Jack's Reef pentagonal projectile point

Jack's Reef pentagonal projectile point from central New York State

JACKS REEF PENTAGONAL – was named by William A. Ritchie for examples recovered from the Point Peninsula Jack's Reef archaeology site in Onondaga County, New York. They are small (1" to 1 ½") broad, projectiles and specialized knives. They are very thin, five sided points with sharp tips. Jack’s Reef Corner Notched and Jack’s Reef Pentagonal are related and contemporary points. The Corner Notched points are rarer than the Pentagonal ones. The hafting areas are usually contracted with slightly concave or straight bases. The overall outline of the point is typically pentagonal with straight sides. The Jack's Reef Pentagonal points also appear in the Brewerton Complex (Middle Archaic) in a much thicker, cruder and larger form. A few smaller but crude examples appear in the Point Peninsula 2 Complex (later Middle Woodland). They were also present in the Intrusive Mound Culture graves especially at the Mound City Hopewell group in Ross county Ohio. Distribution includes from Missouri on the west, southward to Alabama and eastward to the coast, northward through New York and back west through Illinois and they were in use during the Late Woodland period.

Age and cultural affiliations

They have mostly been dated to within a few hundred years of 900 AD in the early era of the Owasco culture.[1]

Distribution

These points are generally found in the American northeast (New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia).[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Ritchie, William A. (1989). A Typology and Nomenclature for New York Projectile Points (New York State Museum Bulletin Number 384). Albany, New York: The University of the State of New York, The State Education Department.
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