
Projectile Points. In: Miscellaneous Studies in Typology and
Classification, Anthropological Papers 19:193-221. Museum of
Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Bird, Junius B.
1969 A Comparison of South Chilean and Ecuadorian "fishtail" Projectile
Points. The Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers 40:52-71. Berkeley.
Bird, Junius, and Richard Cooke
1978 The Occurrence in Panama of Two Types of Paleo-Indian Projectile Points.
In: Early Man in America From a Circum-Pacific Perspective. Alan L.
Bryan, editor. University of Alberta, Department of Anthropology
Occasional Paper 1:263-272. Edmonton.
Blanke, S.B.
1978 Analysis of Variation in Point Morphology as a Strategy in
Reconstruction of the Culture History of an Archaeologicaly Disturbed
Area. Ph.D. Dissertation, Boston University.
Boldurian, A.T., P.T. Fitzgibbons, and P.H. Shelley
1985 Fluting Devices in the Folsom Tradition: Patterning in Debitage
Formation and Projectile Point Basal Configurations. Plains
Anthropologist 36:281-295.
Bonnichsen, Robson
1978 An Attribute List For Stemmed Bifaces. Man in the Northeast 16:153-176.
Bonnichsen, B. Robson, and James D. Keyser
1982 Three Small Points: A Cody Complex Problem. Plains Anthropologist
27(96):137-144.
Bonnichsen, Robson, Bruce Bourque, and D.E. Young
1983 The Moosehorn Fluted Point Discovery. Archeology of Eastern North
America 11:36-48.
Bostwick, Todd W.
1988 Projectile Point Analysis. IN: An Investigation of Archaic Subsistence
and Settlement in the Harquahala Valley, Maricopa County, Arizona.
Assembled by Tom Bostwick, pp. 253-293. Northland Research, Flagstaff.
Bureau of Reclamation, Arizona Projects Office, Contract No.
3-PA-30-00740.
Boszhardt, Robert F.
1998 Additional Western Lithics for Hopewell Bifaces in the Upper Mississippi
River Valley. Plains Anthropologist 43(165):275-286.
Bourke, John G.
1891 Arrows and Arrow Makers. Remarks. American Anthropologist 4:71-74.
Boyd, James Bryan
1997 Scottsbluff Points From South Texas and Northeastern Mexico. Journal of the
Southern Texas Archaeological Association La Tierra 24(3):39-41.
Boyd, James Bryan
1997 Arrow Points From the Rincon De Los Indios on the Rio Salado, Tamaulpas,
Mexico. Journal of the Southern Texas Archaeological Association
La Tierra 24(4):44-48.
Bradford, George
1976 Paleo Points: An Illustrated Chronology of Projectile Points.
Volume 1. Self-published. George R. Bradford, RR2, Preston, ON, Canada
N3H 4R7. or AIB ($6+$2.50) {outdated but excellent; booklet}
Bradley, Bruce A.
1978 Comment on Point #13: Eden (FE 1:1, 18-20). Flintknappers Exchange
1(2):30.
Bradley, Bruce A.
1997 Sloan Site Biface and Projectile Point Technology. In Sloan: A
Paleoindian Dalton Cemetery in Arkansas, edited by Dan F. Morse,
pp. 53-57. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.
Bradley, Bruce A., and George C. Frison
1987 Projectile Points and Specialized Bifaces from the Horner Site.
In: The Horner Site: The Type Site of the Cody Cultural Complex,
edited by G. Frison and L. Todd, 199-232. Academic Press, New York.
Brennan, Louis A.
1982 A Compilation of Fluted Points of Eastern North America by Count and
Distribution: an AENA Project. Archaeology of Eastern North America
10:27-46.
Brook, Vernon Ralph
1972 The Temporal Point: A New Diagnostic Type. Transactions of the Seventh
Regional Archeological Symposium For Southeastern New Mexico and
and Western Texas, pp. 83-88.
Brookes, Samuel O.
1974 An Unusual Point From Monroe County. Mississippi Archaeologist
9(4):4.
Brookes, Samuel O.
1974 Projectile Points From the North Delta. Mississippi Archaeologist
9(7):2-8.
Brookes, Samuel O.
1975 More Kirk-Like Points. Mississippi Archaeologist 10(1):11-12.
Brookes, Samuel O.
