Some Examples of Stone
Points.
Point come in almost all shapes and sizes. Not all of them are made
from stone like these. Sometimes bone was used. Along the coast
shark's teeth and the scales from alligator gar fish were sometimes used as
points.
A
Marcos point. This larger point was probably an atlatl dart
point. |
Three
more Marcos points. |

A Scallorn point. Another larger sized
point. |

Perdiz arrow points. You can see their
size. |
These
two points are the same type. You can tell by looking at the base.
The point on the left looks different because it was retouched (chipped) to
sharpen it after it was broken. The white lines show where the missing
part would have been. Retouching a point while it was attached to a
shaft was a quick way to make a arrow or dart useful again and avoided
having to make a whole new dart. Sometimes resharpened points were
used as drills. |