Identifying Dart and Arrow Points in the Great Basin: Comment on Smith Et Al.'s "Points in Time: Direct Radiocarbon Dates on Great Basin Projectile Points". Issue 3 (July 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hockett, Bryan; Hildebrandt, William R.; King, Jerome H.
• Is Part Of: American antiquity. Volume 79: Issue 3(2014)
• Page Start: 561
• Page End: 565
• Publication Date: 2014-07
• Subjects: North America -- Antiquities -- Periodicals; America -- Antiquities -- Periodicals; Archaeology -- North America -- Periodicals; Archaeology -- America -- Periodicals; Anthropology -- America -- Periodicals; North America -- History -- Periodicals; America -- History -- Periodicals; Periodicals; 970
• DOI: 10.7183/0002-7316.79.3.561
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0002-7316

Abstract

Abstract : Smith et al. (2013) provided important new information concerning the ages of a variety of projectile point types found in the Great Basin. Two of their interpretations, however, deserve further discussion. Smith et al. (2013) concluded that the Nicholarsen (or Nicolarsen) Cache contains both dart and arrow points. However, our application of methods developed by Hildebrandt and King (2012) to distinguish dart and arrow points, indicates that the Nicholarsen Cache contains arrow points exclusively. In addition, we suggest that the two ca. 6, 800-year-old "Elko-Eared" points identified by Smith et al. (2013) are Large Side-notched points.