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sembles the Scottsbliiff in that both have a central ridge, but the Eden 

 chipping runs parallel to the base. Radiocarbon dating methods give 

 an average age of 9,524 plus or minus 450 years for charcoal associated 

 with Scottsbluff points. 



Plainvieio^ another type of early point shaped somewhat like a 

 Folsom, does not have the long central flute removed from its two 

 faces ; the lower edges are often ground, and its surface is sometimes 

 chipped like an Eden and sometimes chipped with larger and less 

 regular flakes. This point was named as the result of a discovery in 

 1945 by Glen L. Evans and Grayson E. Meade in a site near Plain- 

 view, Tex. Krieger (1947) has suggested that the Plainview point 

 lies somewhere between the classical Folsom and the Yuma types. 

 The Browns Valley Point may fall within this category. Later 

 studies may show that all these points, as well as a number of other 

 points made by Early Man about this same period, have a common 

 relationship. 



The Ahilene point has been defined as "a long, narrow point roughly 

 chipped" (MacGowan, 1950, p. 123) ; "the distinctive thick, base 

 flattened, leaf -shaped type of projectile point (later termed Abilene 

 Point)" (Ray, 1937, p. 193), and "are about two to three inches in 

 length, tliick, crudely flaked by percussion, and roughly leaf-shaped. 

 In some examples flakes have been removed from one side, resulting 

 in a stem beveled to the right" (Wormington, 1939, Chart II, pp. 36, 

 44) . Some workers state that the base is thinned on one side similar 

 to the Watts Pit pointy which might go back to ancient Pleistocene 

 or immediately post-Pleistocene times. 



There are a number of points from various sites in the John H. 

 Kerr Reservoir basin that fit these descriptions and resemble in out- 

 line and in chipping techniques those illustrated by Wormington 

 (1939). All have been fashioned from chert; whether flakes were 

 utilized cannot be determined since the entire surfaces have been 

 sufficiently altered to destroy any such evidence. Chipping may be 

 either collateral or oblique where the chip originates at the side and 

 turns downward toward the tip rather than upward and toward the 

 base, such as indicated by Wonnington. 



Davis (1953, p. 384, fig. 133, ^, h) has given the name "Meserve" 

 to a 



specialized functional variant of the Plainview point. These points are shorter 

 and stubbier than Plainview ; the tip is more than half the total length of the 

 specimen and the tapering tip edges made an angle with the parallel basal 

 edges. The tip edges are unifacially bevelled for their full length, the bevel 

 being on the right edge of the face when the tip is upward. This alternate 

 unifacial beveling produces a rhomboidal cross section near the tip. Fine, ir- 

 regular, unifacial flaking is visible on the beveled tip edges suggesting that 

 these 'points' were used for scraping or boring. . . . Similar points have been 



