Type Guides

Projectile Point 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.

Paleo

Archaic

Adena Stemmed3,500 - 1,300 B.P. · Late Archaic to Woodland Afton5,000 - 3,000 B.P. · Late Archaic Benton Stemmed6,000 - 4,000 B.P. · Middle Archaic Big Sandy Side Notch10,000 - 8,000,B.P. · Early Archaic Brewerton Side Notch5,000 - 4,000 B.P. · Middle to Late Archaic Elko Corner Notch3,500 - 1,400 B.P. · Late to Transitional Archaic Etley Stemmed4,100 - 2,500 B.P. · Middle to Late Archaic Eva Barbed7,500 - 6,000 B.P. · Early Archaic Gary Stemmed3,500 - 1,900 B.P. · Late Archaic to Early Woodland Gatecliff Stemmed5,000 - 3,000 B.P. · Middle to Late Archaic Guilford Round Base6,200 - 5,000 B.P. · Middle Archaic Hardin Stemmed10,500 - 7,500 B.P. · Early Archaic Harrison Turkeytail4,000 - 2,500 B.P. · Late Archaic to Early Woodland Kirk Corner Notched9,500 - 8,500 B.P. · Early Archaic Lamoka Stemmed5,500 - 3,500 B.P. · Middle to Late Archaic LeCroy Bifurcated8,500 - 7.800 B.P. · Early Archaic Lost Lake Corner Notch9,500 - 8,500 B.P. · Early Archaic Montell Split Stem3,000 - 1,000 B.P. · Late to Transitional Archaic Orient Fishtail3,200 - 2,600 B.P. · Late Archaic to Early Woodland Otter Creek6,000 - 4,300 B.P. · Middle to Late Archaic Palmer Corner Notch9,500 - 8,500 B.P. · Early Archaic Pedernales3,000 - 2,000 B.P. · Transitional Archaic Pickwick Stemmed6,000 - 3,500 B.P. · Middle to Late Archaic Pine Tree Corner Notched9,500 - 8,500 B.P. · Early Archaic Savannah River5,000 - 3,000 B.P. · Middle to Late Archaic Snyders2,500 - 1,500 B.P. · Late Archaic to Woodland St. Charles Corner Notch10,000 - 8,000 B.P. · Early Archaic Susquehanna Broadspear3,700 - 2,700 B.P. · Late Archaic to Early Woodland Thebes10,000 - 8,000 B.P. · Early Archaic

Woodland

Hopewell2,100 - 1,700 B.P. · Woodland Madison Triangle1,100 - 300 B.P. · Late Woodland to Mississippian Meadowood3,300 - 2,700 B.P. · Early Woodland Scallorn Corner Notch1,300 - 500 B.P. · Late Woodland to Mississippian

Mississippian & later

Cahokia Side Notch1,100 - 500 B.P. · Mississippian Levanna Triangle1,300 - 600 B.P. · Mississippian Washita800 - 400 B.P. · Mississippian

Other periods

Cottonwood Triangular900 - 200 B.P. · Developmental to Historic Desert Side Notch800 - 200 B.P. · Late Prehistoric to Historic Morrow Mountain7,100 - 6,700 B.P.Perdiz1,000 - 500 B.P. · Late Prehistory

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