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Some Fluted Projectile Points from Illinois

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Melvin L. Fowler
Melvin L. Fowler*
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Illinois State MuseumSpringfield, Illinois
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Fluted points, like many other artifacts, seem to be more common than previously thought. Once attention is called to a given item representative specimens are 'found in existing collections only waiting to be recognized. Smail (1951) has presented a discussion of many points of this type from the St. Louis area in Illinois.

Recently several interesting specimens have been brought to the Illinois State Museum and are here illustrated, due to their unusual combination of attributes and location. The first of these (Fig. 57) was found in Fulton County in 1924 by the late Frank Aidrich of Bloomington, Illinois. It is lanceolate in shape, WA inches long, 114 inches wide about % of the length from the base, and lenticular in cross section. Its very delicate chipping produced parallel long flake scars running from each edge to the center. The base is ground on each side and across the bottom.

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American Antiquity , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , October 1954 , pp. 170 - 171
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1954

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