Morrow Mountain I Stemmed Point

  • Summary Description
    • Small, triangular blade with short pointed stem
  • Form
    • Blade is usually broad and triangular with sides that are slightly rounded. Serration on sides is faint and irregular. Greatest width is at shoulders.
    • Base is pointed
    • Stem is short and tapered
    • Shoulders are wide and sloping
    • Size: Length = 30 mm - 70 mm (average 45mm), Width = 22 mm - 45 mm (average 30mm).
  • Distribution
    • Doerschuk site in North Carolina piedmont
    • The style is distributed widely over North America but in uncertain age contexts. Considered the classic Middle Archaic horizon marker for interior southeast US
  • Age
    • 5,200 – 4,500 BCE
  • Material
    • Major: Igneous rock including rhyolite and andesite
    • Minor: Argillite and novaculite (“Carolina Slate”)
  • Technique of Manufacture
    • By direct percussion
    • Crudely made and finished by pressure flaking with slight grinding along edge of shoulder and stem



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