Point, Chipped Stone Item Number: 1965-30/1 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Description
Dark grey lanceolate chert point broken near base. Two pieces glued together. This point was on loan to John L. Fagan from 2/3/2005 to 3/18/2005 in order to prepare a paper for presentation at the 58th Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference in Spokane, WA. Fagan analyzed the point to determine manufacture, raw material type, and technological attributes. He concluded that the artifact appears to be the point of a thrusting spear, which broke on impact with an animal. He speculates that the wounded animal subsequently wandered into the deep recesses of a lava tube cave in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, where the point was found. This analysis is described in Fagan's report entitled, "Technological Analysis of a Point from Spearpoint Cave, a Lava Tube on the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Skamania County, Washington." A copy of this March 2005 report can be found in the object's accession file.
Geographical Search Terms
Lower Columbia North America Northwest Coast Pacific Northwest Skamania County Washington State Western United States Western Washington
Item History
- Collected by Luurt Niewhuis
What
- Name
- Point, Chipped Stone
- Identification Number
- 1965-30/1
- Type of Item
- chipped stone point
- Material
- chert stone
- Manufacturing Technique
- flaked, bifacially flaked and lanceolate
- Overall
- length 11.0 cm, width 2.0 cm, height 0.0 cm, diameter 0.0 cm, circumference 0.0 cm, weight 13.2 g
Who
- Field Collector
- Luurt Niewhuis
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Accession Number
- 1965-30
- Collection
- Burke Museum Archaeology Collection
- Object Count
- 2
- Object Category
- Stone
- Object Sub Category
- Stone, Chipped