1975 Morrow Mountain Projectile Points. Mississippi Archaeology
10(10):5-7.
Brookes, Samuel O.
1976 Morrow Mountain Points. Mississippi Archaeology 11(1):12.
Brookes, Samuel O.
1976 A Greenbriar Point From the Mississippi Delta. Mississippi
Archaeologist 11(2):3-4.
Brookes, Samuel O.
1981 Everyman's Guide to Arrowheads, Part I. Mississippi Archaeology
16(2):22-31.
Brookes, Samuel O.
1982 Everyman's Guide to Projectile Points, Part II. Mississippi Archaeology
17(1):9-14.
Brookes, Samuel O.
1982 Everyman's Guide to Projectile Points, Part III. Mississippi
Archaeology 17(2):6-12.
Brookes, Samuel O.
1983 Everyman's Guide to Projectile Points, IV. Mississippi Archaeology
18(1):45-47.
Brookes, Samuel O.
1983 Everyman's Guide to Projectile Points, Part V. Mississippi Archaeology
18(2):2-4.
Brookes, Samuel O.
1984 Everyman's Guide to Projectile Points, Part VI. Mississippi Archaeology
19(2):46-47.
Brookes, Samuel O., and John Connaway
1975 Morrow Mountain Projectile Points. Mississippi Archaeology 10(10):5-8.
Brookes. Samuel O., Bruce J. Gray, Byron Inmon, and Angela Rodrigue.
1974 Greenbriar Projectile Points: A Discussion of Form and Function.
Mississippi Archaeologist 9(8):6-9.
Brookes. Samuel O., Bruce J. Gray, Byron Inmon, and Angela Rodrigue.
1975 Greenbriar Projectile Points: A Discussion of Form and Function.
Archeological Society of Virginia Quarterly Bulletin 30(2):97-100
Broster, J.B. and M.R. Norton
1992 Paleoindian Projectile Point Survey in Tennessee: 1988-1992. In
Paleoindian and Early Archaic Period Research in the Lower
Southeast: A South Carolina Perspective, edited by Anderson,
D.G., K.E. Sassaman, and G. Judge, pp. 263-268. Council of South
Carolina Professional Archaeologists, Columbia.
Brown, Chas. E.
1907 The Implement Caches of the Wisconsin Indians. The Wisconsin
Archeologist 6(2):47-70 (Old Series). Wisconsin Archeological
Society, Milwaukee.
Brown, Chas. E.
1921 Angular Barbed Arrow Points. The Wisconsin Archeologist 20(1):18-19
(Old Series). Wisconsin Archeological Society, Milwaukee.
Brown, Chas. E.
1930 "Turkey Tail" Points. The Wisconsin Archeologist 9(2):99-103.
Wisconsin Archeological Society, Milwaukee.
Brown, Kenneth M.
1993 Four Clovis Points From San Augustine County, Texas. Notes in
Northeast Texas Archaeology No.2.
Brown, Kenneth M.
1995 San Patrice Points Made of Manning Fused Glass. Journal
of the Southern Texas Archaeological Association La Tierra
22(3):10-16.
Brown, Kenneth M., and A.J. Taylor
1989 A Comment on Metal Arrowpoints. Journal of the Southern Texas
Archaeological Association La Tierra 16(4):10-22.
Brown, L.
1979 Fluted Projectile Points in Maryland. Manuscript on file, Division
of Archaeology, Maryland Geological Survey, Baltimore.
Browne, Jim
1940 Projectile Points. American Antiquity 6(3):209-213.
Bryan, Alan L.
1980 The Stemmed Point Tradition. An Early Technological Tradition in
Western North America. In: Anthropological Papers in Memory of Earl H.
Swanson, Jr., ed. L. B. Harten, D. N. Warren, and D. R. Tuhoy,
pp. 77-107. Special Publication of the Idaho Museum of Natural History,
Pocatello.
Bullen, Ripley P.
1951 Certain Small Triangular Arrow Points. Massachusetts Archaeological
Society Bulletin 12(4):64-66.
Bullen, Ripley P.
1962 Suwannee Points in the Simpson Collection. Florida Anthropologist
15(3):83-88.
Bullen, Ripley P.
1968 A Guide to the Identification of Florida Projectile Points. Florida
State Museum, University of Florida, Gainesville.
