Savannah River spearhead

[kbs2244]

From today’s news page.

http://www.gazette.net/stories/08062008 ... 2456.shtml


“So far, one of the most significant finds has been a Savannah River spearhead,”

What is a Savannah River spearhead?

[Minimalist]

A search on Google Images came up with this.

[kbs2244]

So, not a large or as well crafted as a Clovis?

[john]

A search on Google Images came up with this.

Minimalist -

From the Windover site........

http://www.anthro.fsu.edu/research/dora ... points.jpg

Definitely not Clovis, but with a more than passing resemblance

To Savannah.

hoka hey


john

[john]

And more -

Fishtail points from the tip of South America.

http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/chapter54/t ... lsCave.htm

I knew I had seen them somewhere,

But it took awhile to track it down........



hoka hey


john

[kbs2244]

Fell’s cave is ¾ of a hemisphere away from the Savanna River!

[Sam Salmon]

I see no resemblance whatsoever between the two, apart from both being chipped out of stone.

Also a spearhead is rarely as finely made as an arrowhead.




Clovis

[Minimalist]

Definitely not Clovis, but with a more than passing resemblance

Interesting. The lower piece actually reminds me of the plug bayonet which was designed to fit into the barrel of a musket after it had been fired thus converting it from a gun to a spear.

[john]

I see no resemblance whatsoever between the two, apart from both being chipped out of stone.

Also a spearhead is rarely as finely made as an arrowhead.




Clovis

Sam -

The general point I was making is

You gotta have something to tie

The point to the spear, or whatever.

It is obvious that the tang of the Savannah point

Has been sheared off.

General point here,

- no pun intended -

These points differ from both the Clovis fluted points

And the later waisted points.

The Tang was an interesting intermediary

In the search of how to

Attach a point to a shaft.

Doesn't matter if it it a spearhead

Or an arrowhead.

hoka hey


john