Arrowhead type
Cottonwood Leaf Point
Cottonwood Leaf900 - 200 B.P.Developmental to Historic7 reference photos
Key facts
- Age
- 900 - 200 B.P.
- Cultural period
- Developmental to Historic
- Culture
- Fremont, Paiute, Cohonina, Luiseno Chumash, Cultures
- Size
- Small
- Shape
- Ovoid
- Glacial period
- Medieval Warm to Little Ice Age
More from the Developmental, Historic periods
Description
This artifact exhibits a slender, ovoid morphology, characterized by a compressed cross-sectional profile. The blade's curvature is distinctive, displaying an excurvate shape that converges at the apex and then recurves towards the base. A notable feature of this point type is the frequent presence of serrations along the blade's edge. The basal margin varies in shape, ranging from a straight alignment to a gently convex outline. The flaking pattern observed on this specimen is random, lacking a discernible or systematic arrangement of flake scars.
Size
The arrowheads exhibit a range of dimensions, with overall lengths spanning 11 to 32 millimeters, widths varying from 6 to 15 millimeters, and an average thickness of 4 millimeters.
Distribution
This type is distributed across the Great Basin, Colorado Plateau, the Southwest Region and California. Occurrences have been documented in northern Baja California and northwestern Mexico
Additional information
More information needed.
Identified by
- Named by
- Edward Lanning
- Year
- 1963
- Type site
- Cottonwood Site, Inyo County, California
Similar types
Types that are easy to confuse with the Cottonwood Leaf point.
- Canalino
- Catan
- Cascade
- Datil
- Gold Hill
- Malaga Cove
- Padre
- Pelona
- Trojan
Other types in this cluster
- Cottonwood
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