Virtual Mystery Report Group 2
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Virtual Mystery Report Group 2
Cassandra Bono, Cassandra Costa, Tamara Kassem, Olivia Vieira
The artifact displayed is a called a fluted projectile point made form Attica chert, a very
specific type of stone. This artifact can be categorized by a distinct attribute, the flute, which is a
longitudinal groove that is normally found on both sides of the point and extending form the base
of the tip (Sellet, 2004, page 1553). There are two classified types of these fluted points which
are Clovis and Folsom. This artifact was found in the Mueller-Keck site, which is located in
southwestern Illinois. The Muller-Keck site was actually two sites located very close together
which revealed very similar artifacts, including the fluted point. Fluted projectile points come
from the culture period of the Paleoindians, which roamed the planet 13 000 years ago.
Paleoindians are the ancestors to all First Nations and Indigenous people in Northern America.
The fluted points’ main purpose was for hunting animals, used as a projectile point, where the
Paleoindians would attach this tool to the end of a stick to create a spear to hunt for their prey,
like the megafauna, which was a large animal in the time of the Paleoindians. The Paleoindians’
projectile point made archaeologists very interested in the artifact due to the intrinsic beauty and
also, the high degree of craftsmanship that the Paleoindians had to craft in order to make these
projectile points (Sellet, 2004, page 1553). Fluted projectile points are very thin pieces of stone
that can break very easily which shows the skill of the Paleoindians for being able to craft and
wield this tool without damaging them. The fluted point has more than just a hunting purpose,
and it is proposed that the location and variation of this artifact, may argue about when and
where these people have arrived, the technological organization, subsistence strategies, and also
their religious beliefs (Faught, 1998, page 165).
Bibliography
Faught, D. G. (1998). The Distribution of Fluted Paleoindian Projectile Points: Update 1998. Archaeology of Eastern North America, 26
, 163-187.
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Sellet, F. (2004). Beyond the Point: Projectile Manufacture and Behavioural Inference. Journal of Archaeological Science , 31
(11), 1553-1566. Retrieved from Journal of Archaelogical Science.
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