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Type Guides
Original identification guides for the most commonly found and searched North American point types — what each one looks like, when it was made, where it turns up, and how to tell it from its look-alikes. Facts follow the published type literature. For longer reads on the science and the market, see our articles.
50 guides25 with licensed photos
Agate Basin
10,550 - 9,350 B.P.

Beaver Lake Auriculate
10,500 - 9,500 B.P.

Clovis Fluted
15,000 - 10,000 B.P.
Cumberland Fluted
11,000 - 9,000 B.P.

Dalton
10,500 - 8,500 B.P.

Folsom Fluted
10,900 - 9,500 B.P.
Hardaway Side Notch
10,500 - 9,000 B.P.
Plainview
10,000 - 9,000 B.P.
Quad
10,500 - 9,900 B.P.

Scottsbluff
9,250 - 8,850 B.P.

Adena Stemmed
3,500 - 1,300 B.P.
Afton
5,000 - 3,000 B.P.
Benton Stemmed
6,000 - 4,000 B.P.

Big Sandy Side Notch
10,000 - 8,000,B.P.

Brewerton Side Notch
5,000 - 4,000 B.P.

Elko Corner Notch
3,500 - 1,400 B.P.
Etley Stemmed
4,100 - 2,500 B.P.
Eva Barbed
7,500 - 6,000 B.P.
Gary Stemmed
3,500 - 1,900 B.P.
Gatecliff Stemmed
5,000 - 3,000 B.P.

Guilford Round Base
6,200 - 5,000 B.P.
Hardin Stemmed
10,500 - 7,500 B.P.
Harrison Turkeytail
4,000 - 2,500 B.P.

Kirk Corner Notched
9,500 - 8,500 B.P.

Lamoka Stemmed
5,500 - 3,500 B.P.

LeCroy Bifurcated
8,500 - 7.800 B.P.

Lost Lake Corner Notch
9,500 - 8,500 B.P.
Montell Split Stem
3,000 - 1,000 B.P.

Orient Fishtail
3,200 - 2,600 B.P.

Otter Creek
6,000 - 4,300 B.P.
Palmer Corner Notch
9,500 - 8,500 B.P.
Pedernales
3,000 - 2,000 B.P.

Pickwick Stemmed
6,000 - 3,500 B.P.
Pine Tree Corner Notched
9,500 - 8,500 B.P.

Savannah River
5,000 - 3,000 B.P.

Snyders
2,500 - 1,500 B.P.

St. Charles Corner Notch
10,000 - 8,000 B.P.

Susquehanna Broadspear
3,700 - 2,700 B.P.

Thebes
10,000 - 8,000 B.P.
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