Clovis Projectile Point
| Object Number: | 36-19-2 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: |
Native American Voices Currently On Display |
| Provenience: | New Mexico Blackwater Draw Gravel Pit Clovis |
| Culture Area: | Southwest Culture Area |
| Period: | Paleoindian |
| Date Made: | 9000 bp |
| Early Date: | -11950 |
| Late Date: | -9950 |
| Section: | American |
| Materials: | Edwards Chert |
| Technique: | Chipped |
| Length: | 8.3 cm |
| Width: | 2.6 cm |
| Depth: | 0.6 cm |
| Credit Line: | New Mexico Expedition, E. B. Howard, 1936 |
| Other Number: | 9-4 - Other Number 72-26 - Cast Number |
Description
Gray chalcedony. Located in speckled sand one inch below contact with bluishh blay and two inches beneath ventral border of Mammoth 1 vertebra.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| Native American Voices: The People - Here and Now (01 Mar 2014) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
| [Book] Dorling Kindersley Limited. 2014. History of the World in 1,000 Objects.. London. Dorling Kindersley Limited. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Page 13 Middle row, left | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Book] Preucel, Robert W., and Wierzbowski, William S., and Williams, Lucy F. 2005. Native American Voices on Identity, Art and Culture: Objects of Everlasting Esteem.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Pages 190-191/Plate 78 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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