McWhinney Heavy Stemmed Point   Save
Raisch-Smith Site Collection
Description: This narrow, thick biface of the McWhinney Heavy Stemmed type has a leaf-shaped blade. There are shallow corner notches that extend into a rounded base; one corner of the base is broken. The flint is very pale brown in color. This piece comes from the Late Archaic Period. People of the Late Archaic were hunter-gatherers, and were among the first in the region to make metal artifacts from copper found near Lake Superior. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: A3143_000168
Subjects: Prehistoric peoples; Projectile points; Weapons, Prehistoric;
Places: Raisch-Smith Site Collection