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Haskett Points, Mammoth Hunters, Basalt, Western Stemmed Tradition |
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| Added Date:
Aug 15, 2018 @ 11:30am |
| Gallery:
Zhimaa'igan |
| Price: $140.00
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Status:
Sold
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| Dimensions: 6 3/8" x 1 1/4" & 3" x 1" |
These are replicas of a Type II and Type I Haskett points. When the types were first designated, it wasn't yet recognized that a Type I is just a heavily reworked Type II. Now, we know that to be the case.
These points are chipped from fine-grained Basalt cobbles from British Columbia, Canada; I gathered on the Interior Plateau, near Kamloops on a recent trip to the coast for field work.
Points of this style have been recovered in the Great Basin and Columbia Plateau, and are among the earliest styles from that region. Some researchers have recently begun to suggest that the earliest Western Stemmed Complex points are likely contemporary with Clovis ( https://www.jstor.org/stable/20622483?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents ). In fact, some recent blood-protein residue analyses on some Haskett Points revealed Elephantid blood proteins; traces of Mammoth or Mastodon blood ( https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/2055556314Z.0000000002?src=recsys&journalCode=ypal20 ). Even the selection of tool stone for the Western Stemmed Tradition seems to be different from Clovis, while fine cherts were preferentially used to make other bifacial tools, such as crescents, the projectile points themselves were preferentially made from tough stones, such as basalt, which would be less suited for making fluted-styled points.
Given the similarities in form to Agate Basin/Hell Gap projectile points, and other foliate Plano points across the continent in the following millennia, we should perhaps reconsider our default placement of Clovis as the basal root cultural tradition for the whole of the Americas. The truth might be a bit more complex.
Just something to think about. These Haskett Type II points certainly look well designed to penetrate deeply through thick megafaunal hide |
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