ANTH 3650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Port Au Choix, Old Copper Complex, Maritime Archaic
29 Oct 2012
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Flaking: usually using antler, pressing down on projectile point, if flakes moved from hor- izontal direction making a pattern. Ripple flaking" ; makes a ripple like look. Fluting: different technique, edges alone sides, looks decorated. Removing of the flakes, very fragile, expertise required. Longer the flute, the more difficult to remove it, Parts of the point; platform (flat area bottom) to core, arrow part. Removing central core, allows projectile point to be smoothly attached. Projectile, one purpose, to hunt large game: paleo-indial period (12,000 - 5000 bc, climatic and ecological conditions, llano-folsom and plano combined, clovis culture - clovis points - how made, social organization during this period. In canada, up til over 5,000 years ago, was mostly covered in ice sheet. Makes evidence far and few between, much in the americas: old crow - yukon nwt. People living quite close to ice sheets.
