
Arrowhead type
Dalton Colbert Point
Dalton ColbertDalton Cluster10,500 - 8,500 B.P.Transitional Paleo to Early ArchaicKey facts
- Age
- 10,500 - 8,500 B.P.
- Cultural period
- Transitional Paleo to Early Archaic
- Size
- Medium to Large
- Shape
- Auriculate to Lanceolate
- Glacial period
- Early Holocene
Description
This auriculate point exhibits a size range of medium to large, characterized by a cross-sectional profile that varies between elliptical and rhomboid shapes. The blade's longitudinal outline is generally straight, although it may exhibit a subtle excurvate curvature approaching the hafting area. The hafting area itself is distinguished by a rectangular shape and a slight concavity on both the blade and base, with evidence of extensive grinding. Serrations are a common feature along the blade's edge. The flaking pattern observed on this point is random, lacking a discernible pattern or orientation.
Size
The arrowheads exhibit a range of dimensions, with total lengths spanning from 30 to 54 mm, and an average length of 45 mm. In terms of width, the average measurement is 18 mm, while the average thickness is recorded at 6 mm.
Distribution
This type is discovered throughout the Tennessee River Basin, southern Mississippi Valley, and extending into Texas
Also found, less often, in
Additional information
More information needed.
Identified by
- Named by
- David DeJannette
- Year
- 1962
- Type site
- Stanfield-Worley Bluff Shelter, Colbert County, Alabama
Similar types
Types that are easy to confuse with the Dalton Colbert point.
- Arkabutla
- Barnes
- Candy Creek
- Copena Articulated
- Golondrina
- Meserve
- Midland
- Nolichucky
- Pelican
- Plainview
- San Patrice
- Redstone
- Santa Fe
- Suwannee
- Tallahassee
- Wheeler Recurve
Other types in the Dalton Cluster
- Beaver Lake
- Dalton
- Dalton Greenbrier
- Dalton Hemphill
- Dalton Hempstead
- Dalton Nuckolls
- Dalton Sloan
- Hardaway Dalton
- Hi-Lo
- Quad