Bullen, Ripley P.
1968 Beveled Stemmed Points from Tampa Bay. Florida Anthropologist
21(2-3):89-90.
Bullen, Ripley P.
1975 A Guide to the Identification of Florida Projectile Points.
Kendall Books, Gainsville.
Butler, B. Robert
1964 A Recent Early Man Point Find in Southeastern Idaho. Tebiwa 7(1):39-40.
Journal of the Idaho State Museum, Pocatello.
Butler, B. Robert
1967 More Haskett Point Finds From the Type Locality. Tebiwa 10(1):25.
Journal of the Idaho State Museum, Pocatello.
Butler, B. Robert
1970 A Surface Collection From Coyote Flat, Southeastern Oregon.
Tebiwa 13(1):34-58.
Butler, B. Robert
1972 Folsom Points From the Upper Salmon River Valley. Tebiwa 15(1):72.
Journal of the Idaho State Museum, Pocatello.
Butler, B. Robert
1987 An Experimental Method of Chipped Stone Point Classification.
Northwest Anthropological Research Notes 21(1&2):69-73.
Byers, Douglas S.
1942 Fluted Points From Wisconsin. American Antiquity 7(4):400.
Byers, Douglas S.
1954 Bull Brook--A Fluted Point Site in Ipswich, Massachusetts.
American Antiquity 19(4):343-351.
Caine, Christy A.H., and T. Allen Caine
1972 The Clarence Currie Collection from St. Croix State Park, Minnesota.
The Wisconsin Archeologist 53(2):70-75. Wisconsin Archeological
Society, Milwaukee.
Caldwell, W.W.
1956 The Archaeology of Wakemap, a Stratified Site Near The Dalles of the
Columbia. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Dept. of Anthropology.
University of Washington, Seattle.
Callahan, Errett
1979 The Basics of Biface Knapping in the Eastern Fluted Point Tradition:
A Manual for Flintknappers and Lithic Analysts. Archaeology of
Eastern North America 7(1):1-180. Reprinted in 1990 by the Eastern
States Archeological Federation.
Cambron, James W.
1957 Some Early Projectile Point Types From the Tennessee Valley.
Journal of Alabama Archaeology 3(2):17-19.
Cambron, James W.
1958 Some Early Projectile Point Types From the Tennessee Valley, Part III.
Journal of Alabama Archaeology 4(1):129-131.
Cambron, James W., and David C. Hulse
1961 A Comparative Study of Some Unfinished Fluted Points and Channel
Flakes from the Tennessee Valley. Journal of Alabama Archaeology
7(2):88-105.
Cambron, James W., and David C. Hulse
1964 Part I Point Types. Handbook Of Alabama Archaeology. Published by the
Archaeological Research Association of Alabama, Inc.
Campbell, Robert, and Eduardo Mimiaga
1972 An Attempt to determine Diagnostics Attributes of Points For Horizons
and Regions. Transactions of the Seventh Regional Archeological
Symposium For Southeastern New Mexico and Western Texas, pp. 89-100.
Campbell, Robert G., and Dwight Weeks
1974 A Preliminary Attempt to Devise Local Projectile Point Chronologies
in the Southern Plains. Transactions of the Ninth Regional Archeological
Symposium For Southeastern New Mexico and Western Texas, pp. 9-19.
Carroll, Warren B.
1964 A Possible "Alberta" Point Found Near Casper. The Wyoming
Archaeologist 7(2):9.
Carroll, William B.
1978 Notes on Two Obsidian Paleo-Indian Points from Val Veerde County,
Texas. Journal of the Southern Texas Archeological Association
La Tierra 5(3):15-16.
Carroll, William B.
1983 Committees and Point Type Classification: A Reply to Hester.
Journal of the Southern Texas Archaeological Association La Tierra
10(3):43.
Chandler, C.K.
1982 Paleo-Indian Projectile Points From San Patricio County, Texas.
Journal of the Southern Texas Archeological Association La Tierra
9(3):26-33.
Chandler, C. K.
1983 Notes on Some Bell Points From San Patricio County, Texas.
Journal of the Southern Texas Archeological Association La Tierra
10(3):7-10.
Chandler, C.K.
1983 Paleo-Indian Projectile Points from Kendall County, Texas.
Journal of the Southern Texas Archaeological Association La Tierra